"There are two parts to this questions:
Part 1: Why did Meta create Rooms? ( limiting to video collaboration)
Answer: Potential reasons for Meta to create their own Zoom equivalent:
Provide a video collaboration platform to employees.
Due to size and global distribution of its workforce it may make economic sense to make an in-house product that is cheaper than buying an enterprise license of Zoom
Meta already has the technology and infrastructure to do videocalls and meetings because of"
Tony A. - "There are two parts to this questions:
Part 1: Why did Meta create Rooms? ( limiting to video collaboration)
Answer: Potential reasons for Meta to create their own Zoom equivalent:
Provide a video collaboration platform to employees.
Due to size and global distribution of its workforce it may make economic sense to make an in-house product that is cheaper than buying an enterprise license of Zoom
Meta already has the technology and infrastructure to do videocalls and meetings because of"See full answer
"Clarifying questions:
I assume we're focused on the consumer side of this?
** Yes
I am assuming post booking begins immediately after booking a ticket and ends when the user leaves the airport at their destination. Does that sound right?
** Yes
Goals:
United Airlines wants to get its passengers to their destination seamlessly, safely, and on time.
Users:
I think about user groups in 3 main buckets.
1) 24 hours following booking
2) >24 following booking through 24 hours before boarding
"
Steven M. - "Clarifying questions:
I assume we're focused on the consumer side of this?
** Yes
I am assuming post booking begins immediately after booking a ticket and ends when the user leaves the airport at their destination. Does that sound right?
** Yes
Goals:
United Airlines wants to get its passengers to their destination seamlessly, safely, and on time.
Users:
I think about user groups in 3 main buckets.
1) 24 hours following booking
2) >24 following booking through 24 hours before boarding
"See full answer
"Background
A. Objective
Lyft has a presence in Toledo, Ohio. At our current revenue per ride of $6, we can match 60% consumers requesting a ride with a driver. Our goal is to maximize net revenues in the next 12 months by figuring out the optimal revenue per ride.
B. TLDR Summary
· With a target market of (~100K-138K) consumers, on a $25 charge to consumers, Lyft should pay $20.75 to drivers and fix its share at $4.25 to maximize its net revenues over a 12-mont"
Eshan P. - "Background
A. Objective
Lyft has a presence in Toledo, Ohio. At our current revenue per ride of $6, we can match 60% consumers requesting a ride with a driver. Our goal is to maximize net revenues in the next 12 months by figuring out the optimal revenue per ride.
B. TLDR Summary
· With a target market of (~100K-138K) consumers, on a $25 charge to consumers, Lyft should pay $20.75 to drivers and fix its share at $4.25 to maximize its net revenues over a 12-mont"See full answer
"Clarifying questions
What is Facebook Events
How does this work
Is it only desktop based or app based as well
Why Meta built it
Core idea/tenet for Facebook is to have user engagement & to build everything around it. While people continue to interact with Facebook and create content on it, to increase the duration of engagement, having capability to host virtual events ensures community participation and making Facebook go beyond status and photo updates and let people coordinate"
Mohammad M. - "Clarifying questions
What is Facebook Events
How does this work
Is it only desktop based or app based as well
Why Meta built it
Core idea/tenet for Facebook is to have user engagement & to build everything around it. While people continue to interact with Facebook and create content on it, to increase the duration of engagement, having capability to host virtual events ensures community participation and making Facebook go beyond status and photo updates and let people coordinate"See full answer
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"Netflix is a OTT platform that streams content , TV shows, movies documentaries, to the subscriber's of Netflix. Netflix has approximately 90 million subscribers in USA alone and Netflix's revenue is generated based on their subscriptions. The user buys Netflix subscription, logs in , opens profile and opens the home page of Netflix.
1. Confirmation of the Assumptions
Homepage Definition: The homepage is the screen users see after logging into their profile, showing tailored recom"
Hari priya K. - "Netflix is a OTT platform that streams content , TV shows, movies documentaries, to the subscriber's of Netflix. Netflix has approximately 90 million subscribers in USA alone and Netflix's revenue is generated based on their subscriptions. The user buys Netflix subscription, logs in , opens profile and opens the home page of Netflix.
1. Confirmation of the Assumptions
Homepage Definition: The homepage is the screen users see after logging into their profile, showing tailored recom"See full answer
"Here's my structure:
Align with interviewer on understanding of the product and state key assumptions
Product rationale
What is the product (1-2 sentences)?
Why does it exist? How does it fulfill Meta's mission?
Who are the key stakeholders and users of the product?
Business goal:
Key Users and value
User type
User flow (high level)
Intersection of value
North Star Metric
Supporting metrics for different user types
Counter-metrics"
Anonymous Bird - "Here's my structure:
Align with interviewer on understanding of the product and state key assumptions
Product rationale
What is the product (1-2 sentences)?
Why does it exist? How does it fulfill Meta's mission?
Who are the key stakeholders and users of the product?
Business goal:
Key Users and value
User type
User flow (high level)
Intersection of value
North Star Metric
Supporting metrics for different user types
Counter-metrics"See full answer
"I think i would start by asking what's driving the strategy for testing new ad formats?
Possible options could be
Increase monetization?
Improve ad effectiveness?
Any other objectives?
Assuming that its both 1&2 - we want to test new ad formats to gauge if these are more effective and lead to higher monetization
Ground the conversation into current scenario
Instagram Reels is aa short form video platform that users use to showoff their creativity
Reels is a relatively new addition to"
EssGee - "I think i would start by asking what's driving the strategy for testing new ad formats?
Possible options could be
Increase monetization?
Improve ad effectiveness?
Any other objectives?
Assuming that its both 1&2 - we want to test new ad formats to gauge if these are more effective and lead to higher monetization
Ground the conversation into current scenario
Instagram Reels is aa short form video platform that users use to showoff their creativity
Reels is a relatively new addition to"See full answer
"Clarify: I'm assuming that a workplace chat app is similar to something like Slack or Teams, which is a web app/mobile platform for employees to securely message each other directly or in a grouping (i.e. a channel). I'm also assuming that this workplace app is for a generic company, and not Microsoft or Salesforce.
Goals: Workplace apps serve a vital connective tissue within enterprises to allow employees to freely message one another and collaborate on projects. These services a"
William D. - "Clarify: I'm assuming that a workplace chat app is similar to something like Slack or Teams, which is a web app/mobile platform for employees to securely message each other directly or in a grouping (i.e. a channel). I'm also assuming that this workplace app is for a generic company, and not Microsoft or Salesforce.
Goals: Workplace apps serve a vital connective tissue within enterprises to allow employees to freely message one another and collaborate on projects. These services a"See full answer
"In what terms we need to improve the quality? Is there any focus on any particular host/customer experience? - Let’s consider that we need to improve the customer engagement on Airbnb platform.
Airbnb has both - web interface as well as mobile interface. So, I am assuming the experience on both the platforms.
I will brief about Airbnb - Airbnb provides homeowners to rent their spare rooms/properties to travelers/visitors and at the same time, travelers/visitors can get accommodation at budget"
Anonymous Fox - "In what terms we need to improve the quality? Is there any focus on any particular host/customer experience? - Let’s consider that we need to improve the customer engagement on Airbnb platform.
Airbnb has both - web interface as well as mobile interface. So, I am assuming the experience on both the platforms.
I will brief about Airbnb - Airbnb provides homeowners to rent their spare rooms/properties to travelers/visitors and at the same time, travelers/visitors can get accommodation at budget"See full answer
"FB Vision
Why is this problem important - bad ads can drive customer churn and pose reputational risks in terms of law suits.
What is a bad ad defined as - we will exclude ad relevance. any ad that is inappropriate, harmful, and misleading.
What is the user journey >>
Businesses creates ads, ads are verified by FB team who will remove any bad ads, ads get published after verification, user sees the ads, reports if they dont like it, and the team verifies it again and if bad, removes it.
N"
Neha A. - "FB Vision
Why is this problem important - bad ads can drive customer churn and pose reputational risks in terms of law suits.
What is a bad ad defined as - we will exclude ad relevance. any ad that is inappropriate, harmful, and misleading.
What is the user journey >>
Businesses creates ads, ads are verified by FB team who will remove any bad ads, ads get published after verification, user sees the ads, reports if they dont like it, and the team verifies it again and if bad, removes it.
N"See full answer
"Start with OpenTable's goal: making reservations easier for customers. If user's are having bad experiences then that impacts the key metrics ( # of bookings), create a negative brand perception with the potential to lose customers.
Focus on ecosystem: customers making reservations & merchants/businesses each have different pain points. For the sake of time, focus on customer's experience.
Post Booking User Flow
User receives a post booking confirmation (date/time"
Danyal R. - "Start with OpenTable's goal: making reservations easier for customers. If user's are having bad experiences then that impacts the key metrics ( # of bookings), create a negative brand perception with the potential to lose customers.
Focus on ecosystem: customers making reservations & merchants/businesses each have different pain points. For the sake of time, focus on customer's experience.
Post Booking User Flow
User receives a post booking confirmation (date/time"See full answer
"I broke down my answer into Understanding the goal, investigating the current state and its challenges, prioritizing opportunities, brainstorming solutions, and selecting solutions.
To understand the goal and current state, I asked questions about the onboarding funnel and the conversion percentages. They have clear metrics to share, with the specific conversion rates for each stage.
I then identified the subscription screen in the flow as one of the key opportunities, as most of the drop happ"
Jaison E. - "I broke down my answer into Understanding the goal, investigating the current state and its challenges, prioritizing opportunities, brainstorming solutions, and selecting solutions.
To understand the goal and current state, I asked questions about the onboarding funnel and the conversion percentages. They have clear metrics to share, with the specific conversion rates for each stage.
I then identified the subscription screen in the flow as one of the key opportunities, as most of the drop happ"See full answer
"Clarifying questions : When we speak about video buffering, are we looking at long video (more than an hour), medium video, short videos and shorts? I will assume its all video types.
Is this was a steady increase or sudden one and over what time period? I will assume sudden one over last week?
Has we experienced any such issues in the past or trends? I will assume no.
Are we experiencing this globaly or for some region? I assume globaly
The KPI we are measuring is Average Video Buffering T"
Aeshvarya J. - "Clarifying questions : When we speak about video buffering, are we looking at long video (more than an hour), medium video, short videos and shorts? I will assume its all video types.
Is this was a steady increase or sudden one and over what time period? I will assume sudden one over last week?
Has we experienced any such issues in the past or trends? I will assume no.
Are we experiencing this globaly or for some region? I assume globaly
The KPI we are measuring is Average Video Buffering T"See full answer
"Clarify:
Are we talking about traditional noise-cancelling which cancels noise for listeners or we are talking about the speaker side noise-cancellation? - Interviewer replied: Both
Are we exploring to build something on top of existing hardware around Meta VR products or something in general? - Interviewer replied: up to you.
High level though process (Could be detailed with more structure):
Considering Meta's vision on building metaverse, where meta currently has AR/VR products li"
Anonymous Shark - "Clarify:
Are we talking about traditional noise-cancelling which cancels noise for listeners or we are talking about the speaker side noise-cancellation? - Interviewer replied: Both
Are we exploring to build something on top of existing hardware around Meta VR products or something in general? - Interviewer replied: up to you.
High level though process (Could be detailed with more structure):
Considering Meta's vision on building metaverse, where meta currently has AR/VR products li"See full answer
"Are we speaking of all Meta Ads products on something specific?
All of them
Meta is a social media and AI company that generates most of it's revenue from Ads on social media.
Meta's mission is to empower people to build communities and bring the world closer together.
If ads violate the community guidelines regulations that can directly hurt both Meta's mission and its revenue stream.
For example ads that include hate speech are against community guidelines and also hurts Meta's mission. Ha"
Yair G. - "Are we speaking of all Meta Ads products on something specific?
All of them
Meta is a social media and AI company that generates most of it's revenue from Ads on social media.
Meta's mission is to empower people to build communities and bring the world closer together.
If ads violate the community guidelines regulations that can directly hurt both Meta's mission and its revenue stream.
For example ads that include hate speech are against community guidelines and also hurts Meta's mission. Ha"See full answer
"You're a PM for Uber Eats. Cart conversion has dropped by 10% in the last 3 months. How would you find the root cause?
Clarify-
1) What is conversion? Is it where they complete the order after adding it to cart?- Yes
2) Has this drop been sudden or over an extended period of time?- Its been over the past month
3) Is this localized to somewhere? Seems to be only in the US
Uber Eats is a business that delivers food and various goods to customers that buy them. Its a 3 sided marketplace wher"
Pratik H. - "You're a PM for Uber Eats. Cart conversion has dropped by 10% in the last 3 months. How would you find the root cause?
Clarify-
1) What is conversion? Is it where they complete the order after adding it to cart?- Yes
2) Has this drop been sudden or over an extended period of time?- Its been over the past month
3) Is this localized to somewhere? Seems to be only in the US
Uber Eats is a business that delivers food and various goods to customers that buy them. Its a 3 sided marketplace wher"See full answer
"I began by defining Booking.com as a marketplace or a platform, matching between supply and demand, with a transaction in the middle (payment/booking process). This structure allows me to categorize potential cancellations into three main channels: demand, supply, and transaction.
Cancellation Scenarios:
a. Demand (Guests/Travelers):
Change of Plans: Guests might change their travel plans.
Found a Better Deal: They might find a better deal elsewhere.
Errors in Booking: Accidental booking o"
Yazeed - "I began by defining Booking.com as a marketplace or a platform, matching between supply and demand, with a transaction in the middle (payment/booking process). This structure allows me to categorize potential cancellations into three main channels: demand, supply, and transaction.
Cancellation Scenarios:
a. Demand (Guests/Travelers):
Change of Plans: Guests might change their travel plans.
Found a Better Deal: They might find a better deal elsewhere.
Errors in Booking: Accidental booking o"See full answer
"Overall, a successful Netflix viewing session requires that the user was able to find a piece of content that they loved watching. Now, to break this down, how we might define this:
-Time browsing (from app open to content played)
-Satisfaction
--> inferred satisfaction: did user complete watching the piece of content?
--> explicit: did the user rank that they loved the content (2 thumbs up)?
The way I would evaluate a new Top Picks ML feature would be to implement an A/B test as follows:
Te"
Henry H. - "Overall, a successful Netflix viewing session requires that the user was able to find a piece of content that they loved watching. Now, to break this down, how we might define this:
-Time browsing (from app open to content played)
-Satisfaction
--> inferred satisfaction: did user complete watching the piece of content?
--> explicit: did the user rank that they loved the content (2 thumbs up)?
The way I would evaluate a new Top Picks ML feature would be to implement an A/B test as follows:
Te"See full answer
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