Analytical Interview Questions

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  • +14

    "First I'd like to clarify the definition of reactions and confirm that it's same as what exists today. Definition: Reactions provides users the ability to provide richer expression beyond 'like' Business goal: Since this is a mature product, the business goal is to improve user engagement Product goal: Bring people closer together by letting people provide more accurate sentiment to the community based on the content Personas: 1. Content creator 2. user using reactions **Li"

    P R. - "First I'd like to clarify the definition of reactions and confirm that it's same as what exists today. Definition: Reactions provides users the ability to provide richer expression beyond 'like' Business goal: Since this is a mature product, the business goal is to improve user engagement Product goal: Bring people closer together by letting people provide more accurate sentiment to the community based on the content Personas: 1. Content creator 2. user using reactions **Li"See full answer

    Product Manager
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  • +6

    "Clarifying questions Scope: Just Reels in Facebook, or Instagram too? Mobile and desktop? Goal: Any specific goal we know of or up to me to decide? Framework/Overview Strategy Metric options with pros/cons North Star Metric (NSM) Risks & countermetrics Strategy / The Why: we want to give people … Meta: the power to build community + Bring people closer together Reels: new form of self-expression / entertainment with short form video and pro editing tools Ads in Re"

    Mike Z. - "Clarifying questions Scope: Just Reels in Facebook, or Instagram too? Mobile and desktop? Goal: Any specific goal we know of or up to me to decide? Framework/Overview Strategy Metric options with pros/cons North Star Metric (NSM) Risks & countermetrics Strategy / The Why: we want to give people … Meta: the power to build community + Bring people closer together Reels: new form of self-expression / entertainment with short form video and pro editing tools Ads in Re"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Analytical
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  • "I like chatgpt for the following users Getting industry references are easy and time saving Getting recommendations is very easy Responses are accurate I use chatgpt to get feedback on content and identify gaps in my documentation or thought process I use chatgpt as a search engine and to get conscise situation based information. Chatgpt offers varierty of other tools in the explore version where similar users can create different content PRD template Chatgpt users 1."

    Shraddha D. - "I like chatgpt for the following users Getting industry references are easy and time saving Getting recommendations is very easy Responses are accurate I use chatgpt to get feedback on content and identify gaps in my documentation or thought process I use chatgpt as a search engine and to get conscise situation based information. Chatgpt offers varierty of other tools in the explore version where similar users can create different content PRD template Chatgpt users 1."See full answer

    Product Manager
    Analytical
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  • "1. Understand the "Why" (Deep Dive) - Before jumping to solutions, as a PM needs to precisely understand why users are unhappy. NPS gives us a score, but not the reasons. (0 -4 weeks) Analyze Feedback: Go beyond the score. What are Detractors (0-6) saying? What do Promoters (9-10) love? Qualitative Research:(VOC- voice of the customer) Conduct user interviews, analyze support tickets, and observe product usage. Pinpoint specific pain points (e.g., slow p"

    Vishnu G. - "1. Understand the "Why" (Deep Dive) - Before jumping to solutions, as a PM needs to precisely understand why users are unhappy. NPS gives us a score, but not the reasons. (0 -4 weeks) Analyze Feedback: Go beyond the score. What are Detractors (0-6) saying? What do Promoters (9-10) love? Qualitative Research:(VOC- voice of the customer) Conduct user interviews, analyze support tickets, and observe product usage. Pinpoint specific pain points (e.g., slow p"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Analytical
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    Product Manager
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  • +7

    "So first, I have some clarifying questions, what is Facebook lite? If I understand correctly this is a version of the Facebook application for Android, with the same functionality but lighter in terms of size. It is aimed to be used in emerging markets where the bandwidth is limited What are the tradeoffs for the size of the app? I guess that some visual elements are stripped down from the app and reduced its size Is this application exist or I am launching it The timeframe of the product?"

    Gadi R. - "So first, I have some clarifying questions, what is Facebook lite? If I understand correctly this is a version of the Facebook application for Android, with the same functionality but lighter in terms of size. It is aimed to be used in emerging markets where the bandwidth is limited What are the tradeoffs for the size of the app? I guess that some visual elements are stripped down from the app and reduced its size Is this application exist or I am launching it The timeframe of the product?"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Analytical
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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

    Product Manager
    Analytical
  • "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

    Product Manager
    Analytical
  • +5

    "Clarifying Qns: Did the watch time went down and comments went up for the same videos or are we saying total watch time and total comments on Youtube? (Total) I am assuming we are not including Youtube Live videos because those are typically live chat 1000’s of comments for a single video. (Correct) Do we know if these two could be independent problems not correlated with each other (No) Here is my approach to diagnose the root cause: Will look at some general trends first Intern"

    Jacob C. - "Clarifying Qns: Did the watch time went down and comments went up for the same videos or are we saying total watch time and total comments on Youtube? (Total) I am assuming we are not including Youtube Live videos because those are typically live chat 1000’s of comments for a single video. (Correct) Do we know if these two could be independent problems not correlated with each other (No) Here is my approach to diagnose the root cause: Will look at some general trends first Intern"See full answer

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  • Meta (Facebook) logoAsked at Meta (Facebook) 
    Video answer for 'Should Uber Eats be a separate app from Uber Rides?'
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    "Approach: 1) Clarify question with interviewer When we say "app", I'd like to confirm the app for which user. For example, in Rides, we have an app for the rider and an app for the driver. For Eats, we have an experience for a customer purchasing food but I don't know of the experience for the restaurant. Could you confirm which users' experience you're describing when saying "app"? Let's say rider/customer purchasing food. Also is this a situation prior to launch of Uber Eats, wh"

    Michelle D. - "Approach: 1) Clarify question with interviewer When we say "app", I'd like to confirm the app for which user. For example, in Rides, we have an app for the rider and an app for the driver. For Eats, we have an experience for a customer purchasing food but I don't know of the experience for the restaurant. Could you confirm which users' experience you're describing when saying "app"? Let's say rider/customer purchasing food. Also is this a situation prior to launch of Uber Eats, wh"See full answer

    Analytical
    Product Strategy
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  • "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

    Product Manager
    Analytical
  • +8

    "I will start with making sure that I have a clear understanding of Medium and how it works. I will ask the interviewer to fill in any gaps in my knowledge of Medium. Medium is a platform for novice, and professional writers to express/share their opinions readers to read about subjects that matter to them the platform has been running for some time (6-7 years), so it is relatively mature (this confirms that Medium has found a product-market fit) Here is my high-level structure for answeri"

    Rachita D. - "I will start with making sure that I have a clear understanding of Medium and how it works. I will ask the interviewer to fill in any gaps in my knowledge of Medium. Medium is a platform for novice, and professional writers to express/share their opinions readers to read about subjects that matter to them the platform has been running for some time (6-7 years), so it is relatively mature (this confirms that Medium has found a product-market fit) Here is my high-level structure for answeri"See full answer

    Analytical
  • "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

    Product Manager
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  • +7

    "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

    Product Manager
    Analytical
  • +15

    "Clarifying Questions/Statements: Clarify understanding of Fundraisers: My answer: product that lets users create fundraisers for a particular cause, and invite/share it with other users to donate to that cause. Usually set for a certain target donation amount to be met, and a timeframe for which a user can donate to the cause Are we assuming the lifecycle of the Fundraisers product today? If so, then I’d focus on engagement, since we have a meaningful amount of users on FB ap"

    Arthur Y. - "Clarifying Questions/Statements: Clarify understanding of Fundraisers: My answer: product that lets users create fundraisers for a particular cause, and invite/share it with other users to donate to that cause. Usually set for a certain target donation amount to be met, and a timeframe for which a user can donate to the cause Are we assuming the lifecycle of the Fundraisers product today? If so, then I’d focus on engagement, since we have a meaningful amount of users on FB ap"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Analytical
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    "Before diving into the Solution, I would ask a few clarifying questions. What is the scope of the fake news What type of fake news are we focusing on - Political, Health-related, etc Are we looking at specific examples or a general category of fake news When you say impact, what do you mean by that? Is it time spent on posts, the nature of the engagement (e.g., likes, shares, comments), and the sentiment of the comments? User Demographics: what is the demographic pr"

    Bhavna S. - "Before diving into the Solution, I would ask a few clarifying questions. What is the scope of the fake news What type of fake news are we focusing on - Political, Health-related, etc Are we looking at specific examples or a general category of fake news When you say impact, what do you mean by that? Is it time spent on posts, the nature of the engagement (e.g., likes, shares, comments), and the sentiment of the comments? User Demographics: what is the demographic pr"See full answer

    Data Scientist
    Analytical
  • "I would answer this question using MECE framework: Profit = Revenue - Costs. Revenue = # customers * price In case of the trading platform, this could be translated into avg. trading activity per user * avg. commission rate . Ask if there has been any recent change to Active users or their trading activities. Similarly, ask if the commission rate has been changed recently. Based on this information, you can then identify the problem and get to the root cause of this. Similarly with Costs. "

    Alibi M. - "I would answer this question using MECE framework: Profit = Revenue - Costs. Revenue = # customers * price In case of the trading platform, this could be translated into avg. trading activity per user * avg. commission rate . Ask if there has been any recent change to Active users or their trading activities. Similarly, ask if the commission rate has been changed recently. Based on this information, you can then identify the problem and get to the root cause of this. Similarly with Costs. "See full answer

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  • "Explained the charts with using Scatter Plot with Size and Color Encoding X-axis: Ride duration (in minutes). Y-axis: Total fare (in dollars). Point size: Encodes the star rating (e.g., larger points for higher ratings). Point color: Indicates whether the rating is favorable (green) or unfavorable (red). Heatmap for Correlation Analysis Why: Heatmaps are ideal for quickly identifying patterns and correlations between variables. How: Create a heatmap matrix where rows represent ride durat"

    Saisandeep M. - "Explained the charts with using Scatter Plot with Size and Color Encoding X-axis: Ride duration (in minutes). Y-axis: Total fare (in dollars). Point size: Encodes the star rating (e.g., larger points for higher ratings). Point color: Indicates whether the rating is favorable (green) or unfavorable (red). Heatmap for Correlation Analysis Why: Heatmaps are ideal for quickly identifying patterns and correlations between variables. How: Create a heatmap matrix where rows represent ride durat"See full answer

    Business Analyst
    Analytical
  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    +7

    "Great. I will start by understanding the goal of Google Photos and how it aligns with the goal and mission of Google. After defining goals, I will talk about the user actions which will contribute towards this goal. Based on these actions, we will define metrics. Check-in with the interviewer on the approach here. Assuming that this looks good for the interviewer to proceed. Google Photo - Helping users organise & manage their pictures. Completely in line with Google's mission. Thinking ab"

    Harshit G. - "Great. I will start by understanding the goal of Google Photos and how it aligns with the goal and mission of Google. After defining goals, I will talk about the user actions which will contribute towards this goal. Based on these actions, we will define metrics. Check-in with the interviewer on the approach here. Assuming that this looks good for the interviewer to proceed. Google Photo - Helping users organise & manage their pictures. Completely in line with Google's mission. Thinking ab"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Analytical
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  • "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

    Product Manager
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