Analytical Interview Questions

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

Siddhant S. - "We'll consider cost-effectiveness, environmental impact, convenience, and scalability. Here are key metrics and trade-offs to consider: Cost Metrics Operational Costs: Compare the direct costs associated with operating each mode of transit, including vehicle maintenance, fuel or energy, and driver salaries. Subsidization Level: Assess how much subsidy each option requires per ride or per passenger to remain free or low-cost to employees. Cost Efficiency: Analyze the cost p"See full answer

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

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

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

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

Anonymous Muskox - "Interviewer : How would you reduce ride cancellation on Uber ? Shailesh : Okay before I jump onto the solution, I would like to clarify some points for better understanding. So ride can be cancelled from the both the parties rider and the driver ? So which side are we talking about ? Interviewer : we are seeing more cancellation from diver side. Shailesh : From how long we are seeing this trend ? Interviewer : you can say from an year. Shailesh : Okay, also are we seeing these cancellations from"See full answer

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

Jonathan S. - "To clarify the question, we need to know What portion of “food” are we discussing? All groceries, cold ready-to-heat meals, meal kits, hot meals, or something else? Finding “something else” presents the opportunity to invent a new sector of the business that leverages Amazon’s unique strengths. That’s more likely to be a winner idea, from Amazon’s perspective and the interviewer’s opinion of you, than copying some other company’s existing approach. But it’s also possible the interviewer has a"See full answer

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

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

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

Michelle D. - "I'd approach this first with a clarifying questions geared towards fraud prevention as these are going to be important to actually finding a root solution. I'd want to take cues from the interviewer in order to then identify potential hypotheses. Clarifying questions: How is fraud calculated? It's important to clarify the metric used to know that fraud is increasing. For example, is this a percent of all customers or transactions? Is the fraud that the merchant reported confirmed fraud"See full answer

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

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

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

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