Execution Interview Questions

Anonymous Crab - "Clarify: IG shops is the marketplace on IG, where users can view items listed for sale by creators/businesses and also search for specific items or categories. Users can actually buy through shops instead of getting navigated to the original business website. Correct? Clarify: Can only sellers/businesses which own their inventory have a "shop"? Or can a social media influencer (different IG account) sell on behalf of a business? Structure: In order to figure out what success looks like, I'd fi"See full answer

Anu S. - "what is a task rabbit? marketplace connecting users with freelance labor with local demand, allowing consumers to find help with everyday tasks, including furniture assembly, moving, delivery, and handy person work Explain the User Flow in short: User logs in, searches for the services, sorts, picks and books the service the gig worker gets 24 hours to pick the request, accepted or declined In case it is accepted then it is considered a "BOOKed"gig what is the post booking experience? -"See full answer

Marie E. - "Trying to decide on if they should include a step to upload a profile picture in the onboarding flow or not? Why does facebook have a profile picture? What value does it add? User value - Connections: having a picture on your profile, help drive friending and follows. Because users can put a face with the name. And they cna also recongize people they may not immediately know from a name (or a common name) and want to friend them. Business value - Integrity: maki"See full answer

Apurv W. - "Clarify: Understanding of wallets an UPI What is failure rate here? - transaction failed Is it real time failure or successful on front end but failed in backend - assuming it is front end, real time failure. Have other related products/features experienced the same change? Diagnose (impact, significance) Failure rate = assuming it is significantly increasing Impact = customer lifetime value, # of bookings, Avg order value and satisfaction too. Users & value Seller = Revenue "See full answer

Saket S. - "I will look at the % of overspend. If we are within 10%, I would not worry about it too much as most budgets factor in 10% contingency. If Budget has exceeded 10% Threshold, I will use the following approach: Deep dive on current status: Understand % work completed/accepted Analyse Schedule/Time progress Understand Project Priority: P1/P2/P3 Resourcing: Internal/External Complexity: Technical design (Number of Applications involved/ Number of Interfaces to be build e"See full answer

Sri A. - "Success for Yelp reviews. (assuming these are standard reviews posted by customers, for a restaurant or bar or a cafe listed on Yelp. Has a 5-star calibration that users can enter and free-form text.) Select Metrics should span the entire funnel across adoption, engagement, quality, and overall impact for Yelp. Adoption metrics: Total # of reviews written, Avg reviews/ listing Engagement metrics: # reviews being scanned, marked as being useful, etc. Quality metrics: %ge of disputed"See full answer

D I. - "Is this considered to be a passing answer for a Google interview? Seems very basic and shallow, but hey.. Train the model on what? How do you label something as bullying or not. Seems like it's a classification problem, or personalization problem. Also remedying in the problem was very weak."See full answer

Spencer W. - "A YoY decline in conversion actually seems like it's not that unexpected of a finding but I think you'd need to know how Nike operates. They regularly release sneakers that are limited edition, highly-sought-after, and are sold out within seconds of release. So there are probably a lot of people who are able to add items to their cart, only to find out that the items are actually sold out before they are able to complete the sale. If that were the root cause in this question, I'm curious if ther"See full answer

Ajinkya P. - " I would ask some clarifying questions to refine my objective and know about our users? What do you mean by experience? Travel, food, short stay, long stay, dating, event, work, airport, registration? - Improve Food, Travel, Event experience, which can be a short or long stay. What do you mean by the movement to a new city? International travel/ within a specific country (designing solution for any country?) or any geography? - within a country suppose India What is our business objecti"See full answer

Michelle D. - "I'd start by trying to understand the high level north star for Stripe Atlas with respect to Stripe's mission of increasing the GDP of the internet. Example north star: Increase successfully created startups MoM, YoY I'd ask the interviewer to confirm my understanding on the following: Atlas allows entrepreneurs to easily launch their startups within a matter of only a few days from signup to receiving a tax ID. I would take this understanding and understand the input metrics towards the n"See full answer

Saket S. - "I will use the following approach for this situation: Understand Current Status of the Program: Program Goals, Schedule, How many teams, what are their deliverables, dependencies between teams Team level view of progress: Through tools like Burn down charts, Gantt charts etc. Identify laggards (lagging teams). Trend analysis for lagging teams: Understand at what point, the decline started. If the decline has started around same time, then following may be the potential issues: -"See full answer

Arthur Y. - "Clarifying Questions: What are Discovery features on IG? My assumed answer: posts of followers you don’t already follow that you see on the Discovery tab of IG. The posts consist of video clips, IGTV posts, and pics. User can browse through endless scroll of posts, and can filter by category (e.g. sports, comedy, etc.) on the Discovery tab. Exclude IGTV and IG Shopping, which can also be accessed by Discovery tab, and just focus on Discovery of users you don’t already follow as"See full answer

Kiley S. - "Measure Success of FB rooms. First I would like to clarify my understanding of the product: FB Rooms is a video call product similar to zoom in which a user can create a room and then invite people to join either with Facebook, if they are already friends or with a link or invite. Able to use filters and virtual backgrounds Now that we have aligned on the understanding of the product, I would like to think about the goals for the product. Goals: Business goals: Rooms was FB’s"See full answer

Neelesh K. - "Grow market share of Bing by 5% Clarification: Are we focusing on a certain geography or Region where market share has to be increased? – Assume - All Regions Are we focusing on a particular device or platform? – Like Desktop/Laptops, Mobiles/Tablets, IOS/Android – Assuming all What is the Goal of increasing Market Share? – Assuming new users and driving usage among existing users. Do we have any user segment in mind or am I free to choose? – Assume you can choose Microsoft’s Mission"See full answer

Rustam - "There are number of ways where an app could lose users. I would try and speak with the following teams to figure out the issue. Data Team - I'd ask data team to see if there are any drops in the existing game funnels. There could have been an issue in game design. Potentially players could have gotten stuck on a super hard level and left or flew through a puzzle that was too easy, and also left. Essentially, figuring out the progression curve of the game, which often times can lead to play"See full answer

Takashi M. - "Me: First of all, I’d like to have some clarification about this project. Me: What is the current product line design of the vending machine? Is this a traditional vending machine? Customers pay money cash or credit card, and select products and receive the product. Interviewer: Yes, that is the correct assumption. We make vending machines for canned drinks and bottled drinks. Another product line is for selling small packaged snacks. Me: What is the goal of this project? Is"See full answer

Sarabjeet S. - "Goal of YT search is to enable quick access to a video of interest to user. So success for YT search would mean access to videos that interest, and user actually clicks on one or more searched videos to watch them. It also means reduced time searching overall, with high relevance results shown for search string. Actions performed by users are: Goes to the YT site or Mobile app Clicks on the Search window to type Enters search string and presses enter Browses the list, scrolls"See full answer

Harish K. - "Swiggy could implement to increase the average order value (AOV) on its platform: 1. Smart Recommendations and Upselling: Personalized suggestions: Leverage data to recommend items based on past orders, popular choices, and trending items in the user's area. Upselling prompts: When a user adds an item to their cart, suggest related or higher-value items (e.g., "Would you like to add a side of fries with that?" or "Upgrade to a large for just ₹X more"). Bundle deals: Offer c"See full answer

Aekagra S. - "Clarified whether this drop is observed in a particular geography or with a particular demography or devices. Then moved to the analysis of any bugs or flow broken or any defects. If not then talk about any competitor launching a product or feature in a similar category. If yes then double down on that or else speak about any political or marketing campaign that's been launched or any negative news about Facebook. What-Why analysis and concluded with a possible cause."See full answer

P K. - "Clarifying questions, Before I begin, I want to make sure I understand what the product is. FB fundraiser is a platform for entities (charitable organizations) and individuals to create fundraising campaigns, invite certain users to it, share it with others and ask them to invite potential contributors to it. It is also part of the core facebook product. The approach I want to take about defining goals is as following: Define the mission of FB as a company, goal of fundraiser p"See full answer