"The key here is a) not to overreact to Sales bypassing me going straight to Engineering (while understanding every team acts according to their incentives), and b) communicate with all parties as much as possible to get everyone on the same page.
1) First, I'd speak to Sales and understand the feature being requested. I consider Sales to be one of the most important primary research funnels - they have direct, regular touchpoints with the client and are finely attuned to the lifeblood o"
Sachin P. - "The key here is a) not to overreact to Sales bypassing me going straight to Engineering (while understanding every team acts according to their incentives), and b) communicate with all parties as much as possible to get everyone on the same page.
1) First, I'd speak to Sales and understand the feature being requested. I consider Sales to be one of the most important primary research funnels - they have direct, regular touchpoints with the client and are finely attuned to the lifeblood o"See full answer
"Let’s talk about goals first
Goals are:
Yelp: 1 I assumed that main goal is the revenue from advertising. It PPC advertising so we want more people to click on it. 2
Keep high user engagement level
advertisers: want to keep the CR and CPS.
Let’s discuss how can we define the appropriate number of ads:
We can set up AB testing with different number of ads. We want to see if there is significant revenue increase when we show 1,3,5 ads. We also want to check the tradeoffs and be sure tha"
Sg S. - "Let’s talk about goals first
Goals are:
Yelp: 1 I assumed that main goal is the revenue from advertising. It PPC advertising so we want more people to click on it. 2
Keep high user engagement level
advertisers: want to keep the CR and CPS.
Let’s discuss how can we define the appropriate number of ads:
We can set up AB testing with different number of ads. We want to see if there is significant revenue increase when we show 1,3,5 ads. We also want to check the tradeoffs and be sure tha"See full answer
"Let's start with clarifying question -> What do we want to achieve with increased engagement?
Let's say Spotify has personalization that prefers more engaged songs/podcast to be available to new users (who have not heard that song). Along the same lines as Facebook/Linkedin/Instagram prefers posts. The more the song/podcast is engaged among users, for more people it will be visible to listen.
What users we are targeting? There are 2 broad categories of users such as creators and listen"
Aidynn E. - "Let's start with clarifying question -> What do we want to achieve with increased engagement?
Let's say Spotify has personalization that prefers more engaged songs/podcast to be available to new users (who have not heard that song). Along the same lines as Facebook/Linkedin/Instagram prefers posts. The more the song/podcast is engaged among users, for more people it will be visible to listen.
What users we are targeting? There are 2 broad categories of users such as creators and listen"See full answer
"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?
-"
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
"Clarifying
Slack is a mature product in markets with millions of users B2B platform
Expand customer base to school boards
SWOT
Technology is mature and well reputed
Good privacy practices
Threats
Google school
Microsoft learning education
Zoom
Journeys User
Users for slack - for - school
School boards 12 school boards
Primary
Secondary
High
Universities -
Remote learning / Distant educations - Incumbents
MooCs - Existing platform
End Users:
Students
Teachers
Administrators
Ed"
Hl M. - "Clarifying
Slack is a mature product in markets with millions of users B2B platform
Expand customer base to school boards
SWOT
Technology is mature and well reputed
Good privacy practices
Threats
Google school
Microsoft learning education
Zoom
Journeys User
Users for slack - for - school
School boards 12 school boards
Primary
Secondary
High
Universities -
Remote learning / Distant educations - Incumbents
MooCs - Existing platform
End Users:
Students
Teachers
Administrators
Ed"See full answer
"Clarifying Questions
What is definition of blind - people who cannot see
Is this also inclusive of partially blind - No
Does this cater people who are blind naturally or got blind due to some illness or accident - Only natural
Why do you want to build it - what is the intended goal
Improve the smartphone experience
Do we expect the users any kind of phone experience when we talk about this device - Yes, basic phone experience with accessibility features
"
Product V. - "Clarifying Questions
What is definition of blind - people who cannot see
Is this also inclusive of partially blind - No
Does this cater people who are blind naturally or got blind due to some illness or accident - Only natural
Why do you want to build it - what is the intended goal
Improve the smartphone experience
Do we expect the users any kind of phone experience when we talk about this device - Yes, basic phone experience with accessibility features
"See full answer
"My clarifying questions :
what's the impact of the bug ? / responses : intermittent, no platform stability at risk, but a feature, many customer rely on this buggy feature
what's the estimation of the user impacted ? / responses : 65% of the users
how long to figure out a solution ? / reponses : 1 week
My action plan :
delay the publish of the release in order to protect the brand identity and customer trust
talk to the big customer to explain the situation with transparency and nego"
José N. - "My clarifying questions :
what's the impact of the bug ? / responses : intermittent, no platform stability at risk, but a feature, many customer rely on this buggy feature
what's the estimation of the user impacted ? / responses : 65% of the users
how long to figure out a solution ? / reponses : 1 week
My action plan :
delay the publish of the release in order to protect the brand identity and customer trust
talk to the big customer to explain the situation with transparency and nego"See full answer
"I would always pick a specific product and make a case. Answering this question without a specific product in mind makes the answer unstructured in my opinion. For instance, I would pick Gmail as an example to answer this and structure my response.
Clarifications & Assumptions
Let us pick a specific product and structure our response - for instance - let us pick Gmail as the product that you want to analyse and make a Go / No Recommendation to Sunset the Product.
Overall Google Revenu"
Karthik M. - "I would always pick a specific product and make a case. Answering this question without a specific product in mind makes the answer unstructured in my opinion. For instance, I would pick Gmail as an example to answer this and structure my response.
Clarifications & Assumptions
Let us pick a specific product and structure our response - for instance - let us pick Gmail as the product that you want to analyse and make a Go / No Recommendation to Sunset the Product.
Overall Google Revenu"See full answer
"I will start by asking some of the clarifying questions here -
Does the interviewer want me to focus on any specific region or it's a global product -
What's the timeline we are looking over here -
Any specific problem statement that I should be focusing on -
Any specific objective that they want me to drive
Some of these questions will help to get my head straight and align myself with the interviewer.
(2 mins to jot down my thoughts )
Answer -
Problem statement : Will focus on the cha"
Dhirendra S. - "I will start by asking some of the clarifying questions here -
Does the interviewer want me to focus on any specific region or it's a global product -
What's the timeline we are looking over here -
Any specific problem statement that I should be focusing on -
Any specific objective that they want me to drive
Some of these questions will help to get my head straight and align myself with the interviewer.
(2 mins to jot down my thoughts )
Answer -
Problem statement : Will focus on the cha"See full answer
"Clarification:
Is it consumer facing or business? -- consumer
Launch is global or regional? -- global
Is this full blown launch or beta release? -- full blown
What goal does this app serve? How is it aligned with the company goals? -- AI Chatbot
Can you explain the strategic importance of the app? -- gain market share; compete with other players who are already ahead in the market
Do we have any data around potential customers/TAM with this app? -- billions of users
"
Aniket A. - "Clarification:
Is it consumer facing or business? -- consumer
Launch is global or regional? -- global
Is this full blown launch or beta release? -- full blown
What goal does this app serve? How is it aligned with the company goals? -- AI Chatbot
Can you explain the strategic importance of the app? -- gain market share; compete with other players who are already ahead in the market
Do we have any data around potential customers/TAM with this app? -- billions of users
"See full answer
"Product "XYZ" explain what it is and which audience it is serving.
Goals
Ease the anxiety
Offer the most comprehensive perspective of Cloud Engagement
Democratize Upsell Insights
Business Review Deck
Slide #1: NPS - Now, Trend & Insights + Call To Action: FYI & solicit feedback
Slide #2: User Engagement Update - DAU, WAU, MAU, Actions Completed + Call To Action: FYI & solicit feedback
Slide #3: Partnership Update - Share new cross org collabor"
Coach - "Product "XYZ" explain what it is and which audience it is serving.
Goals
Ease the anxiety
Offer the most comprehensive perspective of Cloud Engagement
Democratize Upsell Insights
Business Review Deck
Slide #1: NPS - Now, Trend & Insights + Call To Action: FYI & solicit feedback
Slide #2: User Engagement Update - DAU, WAU, MAU, Actions Completed + Call To Action: FYI & solicit feedback
Slide #3: Partnership Update - Share new cross org collabor"See full answer
"My extreme collaboration and partnership with stakeholder teams and making sure everyone in the team understands why we are building or shipping a product to customers , I strongly believe that ensuring my development team understands the "WHY" behind work and what value it provides to our customers."
Swathi G. - "My extreme collaboration and partnership with stakeholder teams and making sure everyone in the team understands why we are building or shipping a product to customers , I strongly believe that ensuring my development team understands the "WHY" behind work and what value it provides to our customers."See full answer