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  • "Which one I critical, is the erratic change in the delivery cycle is one you need to investigate and further deep dive into to find the root cause"

    Vijay S. - "Which one I critical, is the erratic change in the delivery cycle is one you need to investigate and further deep dive into to find the root cause"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Program Sense
  • "Even after a successful launch and long-term performance locally, app developers will need to develop a rigorous expansion strategy to succeed on a global scale. And although users are more connected than ever before, each region will present new challenges and considerations that must be solved by data-driven insights and research into the target market. This guide outlines everything you need to consider when expanding into new territories and localizing your app for new audiences."

    Abdurhman M. - "Even after a successful launch and long-term performance locally, app developers will need to develop a rigorous expansion strategy to succeed on a global scale. And although users are more connected than ever before, each region will present new challenges and considerations that must be solved by data-driven insights and research into the target market. This guide outlines everything you need to consider when expanding into new territories and localizing your app for new audiences."See full answer

    Design Manager
    Behavioral
    +1 more
  • Google logoAsked at Google 

    "Some clarification questions On a very top layer these are the building blocks of the Quick Commerce companies. Let me know if you wanna deep dive in any specific. Users - browses the catalogue and selects the items that they wanna buy. Dark Store - This is where the catalogue is stored i.e. the items to be ordered. Imagine this to be a huge super store but only the delivery executives are allowed to shop in their. There are multiple of these dark stores, when you enter your address you get"

    Ekta M. - "Some clarification questions On a very top layer these are the building blocks of the Quick Commerce companies. Let me know if you wanna deep dive in any specific. Users - browses the catalogue and selects the items that they wanna buy. Dark Store - This is where the catalogue is stored i.e. the items to be ordered. Imagine this to be a huge super store but only the delivery executives are allowed to shop in their. There are multiple of these dark stores, when you enter your address you get"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Program Sense
  • +3

    "The question refers to a very specific event: "step into the back for a few minutes, return and see a lot of people waiting"... I might try to clarify goals and scenario: Before I stepped back, there were no ppl waiting? If so, we might be talking about a very specific, even uncommon scenario, in which optimizations for the complete serving system in the long term might not be needed. Maybe they even arrived all together and this is expected behavior. Are people waiting for something specif"

    Alfredo M. - "The question refers to a very specific event: "step into the back for a few minutes, return and see a lot of people waiting"... I might try to clarify goals and scenario: Before I stepped back, there were no ppl waiting? If so, we might be talking about a very specific, even uncommon scenario, in which optimizations for the complete serving system in the long term might not be needed. Maybe they even arrived all together and this is expected behavior. Are people waiting for something specif"See full answer

    Analytical
    Execution
  • Meta (Facebook) logoAsked at Meta (Facebook) 

    "Evication Strategy: LFU Access Pattern: Write Around"

    Yomna H. - "Evication Strategy: LFU Access Pattern: Write Around"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    System Design
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  • "Clarification Are we focusing on building the product on a specific Meta platform (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp), or is this a standalone effort? Is the product digital or physical? Are we targeting internal (employees) or external (customers) users? Are there any specific constraints like funding, resourcing, or geography? 1. Narrowing Down the Problem Awareness and Education: Create tools to increase understanding of climate change and its effects. -"

    Ram - "Clarification Are we focusing on building the product on a specific Meta platform (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp), or is this a standalone effort? Is the product digital or physical? Are we targeting internal (employees) or external (customers) users? Are there any specific constraints like funding, resourcing, or geography? 1. Narrowing Down the Problem Awareness and Education: Create tools to increase understanding of climate change and its effects. -"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • "First, let's align the Airbnb homepage with Airbnb's mission. Airbnb's mission is to "create a world where anyone can belong anywhere by providing healthy travel that is local, authentic, diverse, inclusive and sustainable." The homepage serves as the primary entry point for both potential guests and hosts, setting the stage for their journey and embodying this mission. Now, for the goals of Airbnb homepage, we can consider different aspects like awareness, engagement, and ultimately, driving bo"

    Rohit K. - "First, let's align the Airbnb homepage with Airbnb's mission. Airbnb's mission is to "create a world where anyone can belong anywhere by providing healthy travel that is local, authentic, diverse, inclusive and sustainable." The homepage serves as the primary entry point for both potential guests and hosts, setting the stage for their journey and embodying this mission. Now, for the goals of Airbnb homepage, we can consider different aspects like awareness, engagement, and ultimately, driving bo"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Analytical
  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    Video answer for 'Design a website for creating GIFs.'
    +1

    "Clarifying Qs: Design meaning - UI elements, front end requests and backend system architecture GIFs = standard short animated videos of 1/2 seconds built either using images or videos Make GIFs = generate gifs from images and videos Do we want to build the system for a certain volume of requests? Do you want me to consider the scalability part? I: Assumptions 1,2 & 3 are correct, ignore 3 for now Users: User b/w age 18-45 trying to generate GIFs using images(at least 3)"

    Shwetang S. - "Clarifying Qs: Design meaning - UI elements, front end requests and backend system architecture GIFs = standard short animated videos of 1/2 seconds built either using images or videos Make GIFs = generate gifs from images and videos Do we want to build the system for a certain volume of requests? Do you want me to consider the scalability part? I: Assumptions 1,2 & 3 are correct, ignore 3 for now Users: User b/w age 18-45 trying to generate GIFs using images(at least 3)"See full answer

    Product Design
  • +11

    "import pandas as pd \# Sample data for the employees table data = { 'id': [1, 2, 3, 4, 5], 'first_name': ['John', 'Jane', 'Jim', 'Jake', 'Jill'], 'last_name': ['Doe', 'Smith', 'Brown', 'Taylor', 'Wilson'], 'salary': [30000, 25000, 45000, 20000, 35000], 'department_id': [101, 102, 103, 104, 105] } \# Creating a DataFrame from the data df = pd.DataFrame(data) \# Sorting the DataFrame by 'salary' in ascending order and selecting the top 3 lowest earners lowestearningemployees = df.sort_values(by="

    Jiggy - "import pandas as pd \# Sample data for the employees table data = { 'id': [1, 2, 3, 4, 5], 'first_name': ['John', 'Jane', 'Jim', 'Jake', 'Jill'], 'last_name': ['Doe', 'Smith', 'Brown', 'Taylor', 'Wilson'], 'salary': [30000, 25000, 45000, 20000, 35000], 'department_id': [101, 102, 103, 104, 105] } \# Creating a DataFrame from the data df = pd.DataFrame(data) \# Sorting the DataFrame by 'salary' in ascending order and selecting the top 3 lowest earners lowestearningemployees = df.sort_values(by="See full answer

    Coding
    Data Analysis
  • "Understand Wikipedia Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that gives everyone access to unbiased and accurate knowledge and information. Current products: Website - people use Wikipedia to search and pull up articles written around a specific topic Integration with other products such as browsers and kindles - people highlight a word/subject and they can pull up the relevant wikipedia if it's available. Business model: It's a non-profit organization t"

    SweetTaco - "Understand Wikipedia Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that gives everyone access to unbiased and accurate knowledge and information. Current products: Website - people use Wikipedia to search and pull up articles written around a specific topic Integration with other products such as browsers and kindles - people highlight a word/subject and they can pull up the relevant wikipedia if it's available. Business model: It's a non-profit organization t"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • Microsoft logoAsked at Microsoft 

    "Assumptions and Clarification! What kind of blind person are we talking about ? Are they partially blind? Color Blind? Can Detect Light ? Can See blurry Images? Is the Blind person an adult, elderly or a teenager? Do they have any additional disabilities? Where will this Iron be used? At home? or perhaps one for travel? Do we have any limitation of resources? Assumptions- We are talking about a Complete Blind person who cannot see anything at all i.e Zero ability to se"

    Prabhav G. - "Assumptions and Clarification! What kind of blind person are we talking about ? Are they partially blind? Color Blind? Can Detect Light ? Can See blurry Images? Is the Blind person an adult, elderly or a teenager? Do they have any additional disabilities? Where will this Iron be used? At home? or perhaps one for travel? Do we have any limitation of resources? Assumptions- We are talking about a Complete Blind person who cannot see anything at all i.e Zero ability to se"See full answer

    Product Manager
  • "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

    Product Manager
    Analytical
    +2 more
  • +5

    "Clarifying Questions: By “down”, do we mean creation of messages (activation), engagement, or both? My assumed answer: engagement How are “messages” defined? Is it comments to posts, DMs, or posts themselves? My assumed answer: DMs How is engagement of DMs defined? Is it by number of DMs viewed, created, replied to? My assumed answer: all of that Quick Product Strategy Discussion: Why messaging is important to LinkedIn LinkedIn’s mission is"

    Arthur Y. - "Clarifying Questions: By “down”, do we mean creation of messages (activation), engagement, or both? My assumed answer: engagement How are “messages” defined? Is it comments to posts, DMs, or posts themselves? My assumed answer: DMs How is engagement of DMs defined? Is it by number of DMs viewed, created, replied to? My assumed answer: all of that Quick Product Strategy Discussion: Why messaging is important to LinkedIn LinkedIn’s mission is"See full answer

    Analytical
    Execution
  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    +2

    "Estimate Google ads revenue. Clarifications: Google ads: only includes ads shown on Google search pages. It does not include any other ads such as display advertisement etc. Google makes money everytime a user clicks on an ad. Market - US Monthly / Yearly - Yearly Revenue in $ For 2020 ? - yes So to state the Q again, I have to estimate Google’s annual search ads revenue for 2020. Ads revene =( $ads clicked everyday * avg price per ad ) * 360 $ads clicked every"

    D S. - "Estimate Google ads revenue. Clarifications: Google ads: only includes ads shown on Google search pages. It does not include any other ads such as display advertisement etc. Google makes money everytime a user clicks on an ad. Market - US Monthly / Yearly - Yearly Revenue in $ For 2020 ? - yes So to state the Q again, I have to estimate Google’s annual search ads revenue for 2020. Ads revene =( $ads clicked everyday * avg price per ad ) * 360 $ads clicked every"See full answer

    Estimation
  • "Great question, give me a moment to collect my thoughts…. When faced with a situation where a product defect is impacting my customers as a product manager my goal would be to roll out a quick & effective enough solution that minimizes the negative impact on users. I would seek available incident information to understand, its blast radius i.e. the impacted users, platforms, duration, if available understand the nature of failure i.e. recoverable vs not, it's root cause and short/long t"

    Coach - "Great question, give me a moment to collect my thoughts…. When faced with a situation where a product defect is impacting my customers as a product manager my goal would be to roll out a quick & effective enough solution that minimizes the negative impact on users. I would seek available incident information to understand, its blast radius i.e. the impacted users, platforms, duration, if available understand the nature of failure i.e. recoverable vs not, it's root cause and short/long t"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Analytical
    +2 more
  • "For designing a B2B customer support, I will first make a website with customer support page design, That Page Contains Sign in or Sign up ( Using google, phone number, email, Microsoft account) While Signing up -Fill Details with microsoft account id and other details, After Sign up there will be an option - Request a ticket, Chat to our executive, Call us. Request a Ticket - Filling details of issues you are facing, attachments, contact details, suitable time slot for calling. Chat - Directl"

    Samujjal P. - "For designing a B2B customer support, I will first make a website with customer support page design, That Page Contains Sign in or Sign up ( Using google, phone number, email, Microsoft account) While Signing up -Fill Details with microsoft account id and other details, After Sign up there will be an option - Request a ticket, Chat to our executive, Call us. Request a Ticket - Filling details of issues you are facing, attachments, contact details, suitable time slot for calling. Chat - Directl"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • +13

    "Would like to ask some clarifying questions: Is it a digital product? Yes? Application or website? Geography we are targeting? Assuming it is an app. Are we a new company or startup? Do we have any tie ups with other companies to reach a wider audience? Assuming I am the product manager of this application – goal of the application is to encourage voting more questions: Are we in the election year? Nearing the voting phase? If yes, then it will be easier for us to get users fo"

    Prerak B. - "Would like to ask some clarifying questions: Is it a digital product? Yes? Application or website? Geography we are targeting? Assuming it is an app. Are we a new company or startup? Do we have any tie ups with other companies to reach a wider audience? Assuming I am the product manager of this application – goal of the application is to encourage voting more questions: Are we in the election year? Nearing the voting phase? If yes, then it will be easier for us to get users fo"See full answer

    Product Design
  • Slack logoAsked at Slack 

    "I will ask few clarifying questions to the interviewer: Is there any specific application that we are referring to (assuming B2C website/app) What are we Trading off here (assuming Requirements/Features) I will consider following criteria to prioritize Trade offs: Impact on User experience: In terms of usability, reliability, and efficiency Usability: Ease of Use, Intuitive UI Reliability: Functions as expected and produces desired results, tolerates user mistakes and prevents unauthor"

    Saket S. - "I will ask few clarifying questions to the interviewer: Is there any specific application that we are referring to (assuming B2C website/app) What are we Trading off here (assuming Requirements/Features) I will consider following criteria to prioritize Trade offs: Impact on User experience: In terms of usability, reliability, and efficiency Usability: Ease of Use, Intuitive UI Reliability: Functions as expected and produces desired results, tolerates user mistakes and prevents unauthor"See full answer

    Behavioral
    Program Sense
  • Meta (Facebook) logoAsked at Meta (Facebook) 
    +2

    "To make sure we are on the same page, this is a feature in the current FB app that would make it easier for people to volunteer? Or more broadly, the feature would aim to expand the base of volunteers. To start I want to dive deeper on the objective of the feature. Then we can look at possible users, pick a segment and outline their needs, then look at some solutions. We can then prioritize and see how we might roll something like this out. If I look at FB mission of building community and brin"

    Anonymous Sparrow - "To make sure we are on the same page, this is a feature in the current FB app that would make it easier for people to volunteer? Or more broadly, the feature would aim to expand the base of volunteers. To start I want to dive deeper on the objective of the feature. Then we can look at possible users, pick a segment and outline their needs, then look at some solutions. We can then prioritize and see how we might roll something like this out. If I look at FB mission of building community and brin"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
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