Interview Questions

James H. - "I broke the vehicles down by regions in the world. Designed a wireless api interface to sync with a database backend that linked to google maps through another service and api."See full answer

Product V. - "Clarifying Statement - Stripe has a bunch of B2B products aimed at SMB's My favorite Product - Stripe Atlas Why - it solves a real need to simplify the process and workflow to start a business and navigate through the hurdles of opening online shop in a foreign country"See full answer

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

Vijay S. - "Clarification questions - Assumption: Blind person - Generally aware about what an ATM machine is and how it works. Markets - US market and think about global expansion later Regulatory, Financial companies approval - We have agreement from the regulators and financial companies about the merits and we don’t see any kind of concerns from these companies Goal - Part of the company's social initiatives - Positive word of mouth - increase customer base Users - **Blind users with no other disabi"See full answer

Alice S. - "Did toast masters help?"See full answer

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

KittyKat - "I’d discuss definition of keywords: UPI ( service ) and what does revenue mean in UPI Assume goals - Increase 50% by the next one year Geo - India User Users to Users ( P2P ) Users to Merchant ( P2M ) Merchants to Merchant (small-scale UPI ) Picked User Segment - Users to Merchant ( P2M ) Pain points Subscriptions Tap on pay Frauds / Trust issues Upper cap 1L No Cost EMI / EMI on UPIs Credit on UPIs Spending Insights Integrations with devices - smartwatches, smart TVs, sm"See full answer

Angie B. - "Clarify the problem to ensure you understand what to improve - reactions are used to react to posts or comments. They show the reactors' sentiments, emotions, and opinions in a simple yet clear manner without using words. Business Objectives What are the business objectives that we need to consider before digging deeper? Are there specific goals that we're trying to achieve by improving the reactions feature? We want to increase the number of engagement and want more users to react acro"See full answer

Rahul B. - "Clarifying Questions: Does parking mean a parking area where vehicles have a space to park? - Yes Are we looking at a particular geography? - UK market Roadmap of the answer: I am going to look at different users, their use cases on when they would want to park their vehicle, their pain points, the possible solution for this product, the MVP of the product along with the features and the metrics to be tracked Different User Personas: Private car owners: Park car when they go out for socializing"See full answer

Christopher K. - "In order to answer this question, I am going to do the following: Ask some clarifying questions Go through some major external and internal possible causes Hypothesize and test/valid Conclusion 1. Ask clarifying questions Any particular market? Is it a US market or a new market with less than 12-18 months of full operation US market What do you mean by a given city? - Metropolitan with plenty of public transportations (subway, bus, etc), a large city with limit"See full answer

Rakesh K. - "I would like to understand the reason why the conclusion was made to even have google maps for kids, assumption here is kids are aged 1 to 5. Some clarifying questions Are the kids in this scenario traveling all alone or accompanied by their parents Kids are using google maps to let their parents know the directions (at times parents want to educate kids) Kids are helping others with directions to their destination. The consideration here is that kids would use maps for following s"See full answer

Stephen C. - "While helpful, this answer relies heavily on knowledge that you likely don't know in the actual interview! Instead, I would recommend thinking through a bit more of some of the factors you'll need to solve for, and then going from there. For instance, I could imagine thinking through: Latency Bandwidth (e.g. what is the expectation here? what kinds of data are getting sent?) Power consumption Reliability Hardware constraints (especially being on the moon) Thus, you can break down the"See full answer

Mala R. - "Fitness app - for kids waze - for turists whats app for senior citizens "See full answer

Anonymous Unicorn - "naive solution: def countprefixpairs(words): n = len(words) count = 0 for i in range(n): for j in range(i + 1, n): if words[i].startswith(words[j]) or words[j].startswith(words[i]): count += 1 return count using tries for when the list of words is very long: from collections import Counter class TrieNode: def init(self): self.children = {} self.count = 0 # To count the number of words ending at this node"See full answer

Ekta M. - " Why do we want to increase the price? How much do we need to increase? Is it tied to some kind of revenue target? What is the region in which price needs to be increased? - Say India Who are the major players in that region who offer similar services and how are they priced? Will the users switch to those competitors? What is our unique proposition for retention? Do we have any leverage against them which will stop the users from churning? Any change in pricing or anything major like terms an"See full answer