Interview Questions

Priyanka D. - "Spotify is a music application that allows users to listen to music, create their own playlists, share songs, recommend songs based on their listening patterns etc. Clarifying questions: Goal - Improve engagement and provide blind people with a platform to listen to music as they miss out on a lot of aspects of life. The main idea is to promote more inclusivity Same app or different - Same app Time or resource constraints: No Spotify has music creators and music listeners who are we"See full answer

Ashima S. - "What do we mean by grow the VC feature? I am assuming the goal to be feature adoption. Goal: Increase VC feature adoption and usage within a timeframe (say, 6 months?) User Segments: I am thinking of the following user segments for this problem - Security conscious users (mostly an overlap with high spending limit card users) Frequent shoppers with multiple online subscriptions (we could quantify this like >5 subscriptions or so) Potential CapitalOne users who have shown interest in the"See full answer

Dhruv M. - "During my internship at Econalytica Solutions, I was assigned to help improve internal reporting for the procurement team. The department wanted more dynamic insights but didn’t have the budget for premium BI tools or new software licenses. My task was to enhance reporting and analytics capabilities using only the tools already available, primarily Excel, while still delivering insights that would support decision-making. I got creative by using advanced Excel features like Power Query, pivot ta"See full answer

Abhinav C. - "Clarifying Questions Is it for a specific museum or any museum? To start with for a specific museum , we can expand to more museums Which region? Lets say a museum in UK, US or Europe any specific problem you want to solve? nothing specific What is the objective or goal of the app? You can choose Goal : To enhance the experience of visiting the museum and increase footfall in the long run through word of mouth / referrals Users : Museum Visitors Painpoints / Use Cases :- 1) For l"See full answer

Samarth S. - "Before we jump into discussion , few Qs which come to my mind in order to narrow the scope are: What kind of security system we are thinking . What do we want to achieve? Is there any biz goal in mind. What security related pain points are we trying to solve. What is the kind of hotel - is it a vacation rental , standalone hotel, highway motel, big chain resorts? What are the current systems being used. I think most of hotels have closed circuit cameras , fire alarms installed in"See full answer

Preyas J. - "Let's apply Porter's Five Forces model to Amazon's business. All of these are my personal opinions. Industry Rivalry - There's a continuous rivalry in the ecommerce space with each rival trying to focus on specific aspect's of Amazon's business. Walmart (price, convenience), Google Shopping (relevancy, search), Shopify (brand trust, direct buying), eBay (antiques, used, shipping), Facebook Marketplace (buy from 3P sellers). Threat of new entrants - Amazon continuously faces threa"See full answer

Rjj - "I tried solving this question and here is the recorded video for the entire solution - https://youtu.be/G_LIbTp58XA Feel free to comment here or on the video for further discussion."See full answer

Adib M. - "Useful article on API migration https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tips-successful-api-migration-pooja-nihalani/"See full answer

Nikita B. - "Mission for TikTok shop is to increase brand growth and sales. TikTok gives platform to these brands/advertiser to market their products via influencers/creators to be able to sell their products faster and users on tiktok platform(mainly Gen-z) are motivated to make inspirational based discovery of products and purchase them So main objective for TikTok shop could be Increase sales for diverse brands So, some of the metrics to consider would be: no of orders placed per week"See full answer

BePostive - "· How well the team is self-motivated and contributing overall success of the company by releasing high quality bug prone releases · Growth of their team members · Does the manager encouraging and supporting career switch based on the individual desire or passion"See full answer

Ganga meghanath E. - "I would consider building a device that could store up energy from cycling and can be later used for charging phones. Such a product can be used by people who use a cycle as a means of short transportation as well as those who go on long journeys. This would also serve as a very useful product since they won't need to carry a power bank with them nor would they need to worry about recharging a portable device before setting out. It would be even better if the device is very compact with limited"See full answer

Srinivas P. - "Assume you have a talking toy that can record voice. Machine learning is this magic that you could use to make this toy really useful for yourself. For a week - talk to this toy about your favorite color, favorite breakfast, what kind of weather you like, so on. The following week you could ask questions like today's weather is so and so - what breakfast should I have? , when should I plan a play date with my friends etc.."See full answer

Gloriose H. - "Required output in the solution not the one requested from the question. only customerid, firstname, last_name and years were required. Please this needs to be very clear. Otherwise my answer is with totalorderyear as ( SELECT o.customer_id, c.first_name, c.last_name, EXTRACT(YEAR FROM o.orderdate) AS orderyear, COUNT(o.orderid) AS totalorders FROM orders o LEFT JOIN customers c ON c.customerid = o.customerid GROUP BY o.customerid, c.firstname, c.last"See full answer

Varun S. - "Question: You'e a PM at Meta. Design a product for users to find a handyman. Clarifying questions: Why does Meta want to build this? A: Up to you to decide that, hoping to here you say why. When: No fixed duration for release. Market: I'd like to focus on a developed market, where technology reach is wider and people are more at ease with using online platforms for tasks. Maybe focus on the US market to start with. Standalone app - We will need to distinguish ourselves and create an identity"See full answer

William W. - "Clarifying questions Is there a specific airline we are focusing on here? Assume any US passenger airline (Delta, United, Spirit etc.) Why is this company interested in improving the boarding experience? To increase customer satisfaction Can you define what we mean by 'boarding experience'? The time between the passenger arriving at the gate and sitting down in their assigned seat on the plane. Are there any constraints (resources or otherwise) that I should"See full answer

Tanu M. - "Clarifying Questions : Am I the PM at google ? Yes, For which country Airport are we designing this? Lets assume its a new product so we will design it for the US airports and later expand to other countries. GTM : When do we need to launch this product? Do we have any time constraints ? Lets assume one year I am assuming why google wants to enter in this space is because it is an untapped market and google can revolutionize the market with some of the most emerging tehnologies by e"See full answer

Alex N. - "Since question asks about pipeline. I assume the question is about metrics across many dimensions not just prediction Model performance. For the ML Model: I can use accuracy, precision, recall, F1 if it is classification model. In case it is regression model RMSE is good metric for many problems. Data: ML system needs good quality data. The system has to track missing data rate. Distribution of features, if there is no drift from original feature distributions during the training. Pipeline h"See full answer

Hayatu H. - "Best practices for prioritizing customer service requests Prioritizing support requests is a key part of creating a customer journey optimized for maximum revenue. If you want to start using a ticket prioritization process that will boost both customer satisfaction and your bottom line, we've got nine proven best practices below: Respond to your most loyal customers first Tag repeat customers as high-priority tickets Automate simple requests wherever possible Mark tickets with urg"See full answer

R K. - "Clarifying questions: Can we pick any business product across CapOne spectrum? any preference? - Assume pick any Are there any specific geographies you'd like to focus on? Are there any specific customer segments you'd like to focus on? Are you able to provide any information on the market/competitive analysis? Or I can just make reasonable assumptions along the way. Confirming we care about revenue? not profit per customer? Lay out the framework: I'd like to focus on the followi"See full answer