Interview Questions

Bravin V. - "I aim to utilize hands-on activities to apply the knowledge I've acquired, safeguard the organization from threat actors, and contribute to its growth."See full answer

Catherine Z. - "Clarifying Questions Have we confirmed this was a server side issue and not client side or network related? Interviewer confirms this was a server side issue Do we have additional information on whether this was region specific, user specific? Interviewer says you can make some assumptions Introduction I am going to focus on a few potential factors and describe how they could lead to system downtime: Data Center Power Outage Software Deployment Software Bug P"See full answer

Joel A. - "Clarify: User experience improvements or revenue based improvements for the company? (Assumed UX) Can it be hardware or must it be software? (assumed I have the choice) Position: My favorite product is Airbnb. It's an app that let's people list their home for short term rental and then let's guests book those homes (or rooms) to stay in. It's used primarily for vacations but people all over the world now use it for business or even longer term stays. It's idea was pretty revolutionary a"See full answer

Laura U. - "productssold = set(transactions['productid']) unsoldproducts = products.loc[~products['id'].isin(productssold)] return unsold_products[["id", "name", "stock"]] `"See full answer

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

Kanishkan V. - "I responded with a project that I was a part of during my capstone class. I described how I used HTML, Python, and PostGRESQL in conjunction to create a functioning website using SCRUM."See full answer

Anonymous Jellyfish - "Thank you for the question! Normally, I would want to ask some clarifying questions to try to better understand the scope of the problem. Below are some of those questions & assumptions I am going to make because I need to submit an answer without getting a response. Question 1: What is Facebook’s north star metric for this exercise? Growth? Engagement? I’m also keeping in mind that because we are talking about building a birthday feature in the earlier stages of Facebook, their north s"See full answer

Kevin S. - "The question given is intentionally very open ended. As the key phrases used are "air travel" which can encompass all parts of the journey not just the airport or flight experience & "improve the perception" which doesn't necessarily require fixing the problem (although you'd hope that was part of the conclusion). In addition, the constraints of time (1-year) and resources ($10M) means you must be very prescriptive. As such I think it'd be important to ask the following clarifying questions"See full answer

Mohammad shahid S. - " Not Setting up the right expectation with users so that they come prepared and plan for application. Users should be informed in advance about the document required, kind of questions they can expect and average time they are going to spend. Inform about the money too if there is an application fee. Too many questions where users are suppose to write paragraphs Seeking sensitive mandatory information Reality is different from expectation setting Too long to too much time consum"See full answer

Mallikarjun B. - "I consider my greatest strengths to be my inquisitive nature and my ability to empathize with users. My inquisitiveness drives me to question and challenge the status quo, constantly seeking new perspectives and innovative approaches. I find inspiration in observing advertisements, analyzing their plots, and connecting them to the products being advertised. This curiosity fuels my creativity and pushes me to think outside the box. Furthermore, my empathetic nature plays a vital role in my desig"See full answer

Sean L. - " import pandas as pd def findaveragedistance(gps_data: pd.DataFrame) -> pd.DataFrame: #0. IMPORTANT: get the unordered pairs gpsdata['city1']=gpsdata[['origin','destination']].min(axis=1) gpsdata['city2']=gpsdata[['origin','destination']].max(axis=1) #1. get the mean distance by cities avgdistance=gpsdata.groupby(['city1','city2'], as_index=False)['distance'].mean().round(2) avgdistance.rename(columns={'distance':"averagedistance"}, inplace=True) "See full answer

Julien C. - "Hi, Sharad! Quick feedback after reading your response: make sure to understand what's the underlying problem: Why do users stop using the app after 3 months? Only then can you give specific and high-impact recommendations. I hope this helps!"See full answer

Greg W. - "Clarifying Questions: Is this for business travel, personal travel, or both? Are there any particular objectives that we want to focus on? Think about why Facebook would want to do this is it because they are thinking about building an external-facing travel product, and want to test it on Facebook employees first? Facebook employees work hard, so they want to make sure that their employees are taking the vacations they need to optimize performance List user types employees trav"See full answer

Garima B. - "I faltered on this question. I haven't given a PMM interview in a very long time since I moved from marketing to pure product management. I chose DownDog Yoga App as my preferred app, since I use either either their sleep meditations or the yoga app thrice a week. The feature that was introduced was Aerial Yoga (the interviewer made it as a feature) I went with the assumption that Aerial Yoga is something that needs to be driven off-line rather than online - requires studio space, infrastructr"See full answer

Rohan S. - "Honestly, I would’ve loved something like this when I was younger. I couldn’t wait till the day I was 18 so I could start investing and would read personal finance books on random topics. Clarification Questions Kids is a very broad term, is there a specific age range you had in mind or would you want me to determine that myself? > I will assume that this will start off as an application, and then later can be integrated on a"See full answer

Scarlett S. - "(This is debugging, then trade off question) WAU and email open rates can be influencing each other, especially an email opened and then clicked could lead to an active user, but it doesn't necessarily mean that they have correlations or be the only reason causing changes. The approach So we definitely need to look at each cause of Why MAU goes up, and why email notification open rates go down, then develop some hypothesis on for proper cause, I'd love to gather some info to narr"See full answer