"Feel free to download the full assignment (with screens) here: https://www.varunja.in/blog/assignment, cheers!
Expected Outcome:
Users: What do you know about the users of WhatsApp? What do they want?
Features: What features will you build?
Prioritization: What will be in your MVP and what will be in your 2.0 version?
After you have decided on the MVP:
Engineering: How hard is this to build? How long might it take? Are there ways to build a solution more quicker?
Design: How does your new fea"
Varun J. - "Feel free to download the full assignment (with screens) here: https://www.varunja.in/blog/assignment, cheers!
Expected Outcome:
Users: What do you know about the users of WhatsApp? What do they want?
Features: What features will you build?
Prioritization: What will be in your MVP and what will be in your 2.0 version?
After you have decided on the MVP:
Engineering: How hard is this to build? How long might it take? Are there ways to build a solution more quicker?
Design: How does your new fea"See full answer
"You should be able to identify this as a clear Strategy Question, which asks you to justify high-level business decisions and strategy. One thing to note is the interviewer said "briefly". Be concise and to the point. Here are some good arguments for the Youtube acquisition:
> There are a few reasons why Google would want to acquire YouTube. I'll go over a few of the main reasons why I think they went ahead with such a large acquisition. At the time of the YouTube acquisition, Google and You"
Exponent - "You should be able to identify this as a clear Strategy Question, which asks you to justify high-level business decisions and strategy. One thing to note is the interviewer said "briefly". Be concise and to the point. Here are some good arguments for the Youtube acquisition:
> There are a few reasons why Google would want to acquire YouTube. I'll go over a few of the main reasons why I think they went ahead with such a large acquisition. At the time of the YouTube acquisition, Google and You"See full answer
"Introduce special tickets which will cover a bundle of rides. This will distribute the load over the remaining rides and reduce the queue for the particular ride as all the people will no longer try to avail the same ride simultaneously."
Shuvam C. - "Introduce special tickets which will cover a bundle of rides. This will distribute the load over the remaining rides and reduce the queue for the particular ride as all the people will no longer try to avail the same ride simultaneously."See full answer
"Clarifications
Shared laundry means there are a number of washers and dryers in a room, and anyone can pay to use those for one cycle
Assuming minimal hardware changes to washers and dryers
Goal: Improve customer satisfaction with the shared laundry experience
Metric: Customer satisfaction score (TBD)
Users:
Customers
Low volume (e.g. singles, young professionals etc.) (L, XL)
Medium volume (e.g. families with children or elderly etc.) (XL, S)
Large volume (e.g. re"
AspiringNoogler - "Clarifications
Shared laundry means there are a number of washers and dryers in a room, and anyone can pay to use those for one cycle
Assuming minimal hardware changes to washers and dryers
Goal: Improve customer satisfaction with the shared laundry experience
Metric: Customer satisfaction score (TBD)
Users:
Customers
Low volume (e.g. singles, young professionals etc.) (L, XL)
Medium volume (e.g. families with children or elderly etc.) (XL, S)
Large volume (e.g. re"See full answer
"This is another Strategy question, which means finding good reasons for strategic decisions. A few reasons for the GitHub acquisition are listed here.
Competition
> With the GitHub acquisition comes a lot of data on which companies are getting huge, or which technologies are cutting edge. Microsoft can adopt these technologies faster than others by having a pulse on this. It's also a defensive acquisition, since GitHub belonging to Microsoft means it can't be bought by Facebook or Google"
Exponent - "This is another Strategy question, which means finding good reasons for strategic decisions. A few reasons for the GitHub acquisition are listed here.
Competition
> With the GitHub acquisition comes a lot of data on which companies are getting huge, or which technologies are cutting edge. Microsoft can adopt these technologies faster than others by having a pulse on this. It's also a defensive acquisition, since GitHub belonging to Microsoft means it can't be bought by Facebook or Google"See full answer
"Tiktok should not be banned in the US. It is against the free market ethos of a capitalistic economy like the US.
Competition can help other tech companies like Google, Meta and Snap to build better products by incentivizing them to constantly improve and innovate in order to stay ahead of their rivals. In a competitive market, companies must constantly seek to develop new and better products and services in order to attract and retain customers. This can lead to a cycle of innovation, as compa"
Ozark - "Tiktok should not be banned in the US. It is against the free market ethos of a capitalistic economy like the US.
Competition can help other tech companies like Google, Meta and Snap to build better products by incentivizing them to constantly improve and innovate in order to stay ahead of their rivals. In a competitive market, companies must constantly seek to develop new and better products and services in order to attract and retain customers. This can lead to a cycle of innovation, as compa"See full answer
"This is a Favorite Product question with a slight twist. We have a constraint: picking an enterprise app. Let's go over the Favorite Product formula before we begin:
Choose a product and briefly explain what it is
Who are the users?
What are their pain points?
How did competitors solve it in the past?
How does this product address these pain points differently and better?
How would you improve it/make it better?
Summarize
Let's start!
Choo"
Exponent - "This is a Favorite Product question with a slight twist. We have a constraint: picking an enterprise app. Let's go over the Favorite Product formula before we begin:
Choose a product and briefly explain what it is
Who are the users?
What are their pain points?
How did competitors solve it in the past?
How does this product address these pain points differently and better?
How would you improve it/make it better?
Summarize
Let's start!
Choo"See full answer
"I would buy them all miniature ponies and create pony hubs throughout the city where they can scan in and rent a pony. The ponies have wings by the way."
Christopher T. - "I would buy them all miniature ponies and create pony hubs throughout the city where they can scan in and rent a pony. The ponies have wings by the way."See full answer