Execution Interview Questions

Krishnan S. - "I would start with few clarifying questions for the investigation and diagnosis of the problem. Timing and volume: For how long is the peak surge being noticed? Past few days / weeks / months? Clarify about 'certain times'. Is it weekday Morning (Peak), Morning (off peak), Afternoon, Afternoon (peak), Evening (peak), Evening (off peak) or weekend? Do we info on vehicle type that have the most volume? Cars, trucks, commercial vehicles, etc., Location and convenience of the gas st"See full answer

Raymond W. - "Clarifications/assumptions - we're only interested in opening and closing hours, not serving times e.g. breakfast or lunch time format etc will be local only interested in regular hours not special holiday hours Potential users/data providers (ranked by order of authority) Businesses/Advertisers Consumers Google Goal Coverage Prioritising the most popular restaurants, or those who are willing to invest in advertising Accurate, but conservative - better be wrong to"See full answer

Anonymous Cat - "Good practice video; however, at minute 6:40 in this video, the interviewer confirmed the app version causes no issue! While the final answer was the app version!"See full answer

stash - "Clarification What category of Marketplace are we setting a goal for as there are several sub-marketplaces? —> We are looking at overall Marketplace Are we focused globally or in the US? —> Lets limit to the US To set the Goal for FB marketplace I will start by describing the product, go over goals for the users (buyers / sellers) and the business (FB), review user actions, list metrics and then summarize our goal for marketplace and choose a few keys metrics to track our progress towa"See full answer

Hems S. - "I will start with clarifications: Q: How do you define "healthy" marketplace? A: When there is a balance in demand and supply Q: If we have balance, is it fair to assume, lot of transactions will happen? A: Sure Q: Also, is it fair to assume well known tokens on the platform already have a healthy marketplace with enough buyers and sellers. The problem is mainly with new tokens that will be introduced? A: Thats a fair assumption Q: Its okay to limit scope for this exercise to the CB retail a"See full answer

Scarlett S. - "Clarifying and definition of the metrics By creations down by 5%, how do you calculate the drop? the how % user create stories has dropped, or the overal stories being created fewer, could be average stories created by a user drops. Basically, how do you calculate the creation and drop? They have similarities, but it reveals diffrent type user behahviors. Assume they say fewer people create fewer stories , both, Just to be confirm that, we saw a 5% change/dig in how many user"See full answer

Gk K. - " can we use blomfilters to check existing usernames? and if both are creating at a time, like both are choosing some abcd , here system checks whether user with that name exists or not. so while checking , it will add an entry on redis (example) with this name as key and obtain lock using some distributed lock. , it will lock on that name. (like seat booking in bookmyshow) with some TTL value. so this check will happen once user enters his interest username and also while submit .. 2 times che"See full answer

Sukriti C. - "Why is this important? Human capital is the core competitive advantage for technology companies, especially Google. Making the best hire for a given position vs not at scale can mean hours of lost productivity with significant monetary implications. The corollary to a false negative is also a false positive. Assuming that the goal is to hire the best candidate for a given job, the fact that the right person was not hired means the less than the right person for the job was. Impact : Delta"See full answer

Ian S. - "Clarifying questions: What are we defining as "participation"? Does it include creating a live stream? Or is it just viewing a stream? Engaging (commenting/reacting) with other viewers during a live stream? ["Participation" = Watching, commenting, or reacting to a live stream as it's being broadcast, not during replays] Are these live streams from major broadcasters expecting large audiences? Or individuals making use of live broadcasting from their phones? [Across the board] "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

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

Kena K. - "Lyft’s mission: To become the world’s best transportation company CQ: · Region: USA · Metrics to improve: Engagement User persona: · Passengers · Drivers Will consider passengers persona for this case. Use case / pain points: Exact pick up location is not visible on the map Not able to communicate exact location to the driver due to unknown location How to change the pick-up location in case passenger has to move around Features: Passenger can share a pictur"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

Parag - "Clarify Retention for which side of the platform - advertisers, groceries/shops, shoppers, users? - Assume Is there any specific event or trend driving retention down or we’re looking in general to overall improve from current state? - Assume Is this tied to any particular geography or region? - Assume Is this tied to any specific persona within our 4 sided platform? - Assume Are we changing the definition of retention (time, frequency, others)? - Assume no Goal - Improve the use"See full answer

Christopher K. - "Amazon is releasing a product recommendation carousel. Q1. How would we approach this launch with executive leadership? Q2. How would you obtain the data to find out if you should launch and what sample size should your testing batch be for an A/B test scenario? Clarifying Questions What is the current goal for the product recommendation - Increase sales How does the current product recommendation view look like on the home page - A mosaic list view Are there any existing custome"See full answer

Sonam S. - "Are support tickets % an increase or an absolute increase? (Assuming absolute increase) Is the dashboard showing an increase in tickets accurate? Categories tickets Geographic area? Product area? Operational area? Seasonality? Type of ticket - Debug tickets or Help me how to do x (Did we have an influx of new customers joining? ) What type of customers ( new or existing, age with the company, history) 3"See full answer

Shawn S. - "Context: As a people manager, my biggest thing is to foster psychological safety for my team members and the way I do that: building rapport between me and my direct reports, weekly team meetings I ensure all voices are heard, have people share about themselves and encourage them to get to know one another. Team members had a good understanding of each other’s working style. One of the recent projects my team was responsible for building out the espresso test framework on android. This was"See full answer

Coach - "Product "XYZ" explain what it is and which audience it is serving. Goals Ease the anxiety Offer the most comprehensive perspective of Cloud Engagement Democratize Upsell Insights Business Review Deck Slide #1: NPS - Now, Trend & Insights + Call To Action: FYI & solicit feedback Slide #2: User Engagement Update - DAU, WAU, MAU, Actions Completed + Call To Action: FYI & solicit feedback Slide #3: Partnership Update - Share new cross org collabor"See full answer

Julien C. - "👇 Your feedback is very much appreciated 👇 Reduce scope of product for the initial launch. Streamline the PRD to an actual MVP and use the current PRD (that takes 6 months to build) for the V1"See full answer