Interview Questions

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

Delyan P. - "Leadership though empathy - I helped underperforming engineer to break into product since she had great product qualities like good attention to the user.. Now she is my peer and we cross-collaborate extensively. I have earned her trust and she can go the extra mile when my team needs some support."See full answer

Rolemberg J. - "I faced a problem about components re-rendering's and unnecessary requests API's which was causing performance complications in my applicactions. I had a structure that create, edit and delete task, so GET, POST, PUT and DELETE API's methods request was necessary and bring that to compliance without compromissing the performance is hard. I started involving componentes and async functions into the useMemo's and useEffect's to have more control, another improvement was take be careful with global"See full answer

Ankita G. - "Merge Sort"See full answer

Jack F. - "The project manager must take care of the risks associated with the particular project. Scrum Master is a team facilitator and serves as a servant leader. The product manager serves as a team leader and is responsible for project performance and ensuring that everything goes according to plan."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

Adrian V. - "What about sharding by Real Estate companies that are listing the homes? Because the homes can span zip codes. Then further shard by zip codes?"See full answer

Anonymous Porcupine - "Scope Clarification with Interviewer: Is it a standard civil 4-seater helicopter or a Military cargo carrier? Do we wish to calculate the balls in the passenger compartment only or do I consider the gas tank and other spaces in a helicopter? 3.Is the helicopter loaded with seats and passengers or do I assume that there are no seats and passengers/ pilot? Assumptions: The interviewer asked me to make assumptions. Its a standard 4-seater helicopter It is empty but has the standard seat"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

Sandeep Y. - "Functional requirement's: partial search while searching for users, products any keywords in the search. additional keywords in the filter Black listed words in the search. Non functional requirements: low latency, search through 2 Billion records recent search should be cached. Design: high reads, we should have caching enabled over the primary db storages. caching cluster can be added when the search load increases. read ahead. - check in cache (periodic cache refresh), lfu, lru "See full answer

Jasmine Y. - "It depends on the size of the dataset. You want enough samples in both the testing, training and evaluation sets. If there is enough data, 70/20/10 is a good split"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