Interview Questions

Raj M. - "Never a straight-forward answer. Assuming that this is a company goal to increase ad revenues from Chrome, try and understand the reason for the negative feedback. Is it a systematic issue (ads generally do lower overall user experience) or a specific issue (quality of ads, technical issues)? If the latter, fix that and run the experiment again. If former, how does this compare to user experience for other products with or without ads (YT vs YT premium)? If it above benchmarks, then pause. If in"See full answer

William W. - "Clarifying questions Why is this company interested in building a vending machine for disabled people? We're a vending machine company who has recently learned that disabled people have a lot of trouble using our machines. We want to change that. What is the main metric this company is trying to drive? Machine usage Is there a specific kind of disability we are interested in targeting? Blind, amputees etc. Blind/vision impaired people Is there a specific type"See full answer

Sneha D. - "Design a university voting app"See full answer

Anonymous - "Understand the rationale around why another PM has an opposing opinion. At the end of the day it cannot be your word against mine and the opinion has to be data-based. Taking time to listen and asking clarification questions will promote a healthy partnership Once we get the perspective, Look for data points that can support my POV over the other PMs POV Lastly evaluate if we can land on a 51-49% approach where we find a middle ground to accommodate another pm's opinion/solution as"See full answer

Ankita S. - "let's say I'm working on a social media platform and considering implementing a new feature: "Reactions" to posts, similar to Facebook's reactions (like, love, haha, wow, sad, angry). Here's how I would conduct an A/B test for this feature: Define goals and Identify the feature: Goal is to increase user engagement and provide more nuanced ways for users to express their reactions to posts.The feature I want to test is the introduction of "Reactions" buttons alongside the traditional "Lik"See full answer

Cristina E. - "The main strength is the huge market size that it already has. Other strength is the way google works is really familiar to everyone who use android Challenge Increase the revenue if the volume keeps at the same level Keep being in the top of mind on the users with the high competence"See full answer

Umang S. - "I would start by asking what exactly is Yelp for Business or defining the product, which is a way for local businesses to host their listings, allow reviewers to post reviews, and potential for businesses to promote their listings/businesses via ads. Then would define the goal of the product - if I assume - to connect people with your business. Then the golden question - why do we want to improve? Have we seen a downward trend? Have we had user or business feedback? Is there a"See full answer

Ram - "Clarification Are we focusing on the Amazon shopping cart specifically, or are there any other features involved? Are there any specific user groups (e.g., Prime users, international users) we need to consider? Is there a particular focus on conversion or user engagement? 1. Business Context Feature Goal: The cart serves as the gateway between user interest and the actual purchase, helping to reduce friction in the buying process. Business Model:Amazon take"See full answer

Hayatu H. - "What is your product that you use often but just hate? 1 Follow Request Answer More All related (33) Recommended 📷 Sancoyo Pinandito · Follow Brand & Product Specialist, Watch Lover5y Whoa great question, it is very hard to answer. As a marketer I often ask question like you asked to my target consumer. But now I trully feel how hard it ac"See full answer

Sayee M. - "talked about a time when customer is trying to go to cloud for first time and championing the effort.. it is strategic and also a risk because outside of the OEM, no one we know had implemented this product architecture on the cloud.. used first [principles, did a crawl, walk jog approach and implemented it. Risk because of lack of reference architecture, clodu tech was new to me . career making/breaking project for customer. result : project was successful. presented story in a conference."See full answer

Srikanth A. - "Clarify - What is the product ? Autonomous driving capability Technology as a vehicle to drive man driver capability What is the current stage of project ? Technology is ready I will start by understanding the Goal, Intention behind this initiative as I am considering myself new PM joined this team and I have to come up with go to market strategy. Goal - More users to adopt and build trust with self driving car capability. Target user persona End user Businesses -Rideshare service -Food"See full answer

Ben G. - "Ask Follow up Questions Is this for specific type of user or open? Do we have any past research that has been done? Do we have an idea of company and user goals? Do we have metrics of success? Are there any existing constraints? Why  |  5 min Why is this product or feature important? How does this product benefit customers? What business opportunities does it create? What is our hypothesis? What are our company goals? Who  |  3 min Who are the different types"See full answer

Anonymous Possum - "The unique id is not clear in this question"See full answer

Scott S. - ",1:1s are a crucial part of my management approach. These meetings provide an opportunity to build strong relationships with team members, understand their needs, and ensure alignment with the team's goals. The way I do is I schedule 1:1s on a regular basis,typically weekly or bi-weekly, depending on the team member's preference and current workload.I encourage team members to contribute to the agenda by sending topics they want to discuss beforehand. This ensures that the 1:1 is focused on wha"See full answer

Andrew B. - "Assumptions: We're looking only at a single large dealership in San Jose, per the question, not all large car dealerships New cars already come with tires; the dealer does not have to purchase them separately A couple of different ways I might approach this: Approach 1: Estimate based on # cars serviced per day Dealer intakes 10 cars for servicing per hour (based on anecdotal observation) 100 cars serviced per day (assuming service dept. open 10 hours per day) Cars that need onl"See full answer

Mayank M. - "There are 2 main methods Intrinsic Evaluation i) Preplexity ii) BLEU Extrinsic Evaluation i) Response consistency/ Correctness / Factual score/ Security However, this question requires a follow-up question and clarification about where we are going to use the LLM models."See full answer

Devi K. - "Assuming this is a all-inclusive product management team only, I would structure the team as follows: Platform/Technical PM - 2 Front-End PM - 3 (mix of Senior and Assistant PM) Head of Product (People and Organisation behavious) and Principal Product Manager (in the weeds and strategy involved)"See full answer

Shashi R. - "How do you define Retention? Let’s assume a user comes back tomorrow and scroll for a 10s or so Do we mean to improve the daily retention or weekly/monthly retention? Take a call I think we should look at the weekly retention as checking LinkedIn daily could be a cumbersome task for some and daily retention data may have frequent fluctuations due to several reasons such as professionals are too busy to check LinkedIn on a daily basis Has retention dropped recently, or do we just need to"See full answer