Interview Questions

Shivam S. - "Conduct a competitive analysis: Research the competitive landscape to identify gaps and opportunities that your product can capitalize on. Develop a business case: Document the value of your product, including projected growth, expected return on investment, and potential risk factors. Establish partnerships: Develop relationships with key stakeholders and partners who can help provide resources and funding for your product. Secure executive support: Present yo"See full answer

Luca D. - "The real discussion was very much similar o what exposed at https://www.tryexponent.com/courses/software-engineering/system-design/design-rate-limiter, but - as I commented the video - the real interviewer wasn't so naive to do not forgive the client identification only because IP. I had to introduce glimpses of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowyourcustomer practice, I quoted JWT. I proposed a logical map of id addressing a "deque" of time-stamps of requests, with a threshold for the deque an"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

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

Simran M. - "Clarifications: Netflix is a streaming service and homepage serves the first entry point after a user has been logged in to their respective profile. Homepage helps users find a relevant content for them to watch, among other features like "Continue watching" or games. Mission: Netflix's mission is to entertain the world. Goal: As a PM of homepage, the goal of the feature is to let the users find relevant content of their interest. This feature ties to the mission in a way that lets the user"See full answer

Sumit P. - "CQs: Content moderation system finds Inappropriate contents - profanity, violence, privacy concerning. Misinformation - false info, false claim, fomenting wrong views PII Misinformation → Wrong info Twisted info Incomplete info Goal - reliability and trust on the platform Long term increased engagement on informational content RAG system - what and why? RAG system has 3 components Brain - reasoning models Tool"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

Yomna H. - "Evication Strategy: LFU Access Pattern: Write Around"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

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

Aveek B. - "Seems to be copied from here: https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question/system-design/1286344/System-Design-Design-Weather-Widget/982489"See full answer

Sneha D. - "Design a university voting app"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

Agyt J. - "Getting product requirements right first : -- Gmail App to be used only within 24 humans in Mars -- Mars is a very hostile environment with extremely low temperatures and zero O2. Hardware operating in sub zero temp. Hardware probably doesn't need cooling. Battery life is restricted. -- Assume that people would be wearing specialized suites. Visibility and Listening capability is ok, however, their ability to use their fingers is severely restricted -- Greatly voice enabled and a speaking app --"See full answer

Arvind R. - "Based on the demand data, i.e. how many people are seeking to take shuttle during a certain period, I will make that as on-schedule. On the lower peak times, I will make it as on-demand with the expectation of how long it will take from request to shuttle available."See full answer

Mahesh G. - "Clarifying questions: Is it before pre launch or for it's current business? > Pre launch Goals > Adoption, engagement Can briefly talk about: What the company cares about? (Uber & Uber Eats) Uber: Redefining the world moves for the better Uber Eats: Make eating well effortless at any time, for anyone, anywhere Expectations of consumers and restaurants/Stores Consumers: At one's comfort, one wants the groceries or/and food to be delivered to their"See full answer

Anonpm C. - "Context Referral system as in how users can refer others to join Netflix? Yes. User growth meaning subscriptions to the platform? Or started a free trial? I will let you decide that. Company/Product Netflix makes it easy to watch movies, TV shows, and play games from your home TV and mobile devices. Goal: Create a referral system that - grows the volume of subscribed users to Netflix. Metric: Total subscriptions + Total subscriptions from referrals. Total referrals made **User"See full answer

Peter H. - "Google Glass, first released in 2014, failed spectacularly due to its well-publicized issues around privacy concerns. Few will forget the term 'glassholes' for those who use Google Glass ability to record everyday life, potentially without any permission from those being recorded. However, Augmented Reality is now much closer to the public imagination. Augmented reality will go through many iterations. Important for user acceptance is that the glasses look and feel just like normal glasses. Th"See full answer

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