Interview Questions

Ekta M. - "Some clarification questions On a very top layer these are the building blocks of the Quick Commerce companies. Let me know if you wanna deep dive in any specific. Users - browses the catalogue and selects the items that they wanna buy. Dark Store - This is where the catalogue is stored i.e. the items to be ordered. Imagine this to be a huge super store but only the delivery executives are allowed to shop in their. There are multiple of these dark stores, when you enter your address you get"See full answer

Swati S. - "Clarify + Set the context Ticket master in my understanding is a marketplace where event hosts put out their event and people can book the tickets from the platform. Competitor should offer a differentiated offering based on discovery and secure booking User Identification + Needs There are three types of users - customers, Event hosts (sellers) and Hotels Customer : As a customer, I want to explore what is happening in my city I want to explore new artists/ check out and enhance my"See full answer

Anonymous Muskox - "DoorDash - An online Food Ordering and Food Delivery Company. What is the Goal of the DoorDash? The goal is to empower local business and connect to the users. Who are the the different stakeholders involved to achieve this Goal for DoorDash? Users Restaurant Partners Delivery Partners What they need to do to achieve this goal? More users have to come on the platform for ordering Restaurants has to fulfil the requirement of maximum number of Users Delivery part"See full answer

Kasturi K. - "Lyft has 3 main stakeholders - Riders, Drivers and Lyft. Let's understand the different types of people who use Lyft in big cities from a customer perspective. Lyft is the main mode of office transportation - These are office goers who don't own a car or driving car drains them hence prefer Lyft. The usage of Lyft is very high >10+/month. These are generally professionals. Lyft for Airport - Going to airport is a very big use case as transportation to the airport is generally very limite"See full answer

Rushab S. - "Before we can delve into opportunities to increase revenue and create a roadmap for next 5 years, let's look at Spotify's Vision and Mission Statement Who are the key stakeholders currently in spotify's ecosystem and how does spotify make revenue What are some of the key market trends that impact the stakeholders in the spotify's ecosystem Spotify's Vision and Mission Statement Mission: Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity Vision: Spotify's vision is to be"See full answer

Amparo L. - "My favorite app on my phone is Youtube because that way I could watch iCarly videos for free."See full answer

Tes d H. - "Here is my first shot at it. Please excuse formatting. To find the maximum depth of the dependencies given a list of nodes, each having a unique string id and a list of subnodes it depends on, you can perform a depth-first search (DFS) to traverse the dependency graph. Here's how you can implement this: Represent the nodes and their dependencies using a dictionary. Perform a DFS on each node to find the maximum depth of the dependencies. Keep track of the maximum depth encountered dur"See full answer

Mark H. - "Clarification: workplace is a communication messaging tool for employee to send and receive messages. Why: meta's mission current landscape market trends meta's unique value strength & weakness Workplace Mission: build a communication tool for employees to better collaborate and engage with each other Goal: focus on engagement, not revenue Product ecosystem: Meta Company sourcing department IT department User: sender/receiver #of people log in #of people"See full answer

Anonymous Muskox - "YouTube Goal -> Give voice to everyone and show them the world, Video -> Shorts( Dominated by Shorts, Reels, Tiktok Mid(1-25 Min). -> Youtube Medium Long(60-90 Mins) -> [Opportunity] Long(150-180 Mins) -> OTT Platform, Movies Youtube can assist content creators on Youtube to make high-quality Film Like Videos without any Production Setup. Assisting Content Creators to create Movies with"See full answer

Karthik T. - "In our product portfolio there were many teams and we were almost 12 product managers interacting closely to deliver the entire product feature area. Situation was that we were frequently had defects come in which will result in defects pushed back and forth. Goal was to avoid this as SLA of defects was getting impacted immensely there were priority 2 defects which we were sitting for couple of weeks before being looked at. There was a need to establish a triaging process. Along with my leaders"See full answer

Jay K. - "First, let’s discuss why this is important for any platform business Think of platform businesses like Amazon or YouTube as matchmakers. They connect people who want something with those who provide it, whether it's products or content. But here's the catch: users trust these platforms to make sure they're getting good stuff. They want genuine products, safe content, and no scams. So, platforms need to be like guardians. They check suppliers and content creators to make sure they're not"See full answer

Vivek S. - "This question can be answered in two different ways: a. Strategic b. Product Sense Since , the question is which product you would work upon , it is likely a product strategy question , where interviewer is trying to find about how would you go about selecting the product to solve for. Another approach would be to clarify on the two approaches from the Interviewer. Can ask your hierarchy in PM role [ APM/PM/ Sr. PM / GPM ] and then approach this. Candidate : Do you have any specific goal"See full answer

Aeshvarya J. - "Clarifying questions : When we speak about video buffering, are we looking at long video (more than an hour), medium video, short videos and shorts? I will assume its all video types. Is this was a steady increase or sudden one and over what time period? I will assume sudden one over last week? Has we experienced any such issues in the past or trends? I will assume no. Are we experiencing this globaly or for some region? I assume globaly The KPI we are measuring is Average Video Buffering T"See full answer

Prabhav G. - "Assumptions and Clarification! What kind of blind person are we talking about ? Are they partially blind? Color Blind? Can Detect Light ? Can See blurry Images? Is the Blind person an adult, elderly or a teenager? Do they have any additional disabilities? Where will this Iron be used? At home? or perhaps one for travel? Do we have any limitation of resources? Assumptions- We are talking about a Complete Blind person who cannot see anything at all i.e Zero ability to se"See full answer

Kartikeya N. - "Clarifying questions By mutual follows, we mean that both of them follow each other on Tiktok, correct? : Yes We want to know an average number for the same, ie mean and not median or any other value, right? : Yes Shall we consider the global audience or that of a particular country? : Global Can we assume the time setting of this question as of 2025?: yes Here’s how I will tackle this question. > We will first estimate the total number of Tiktok users. Then we will try to"See full answer

Rahul J. - "Assumptions: User type: school children living in the USA. Form factor: mobile app on iOS and Android Problem statement School children all across the country visit museums 2-4 times in a year. The museums have info on the contents and layout but that is static. Key value proposition of product is to guide users through the museum Internal company assessment Let's assume the interview is at Google. Google's mission is to organise the world's information so this problem aligns with"See full answer

Rahul J. - "This depends on the following two variables: What's the percentage of people dropping off at each step What's the perceived impact to business and users of the failure of each step. In general, I'd start from the very end, and then go back in the process as it's more important that we satisfy customers who have paid i.e. they should get a booking confirmation vs customers that are entering details and then payment info."See full answer