Interview Questions

SweetTaco - "Understand Wikipedia Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that gives everyone access to unbiased and accurate knowledge and information. Current products: Website - people use Wikipedia to search and pull up articles written around a specific topic Integration with other products such as browsers and kindles - people highlight a word/subject and they can pull up the relevant wikipedia if it's available. Business model: It's a non-profit organization t"See full answer

Pablo S. - "1) Product, the value and the users this business has Product: Yelp is a platform that connects local businesses with people looking for those services. Value: Yelpers can connect with them / book appointments or make reservations with a good amount and quality of reviews per business. For businesses, it is a way to get visibility and find new demand with an easy setup. Users: Local businesses (offering): successful when they are booked. Searchers / demand: successful when"See full answer

Exponent - "This may seem tricky at first, but this is actually an Expansion problem, since we're expanding to a new market. The only difference is this is specifically for small businesses within that market. This is the formula you should use when tackling these types of interview questions: Ask clarifying questions Perform user analysis Market risk analysis State goals Perform channel analysis Prioritize growth channels Strategy Summarize Witho"See full answer

Parth S. - "Assuming that trades will have information like trade_type buy or sell trade_price with these tuples, one can iterate over each trade while maintaining a stack which maintains all the open buy trades. If we encounter a sell trade then we pop one element make it a buy/sell pair and calculate the profit/loss for that pair. Moreover, keep adding pair-wise profit/loss to calculate overall profit as we continue iterating over trades. At the end print pairs and their profit/loss along with"See full answer

fuzzyicecream14 - "Situation: As a Product Manager at Cisco, I was leading the development of a new highly critical product for enterprise customers. Midway through the project, a key engineering team was reassigned due to an urgent security patch, leaving us understaffed with only six weeks left before a critical customer pilot. Task: I had to ensure the product launched on time without sacrificing key features, despite losing half of our engineering team. The challenge was to"See full answer

Abdurhman M. - "program management is a role similar to project management but often encompasses more that just managing projects."See full answer

Deric C. - "Clarification/Problem What is the timeline that we're working with? (You Choose) What is the criteria for how you'd define an improvement or success? (You Choose) Is there a specific area of the DMV experience that you want me to improve? (No) Are we thinking about this from the perspective of the DMV? (Yes) What is the market that we should be thinking about or focusing on? (US) Business Objective The DMV has a couple of key goals: To help uniquely identify which vehi"See full answer

Anonymous Dove - "People interested in travel on Pinterest are looking for inspiration, information, and interaction. They want to discover new places, learn useful tips, and connect with other travelers. To improve their experience, I would suggest the following ideas: Create curated collections of travel pins: Pinterest users love to browse and save pins that match their interests and preferences. By creating curated collections of travel pins, you can showcase the best content from different sources and"See full answer

Rani Y. - "Prompt : design a farm product Clarifying question : what is the timeline and budget that i need to consider to build this ? 1 year , flexible budget . Is there any geography that i need to focus on ? no restriction What is farming ? Farming is a practice of raising crops and braising animals to produce food for human survival . This is one of the old / primitive ways to grow food using natural resources like land , water etc Why is it imp now ? Farming as I said is vary primitive way to grow fo"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

Khushbu R. - "General Approach (using Max-Heap) Use a max-heap (priority queue) of size k. For each point: Compute the distance to P. Push it into the heap. If heap size > k, remove the farthest point. The heap will contain the k closest points to P. import java.util.*; public class KClosestPoints { static class Point { int x, y; public Point(int x, int y) { this.x = x; this.y = y; } // Euclidean distance squared (no need to take square root) p"See full answer

Charu S. - "I was working on a project wherein I had to launch a marketing campaign with very tight timelines and that too on a tool wherein neither I nor my team had any expertise. However if we successfully sign off a campaign, our company could get a chance to show this project in our portfolio and attract new clients for such projects which could ultimately increase the financial factors. So I created a plan wherein I scheduled trainings for the team with external sources and along with that kept an eye"See full answer

Exponent - "This is a Favorite Product question with a slight twist. We have a constraint: picking a physical product. This should be relatively easy since you use physical products personally every day. Let's go over the Favorite Product formula before we begin: Choose a product and briefly explain what it is Who are the users? What are their pain points? How did competitors solve it in the past? How does this product address these pain points differently and better? "See full answer

James M. - "Break down into: OPEX #Employees x $avg. cost per employee $Overhead (mktg, legal, compliance) Content cost (creator payments) 80% of advert. revenue Elec, cooling, maintenance CAPEX #Data centers Avg servers per data center Avg. cost $ per server"See full answer

Anonymous Wombat - "Was the statement very similar to the leetcode or was it changed and only the main idea remained?"See full answer

Anonymous Sparrow - "Clarifying question: how does Uber know that this is happening and has there already been research as to why drivers are doing this? Approach: Understand the problem and how big of a problem is it? Is it a big enough problem to address given other competing priorities? Given the why's both for drivers and riders, ideate solutions to both drivers and riders Prioritize solutions Measure of success Summary Propose the approach above and solicit feedback from interviewer, incorporat"See full answer

Rahul J. - "Clarifying questions Target customers: users who want to book flights, hotel etc. Geo: USA Form factor: web and mobile app About the company Agoda wants its users to 'see the world for less' i.e. they are targeting users who want to travel (for business or pleasure) and their key value proposition is price i.e. lowest cost hotels, flights and other services. Business model: Agoda is an online market place where vendors like airlines, hotels etc. are displayed and user can search for a"See full answer

Ekta M. - "Define the feature A virtual card number is a temporary or disposable card number generated by your credit card issuer or financial institution. It is designed to protect your actual credit card information during online transactions. Its main purpose is the security of your actual credit card. Clarification questions No questions What is the purpose of the feature? Enhanced Security: Using a virtual card number protects your actual credit card details from being exposed to potentia"See full answer