"This is a classic Strategy Question, which asks you to justify high-level business decisions and strategy. With many acquisition strategy questions, we can first look at core competencies and synergies before offering more complex reasoning.
> Google acquired Fitbit in 2019 for over $2 billion. Here are some reasons why:More data
> Integrations with Google Health
> Owning more hardware
> Future wearable tech integrations
> Prevent a competitive acquisition
> I'll go into detail about each. F"
Exponent - "This is a classic Strategy Question, which asks you to justify high-level business decisions and strategy. With many acquisition strategy questions, we can first look at core competencies and synergies before offering more complex reasoning.
> Google acquired Fitbit in 2019 for over $2 billion. Here are some reasons why:More data
> Integrations with Google Health
> Owning more hardware
> Future wearable tech integrations
> Prevent a competitive acquisition
> I'll go into detail about each. F"See full answer
"This is a Strategy Question, which asks you to justify high-level business decisions and strategy. Since this is asking to look at the geopolitical climate, it's important to dig deeper on understanding how things have a cause-effect relationship.
Let's go over one possible solution:
> The trade war affects Apple in many ways, but I think the three biggest are:Higher tariffs
> Slower new hardware growth
> Lower domestic sales
>
Higher tariffs
> The trade war immediately impacts our botto"
Exponent - "This is a Strategy Question, which asks you to justify high-level business decisions and strategy. Since this is asking to look at the geopolitical climate, it's important to dig deeper on understanding how things have a cause-effect relationship.
Let's go over one possible solution:
> The trade war affects Apple in many ways, but I think the three biggest are:Higher tariffs
> Slower new hardware growth
> Lower domestic sales
>
Higher tariffs
> The trade war immediately impacts our botto"See full answer
"Looked at use-cases - what would be biggest value props be. Looked at VIP people moving to save the cost of private airplane, security personnel and for everyday people it could be used for emergencies when people had to be moved quickly and safely. Looked at industrial use cases also for security such as moving precious stones like diamonds or high amount of cash where there would be high security, armoured trucks and logistics cost. Decided to narrow down to industrial use and went deeper int"
Nanda S. - "Looked at use-cases - what would be biggest value props be. Looked at VIP people moving to save the cost of private airplane, security personnel and for everyday people it could be used for emergencies when people had to be moved quickly and safely. Looked at industrial use cases also for security such as moving precious stones like diamonds or high amount of cash where there would be high security, armoured trucks and logistics cost. Decided to narrow down to industrial use and went deeper int"See full answer
"This is a straightforward Expansion problem, since we're expanding to a new 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
Without further ado, let's dive in!
Ask clarifying questions
It's important to ask questions in advance to create a"
Exponent - "This is a straightforward Expansion problem, since we're expanding to a new 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
Without further ado, let's dive in!
Ask clarifying questions
It's important to ask questions in advance to create a"See full answer
"Even though Snapchat already exists within Indonesia, this is still an Expansion problem. 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
Without further ado, let's dive in!
Ask clarifying questions
It's important to ask questions in advance to cre"
Exponent - "Even though Snapchat already exists within Indonesia, this is still an Expansion problem. 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
Without further ado, let's dive in!
Ask clarifying questions
It's important to ask questions in advance to cre"See full answer
"This is a Measure Success question with a slight twist. The twist here is we need to consider a hypothetical improvement. This changes our formula slightly - specifically we may not be able to apply a UX flow to drive analysis since we're unsure of the implementation. Instead, we'll look at core behaviors that are indicative of success. Here's the modified formula:
Ask clarifying questions
State the goal of the feature
**Apply a UX flow to drive analysis of what to measure"
Exponent - "This is a Measure Success question with a slight twist. The twist here is we need to consider a hypothetical improvement. This changes our formula slightly - specifically we may not be able to apply a UX flow to drive analysis since we're unsure of the implementation. Instead, we'll look at core behaviors that are indicative of success. Here's the modified formula:
Ask clarifying questions
State the goal of the feature
**Apply a UX flow to drive analysis of what to measure"See full answer
"Question: How would you improve airport layover?
Clarifying Questions
What’s my role? Product Manager at a specific company? - Product Manager at the company that builds the airport
Digital Product or Physical Product? - Make my own assumption
Specific Airport? Country? Airline? - Airport in the US
Has both international and domestic
Why?
Airport layovers are becoming more common as international travel picks up post COVID
Increasing # of travellers
Layovers as a"
Siddhant S. - "Question: How would you improve airport layover?
Clarifying Questions
What’s my role? Product Manager at a specific company? - Product Manager at the company that builds the airport
Digital Product or Physical Product? - Make my own assumption
Specific Airport? Country? Airline? - Airport in the US
Has both international and domestic
Why?
Airport layovers are becoming more common as international travel picks up post COVID
Increasing # of travellers
Layovers as a"See full answer
"I used the star framework to talk about a webhooks feature I designed to compliment an API product we were building, the client only asked for the APIs but I saw some inherent flaws in the polling mechanism with the APi product and decided to build a webhook notification system"
Lakshmi T. - "I used the star framework to talk about a webhooks feature I designed to compliment an API product we were building, the client only asked for the APIs but I saw some inherent flaws in the polling mechanism with the APi product and decided to build a webhook notification system"See full answer