Interview Questions

nikilukman - "Clarifying questions #1: What does "investment" mean? #2: Verification badge already exists or not? #3: A verification badge is a special symbol (like a checkmark), usually displayed next to the username to identify/verify that an account with this badge is an authentic public figure or brand. It is NOT a way for Instagram to endorse the "importance" of verified accounts. Is this accurate? Anything else I should know of as a PM regarding the definition? **Assumption: Verification badge alre"See full answer

Mrinalini A. - "Clarifying question - Who are we? Any constraints - time/money? What region are we going to focus on? Do we have a goal in mind? I'm assuming a product like this does not exist in today's world. How do you define kids - any specific age range? User Segments - 1) Beginner - don't know what an ATM is/don't understand money that well 2) Intermediate - have a basic understanding of ATMs 3) Advanced - have a really good understanding - maybe are on the older side Segment chosen is the Intermediate"See full answer

Taha U. - "In details: setting k=1 in KNN makes the model fit very closely to the training data, capturing a lot of the data's noise and leading to a model that may not generalize well to unseen data. This results in a high-variance scenario."See full answer

Anonymous Koala - "Google mission==>organize world info and make it accessible to user Monetize from Ad revenue, enterprise productivity service, Developers Google glass provides==>smart  virtual screen , hands free voice commands activated glass for for $1000+. Fits in google mission If google is to launch google glass the key metrics of success would be Number of glasses purchase Usage in term of google search, texts, play video, take picture other activities performed Previous pitfalls "See full answer

Steve M. - "def split_count(s): return 2**(len(s)-1) `"See full answer

Exponent - "The key to this is to be concise and specific. You won't need to code as a product manager, but understanding technology is important. Only give enough information to validate your knowledge. By speaking too much, you may make a mistake (if you're not technical). > Sure! I'll list the first five I can think of off the top of my head. There's a login endpoint that logs a user in, a signup endpoint to sign up a user, there's likely an endpoint to grab a list of songs to display in a playlist, a su"See full answer

Richard B. - "Select interface, Count(case when issuccessfulpost then 1 end) as post_success, Count() as postattempt, ROUND((COUNT(CASE WHEN issuccessfulpost THEN 1 END) * 100 / COUNT()), 2) AS postsuccess_rate from post where interface like 'Iphone%' group by 1 order by postsuccessrate desc `"See full answer

Sri V. - "First, I'd like to ask some clarifying questions and try to narrow down the scope of this question. Among them I would like to ask: a) How is the behaviour of pricing today? b) Are we looking to optimize a specific goal or a metric ? Ex: Click thru rate, Conversions etc. c) Exactly when user is searching for a product. d) what is dynamic pricing? - Pricing based on demand, inventory availability, user behavior etc. I'd now like to go thru a five step process to answer: a) Hypothesis:"See full answer

Nidhi S. - "I am a book reader, so I use "goodreads" by amazon to track my reading. There are couple of things which can be done to increase user engagement on app. User engagement on goodread is creating profile tagging books - want to read, reading, completed marking up progress on daily reading. Engaging with friends and their feedback about books. Solutioning at each steps Creating profile - App respond time is 2-3 min, which is very slow as compared to any general app,its circling"See full answer

Zakery K. - "I told a story about having good intentions to help out a superior with a problem but I did so without seeking buy-in (permission) first. While I did solve the problem and provided value to him and my other colleagues, I was reprimanded for crossing boundaries and not respecting his privacy (I accessed his computer without his permission to deliver a resolution to a problem). While I had good intentions and the outcome was good, my approach left me with a negative mark and a life long lesson r"See full answer

M N. - "To clarify, Lyft currently uses dynamic pricing which means the price of a ride is not constant and depends on multiple factors. Let's keep only the car rides on Lyft with driver-rider as customers in the current scope and ignore other product offerings such as bikes, scooters. Should we improve the current dynamic pricing model or design dynamic pricing assuming it doesn't exist? Let's assume latter. Let's assume this dynamic pricing applies to entire US market. Now let's see what factors I"See full answer

Josephine F. - "How do you ensure that your process maps accurately reflect current workflows in a university?"See full answer

Nouna J. - "If this question was for a product manager; I would approach it as I don't really know how actually these vehicles work. I will try to simplify the concept and answer questions like why autonomous vehicles are exists and what is the purpose of them. Autonomous vehicle is a vehicle can do some actions on behalf on a human and as main reason is to increase the safety, so to come up into how they work, I should identify the main actions that human does and prioritize it based on what they may"See full answer

Ash I. - "Refer https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/good-product-managers-great-shreyas-doshi/"See full answer

Akash A. - "not able to understand the accent of the candidate"See full answer

Anonymous Cheetah - "First profile the URL/Webpage to see which components are limiting/blocking the loading of Web page. Based on the observation, identify if it is the latency, server, network or the sheer number of elements that make up the page. Accordingly plan the optimization strategy."See full answer