Interview Questions

Scott S. - " Situation In the derivatives trading domain, timely and accurate data is crucial for making informed trading decisions. Our existing data processing system was facing challenges with latency and scalability, which hindered our ability to react swiftly to market changes. To address these issues, we designed a new real-time market data processing platform. Task The task was to develop a low-latency data processing platform that could handle real-time market data ingestion, processing, an"See full answer

Mukul P. - "Here are some strategies to mitigate the effects of organizational and architectural dependencies on a team's work. Automation Where possible, automate repetitive tasks, and include appropriate controls to ensure safety. For example, automate deployments, building in all needed safety and compliance checks, and let teams perform the process themselves, rather than having them back up in the Ops team’s queue. Standardize processes Even if you can’t automate a process, make it happen the s"See full answer

Cameron P. - "Estimate the market size for Google Fi Market size -> total revenue/sales in a market = market share Google Fi -> telecommunication services by google. Only for US market Market size = (1)google fi customers / (2)total customers in the market (2)total customers in the market 300m ppl in the US 0-90 life expectancy Factor out 0-12,80-90 240m ~250m ppl in the US who are using phones and need a telecommunication service (1)google fi customers Version 40% - 110m AT&T 30% - 70m T-Mobil"See full answer

M N. - "Why do we want to build an ad platform? Should we discuss if we should/should not do this? Or have we decided? Let's say we decided. Now what's the goal of ad platform? Additional revenue stream. We need to make sure the ads we show don't distract our users from the core product but help our users with their financial needs through relevant advertisements. It might not be a bad idea to monetize the 13M users as long as we're connecting them with the right brands/services. Now let's look at the"See full answer

Shubham A. - "I was working in a Silicon Validation group and the roadmap for all validation strategy was defined, But the problem with that was it was as with the roadmap given, the quality would have compromised and hence, I raised a concern regarding the quality of the product. Initially the team members were not convinced, I borrowed a week's time with them and scheduled another meeting and brought up all the data(high level) which we should be covering during the validation timeframe. Also added tentati"See full answer

Marcos G. - "with my_table as (select * , rownumber() over(order by customerid) as row_index from customers) select customer_id, customer_name from my_table where row_index % 3 = 0"See full answer

Garrett M. - "Do they ask these kinds of rapid fire questions?"See full answer

Saurabh K. - "P(A) = 0.6 P(B) = 0.4 P(D|A) = 0.05 P(D|B) = 0.03 Question asks to solve for P(A|D) P(A|D) = (P(D|A) x P(A))/P(D) = (0.05 x 0.6)/(P(D|A) x P(A) + P(D|B) x P(B)) = (0.05 x 0.6)/(0.05 x 0.6+0.03 x 0.4) = 30/42 = 5/7 = 0.714 Notice above that P(D) = P(D|A) x P(A) + P(D|B) x P (B)"See full answer

Rahul P. - "Providing some bullets to expand on to respond to this question- Inability to adapt to the changes in customer's needs in retail industry Lack of competitive analysis Rigid business model Lack of well defined Vision and Strategy"See full answer

Arnab S. - "clarifying questions why are we building this? is there a particular reason we are building this or is there a metric/group of metrics that shall be activated that eventually drives an organisational metric or is it just an attempt of creating another super app? am i safe to assume that i am a part of the team that can actually drive the marketplace experience? and by shopping, we mean a marketplace like an amazon? can i safely set the overarching organisational goal, then the indi"See full answer

Nayla D. - "Instagram is social media app where you can share photo and video to others. Impressions is an important metrics to track because it shows how many contents that users see. Clarify Questions: Is this drop happen suddenly or gradually? - Gradually How long has it been happening? - Last 3 months Is it happen globally or in certain region? - Globally Is the drop happen to all user segments (age, new/existing, active/less active users)? - all user segments When calculating an impressions,"See full answer

Catherine I. - "I always ask to clarify if this is a brand new team. If so, then I focus on bringing in people with strong technical aptitudes(since I'm hiring for software engineering), but also team members that have experience mentoring and good communication is a must. I look for people who have leadership qualities. I emphasize that building a brand new team isn't something I can do on my own, so the initial hires of that team are very important to help me expand it."See full answer

G. D. - "It's possible the Onboarding Flow is fine as it is - but I would do some initial hands-on exploring. I would go through the boarding steps myself. Re-Visit the flow with a clean perspective. Take notes on Pros & Cons. Things I liked. Things I didn't like. Create a table. Brainstrorm some UI / UX / Flow features that could use some improvement. If my simple analysis warranted some more exploration - I would do an informal survey with my immediate internal colleagues - and possibly even my tight"See full answer

Anonymous Elk - "User Interface: The target user here is the staff. Learning something new can be overwhelming, and having a simple and usable interface can help reduce feeling overwhelmed. Instead of a nested or complex learning system, a simple layout with training modules stored within a hamburger paradox and a media player in the center will make the system look cleaner. Gamification: Gamifying the learning content is another great way to keep the audience engaged. Bi-weekly quizzes, along with a sco"See full answer

My N. - "Partner with IoT manufacturer new smart product, phone in the center Bundle google personal security subscription with IoT package Commercial package security, industrial use case medical device, airplane, ship, vehicle management, maintenance and remote usage Public sector smart cities"See full answer

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