"One of the biggest risks I have taken was in a recent product, where we developed a new feature and released the feature externally without QA sign-off.
Feature - Interactive Travel Itinerary Maps
We had about ten days from the time we decided to include this new feature in the external launch. Usually, the biggest chunk of time in each release cycle was the sign-off from an external QA team. We fast-tracked the dev effort and completed the development of the feature in five days. Unfortunately,"
R S. - "One of the biggest risks I have taken was in a recent product, where we developed a new feature and released the feature externally without QA sign-off.
Feature - Interactive Travel Itinerary Maps
We had about ten days from the time we decided to include this new feature in the external launch. Usually, the biggest chunk of time in each release cycle was the sign-off from an external QA team. We fast-tracked the dev effort and completed the development of the feature in five days. Unfortunately,"See full answer
"Me: I would first like to ask a few clarifying questions :
Is this tipping issue confined to specific regions?
Is this a new problem, or has it always been present?
Does this issue affect all types of rides offered by Lyft?
Is there a correlation between driver ratings and the likelihood of being tipped?
Interviewer: The problem is widespread across all regions where Lyft operates. It's not new but has been consistent over time. The lower tipping rate is uniform across all ride types, i"
Ankit M. - "Me: I would first like to ask a few clarifying questions :
Is this tipping issue confined to specific regions?
Is this a new problem, or has it always been present?
Does this issue affect all types of rides offered by Lyft?
Is there a correlation between driver ratings and the likelihood of being tipped?
Interviewer: The problem is widespread across all regions where Lyft operates. It's not new but has been consistent over time. The lower tipping rate is uniform across all ride types, i"See full answer
"Clarifying questions
What is Facebook Events
How does this work
Is it only desktop based or app based as well
Why Meta built it
Core idea/tenet for Facebook is to have user engagement & to build everything around it. While people continue to interact with Facebook and create content on it, to increase the duration of engagement, having capability to host virtual events ensures community participation and making Facebook go beyond status and photo updates and let people coordinate"
Mohammad M. - "Clarifying questions
What is Facebook Events
How does this work
Is it only desktop based or app based as well
Why Meta built it
Core idea/tenet for Facebook is to have user engagement & to build everything around it. While people continue to interact with Facebook and create content on it, to increase the duration of engagement, having capability to host virtual events ensures community participation and making Facebook go beyond status and photo updates and let people coordinate"See full answer
"Clarifying questions:
How the hiring funnel looks like, where are the main drop offs, what are the longest phases, what systems we have in place for reminders and notifications.
What should be the goal (double conversion, reduce time to hire)
Offered some solutions, analysed them according to ICE framework, highlighter risks linked to solution.
The last question was to pitch my suggested path to management."
Shuly A. - "Clarifying questions:
How the hiring funnel looks like, where are the main drop offs, what are the longest phases, what systems we have in place for reminders and notifications.
What should be the goal (double conversion, reduce time to hire)
Offered some solutions, analysed them according to ICE framework, highlighter risks linked to solution.
The last question was to pitch my suggested path to management."See full answer
"We have observed that DAU have been declining, while MAU has remained constant.
Activity is define as:
Logging in.
Viewing content.
Posting content.
Interacting with other users (likes, comments, etc.).
Daily Active Users (DAU): This measures the number of unique users who engage with Instagram on a daily basis. It indicates how frequently users interact with the platform and reflects its daily stickiness.
Monthly Active Users (MAU): This measures the number of unique users who en"
XYZ - "We have observed that DAU have been declining, while MAU has remained constant.
Activity is define as:
Logging in.
Viewing content.
Posting content.
Interacting with other users (likes, comments, etc.).
Daily Active Users (DAU): This measures the number of unique users who engage with Instagram on a daily basis. It indicates how frequently users interact with the platform and reflects its daily stickiness.
Monthly Active Users (MAU): This measures the number of unique users who en"See full answer
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"Clarify:
What is a transaction in Instagram Shops? Users click on an item and complete the payment in the Instagram Shops interface
How many transactions happen in Instagram shop per day/month?
What percentage of users have completed at least 1 transaction on Instagram Shops in the last year?
Key Metric to improve: # Users completing a transaction
Goals of the Product / Feature:
Meta’s goal is to build community and connect people together
Instagram’s goal is to connect and"
Nikitha G. - "Clarify:
What is a transaction in Instagram Shops? Users click on an item and complete the payment in the Instagram Shops interface
How many transactions happen in Instagram shop per day/month?
What percentage of users have completed at least 1 transaction on Instagram Shops in the last year?
Key Metric to improve: # Users completing a transaction
Goals of the Product / Feature:
Meta’s goal is to build community and connect people together
Instagram’s goal is to connect and"See full answer
"Candidate [Clarifying Question 1] - Does success metric needs to be discussed across any particular stage of user life cycle - Growth , Engagement or Monetisation ?
Interviewer - Let's focus on overall health metrics of the product.
Candidate[Clarifying Question 2] : Does the metrics needs to be presented as an update to CXO in quarterly meetings or monthly meetings or it needs to be presented internally to product / marketing team for detailed analysis ?
Interviewer - Let's sa"
Vivek S. - "Candidate [Clarifying Question 1] - Does success metric needs to be discussed across any particular stage of user life cycle - Growth , Engagement or Monetisation ?
Interviewer - Let's focus on overall health metrics of the product.
Candidate[Clarifying Question 2] : Does the metrics needs to be presented as an update to CXO in quarterly meetings or monthly meetings or it needs to be presented internally to product / marketing team for detailed analysis ?
Interviewer - Let's sa"See full answer
"public static boolean isPalindrome(String str){
boolean flag = true;
int len = str.length()-1;
int j = len;
for(int i=0;i<=len/2;i++){
if(str.charAt(i)!=str.charAt(j--)){
flag = false;
break;
}
}
return flag;
}"
Sravanthi M. - "public static boolean isPalindrome(String str){
boolean flag = true;
int len = str.length()-1;
int j = len;
for(int i=0;i<=len/2;i++){
if(str.charAt(i)!=str.charAt(j--)){
flag = false;
break;
}
}
return flag;
}"See full answer
"I will first start with listing down the GOALS of Google Sheets as a product
GOALS:
Enable better collaboration amongst employees in an organisation
Make edits parallel
Share with co-workers so that the team can work seamlessly
Increase user engagement, activity and make more users aware about the functionality and usefulness of Google Sheets
Next, i will try and list the broader ACTIONS a user might take
ACTIONS:
Create a new Google Sheet
Share with co-workers
M"
Prateek G. - "I will first start with listing down the GOALS of Google Sheets as a product
GOALS:
Enable better collaboration amongst employees in an organisation
Make edits parallel
Share with co-workers so that the team can work seamlessly
Increase user engagement, activity and make more users aware about the functionality and usefulness of Google Sheets
Next, i will try and list the broader ACTIONS a user might take
ACTIONS:
Create a new Google Sheet
Share with co-workers
M"See full answer
"Request inputs/feedback on my response below with regards to this question and ways to improve and if it looks apt for this question.
As a TPM at xxx, I was responsible for delivering a feature that would provide prescription (medications) alternatives to users in the Prescription Shopping Consumer Experience App. The project had a tight deadline as it was something that our account management team promised to a client who wanted it for their employees. My goal was to ensure smooth development"
Pavani B. - "Request inputs/feedback on my response below with regards to this question and ways to improve and if it looks apt for this question.
As a TPM at xxx, I was responsible for delivering a feature that would provide prescription (medications) alternatives to users in the Prescription Shopping Consumer Experience App. The project had a tight deadline as it was something that our account management team promised to a client who wanted it for their employees. My goal was to ensure smooth development"See full answer
"Step 1: Clarifying the Problem Scope
We will focus on designing the leaderboard for Dream11 with these assumptions:
Registered teams: 100,000 users are actively participating and ranked.
Real-time updates: Leaderboard updates frequently as players accumulate points based on live sports events.
Multiple leagues: Each user can participate in different leagues, so we will need to maintain a separate leaderboard for each league.
Query efficiency: Users frequently"
Ramendra S. - "Step 1: Clarifying the Problem Scope
We will focus on designing the leaderboard for Dream11 with these assumptions:
Registered teams: 100,000 users are actively participating and ranked.
Real-time updates: Leaderboard updates frequently as players accumulate points based on live sports events.
Multiple leagues: Each user can participate in different leagues, so we will need to maintain a separate leaderboard for each league.
Query efficiency: Users frequently"See full answer
"Clarifying Questions & Assumptions:
Blue collar :relating to manual work or workers, particularly in industry, they usually dont have college degree
Linkedin: a social network that focuses on professional networking and career development.
Why is linkedin expanding to blue collar workers?
Ans: to expand new market as they have great untapped potential
Do you want anew app or integrate it with Linkedin?
Ans: you decide
I would like to look more into the problem space before deciding on tha"
D J. - "Clarifying Questions & Assumptions:
Blue collar :relating to manual work or workers, particularly in industry, they usually dont have college degree
Linkedin: a social network that focuses on professional networking and career development.
Why is linkedin expanding to blue collar workers?
Ans: to expand new market as they have great untapped potential
Do you want anew app or integrate it with Linkedin?
Ans: you decide
I would like to look more into the problem space before deciding on tha"See full answer
"Used Recursive approach to traverse the binary search tree and sum the values of the nodes that fall within the specified range [low, high]"
Srikant V. - "Used Recursive approach to traverse the binary search tree and sum the values of the nodes that fall within the specified range [low, high]"See full answer
"Clarifying Questions
Are we building feature for YouTube Music/YouTube Video? -> YT Video has higher scope of user engagement so YT Video.
YT Video has 2 forms of video content, are we focusing on long form, short form or am I free to chose ? -> YT Shorts and short videos have taken off lately so focus on it.
Do we have a specific business goal with regards to building this feature ? -> We want to improve engagement.
Do we want to build this feature for a specific kind of audience or"
Mehul K. - "Clarifying Questions
Are we building feature for YouTube Music/YouTube Video? -> YT Video has higher scope of user engagement so YT Video.
YT Video has 2 forms of video content, are we focusing on long form, short form or am I free to chose ? -> YT Shorts and short videos have taken off lately so focus on it.
Do we have a specific business goal with regards to building this feature ? -> We want to improve engagement.
Do we want to build this feature for a specific kind of audience or"See full answer
"Couple of Clarification Questions to be asked are:
Aim of the physical product
Retention/Encourage Loyalty
Attract new customers
Collect customer Data outside of the Airbnb ecosystem for better advertising and customer focus
User Base of Airbnb
Solotravellers - traveling to new places for exploring/solo travel
Business Travelers - Lot of business Travelers who own small/medium businesses and book their own travel can choose airbnb
Family gr"
Manas M. - "Couple of Clarification Questions to be asked are:
Aim of the physical product
Retention/Encourage Loyalty
Attract new customers
Collect customer Data outside of the Airbnb ecosystem for better advertising and customer focus
User Base of Airbnb
Solotravellers - traveling to new places for exploring/solo travel
Business Travelers - Lot of business Travelers who own small/medium businesses and book their own travel can choose airbnb
Family gr"See full answer
"Context:
While working as a Senior Systems Engineer at Indra on a project for BBVA, I was primarily responsible for building ETLs and optimizing data pipelines using Spark and Scala.
Action:
During a critical deployment phase, our QA lead had to leave unexpectedly due to a personal emergency. With no one available to manage testing coordination, I volunteered to step in — even though it wasn’t my formal responsibility. I quickly reviewed the test cases, communicated with stakeholders, an"
Otto yhoda A. - "Context:
While working as a Senior Systems Engineer at Indra on a project for BBVA, I was primarily responsible for building ETLs and optimizing data pipelines using Spark and Scala.
Action:
During a critical deployment phase, our QA lead had to leave unexpectedly due to a personal emergency. With no one available to manage testing coordination, I volunteered to step in — even though it wasn’t my formal responsibility. I quickly reviewed the test cases, communicated with stakeholders, an"See full answer