Interview Questions

Sergio C. - "There are many places where you can gather feedback. We can divide the feedback from external and internal sources External sources: facebook twitter reddit G2. Internal sources: on-app surveys or chats support Support engineers Sellers Recordings or notes from other PMs However, you always have to talk with the customers so customer interviews are very important. "See full answer

Gopal D. - "(Like a Rummy Game) There are 3 colors of tiles. Each tile has a number 1-9 on it. So the 27-tile set makes a deck. There are 4 decks. (Total = 108 tiles) Tile Colors = {Red, Black, Green} The tiles could be grouped together in patterns Types of patterns : The three tiles are identical (R2, R2, R2) The three tiles are of same color and sequential (R2, R3, R4). Sequence cannot be overlapping (R8, R9, R1 is not a pattern) Help : Tile Notations - R2 denotes Red tile having num 2 A player"See full answer

Sandhya P. - "What is Meta Quest, Horizon world VR game? Horizons worlds is a platform that lets creators build worlds where real people can come and interact. This could be a gaming world, a socializing world, a marketplace, immersive experience, etc. Why would people want to use Horizon worlds: Because it isn’t possible to always visit all places in person I know that Meta has been encouraging creators at this time because the Horizon’s worlds needs a lot of worlds for it to be interesting for customers Cus"See full answer

Karthik T. - "Our application has millions of users and significant load on file upload feature. Situation : In our legacy application we had a particular page which was accepting file uploads and it had the legacy way of selecting file uploads and page would redirect you to the next page or show an error message on failure. Task : I had regular calls with the customer who had reported issue multiple times on this application area. In my calls my I also understood that client was expecting some inno"See full answer

Rasheek N. - "Clarify: I have some clarifying questions I would like to get answered Is this a podcast app that uses Netflix actors/actresses/producers/etc? Is this available to everyone or just Netflix subscribers? How is this product presented? Is it apart of the Netflix app or its own separate app? Goals: First thing first is to understand Netflix. Netflix is a streaming platform that differentiates itself by being the first platform that creates its own original content. It is facing massi"See full answer

Jagriti C. - "Clarifying questions: Will this be within the facebook blue app or will this interface/app sit separately? Volunteering can be of a few types- say for social causes or volunteering in college fest/ music fest etc. Is there a specific type of volunteering we need to consider? Let's start by revisiting company's mission statement and see if this gels with the mission- Meta's mission- To give power to build community and bring the world closer together. Volunteering is basically a way for hu"See full answer

Amparo L. - "Some coworkers say to me that I'm a hard worker, but some say that I can be a little loud while I'm working, So then when I get that feedback I would say I'm sorry that you felt that way and I will promise I will work on it."See full answer

Garima B. - "I faltered on this question. I haven't given a PMM interview in a very long time since I moved from marketing to pure product management. I chose DownDog Yoga App as my preferred app, since I use either either their sleep meditations or the yoga app thrice a week. The feature that was introduced was Aerial Yoga (the interviewer made it as a feature) I went with the assumption that Aerial Yoga is something that needs to be driven off-line rather than online - requires studio space, infrastructr"See full answer

S S. - "Seamless user experience Consistent UI Data mapping Technical architecture of the 2 platforms and their compatibility API integrations Security and compliance factors to consider, impacting from the integration. Feature parity — to carry over features, enhance features, drop features etc Load testing, performance testing and end-to-end testing post integration"See full answer

Sandhya N. - "Clarifying Questions: Discover events, purchase/resell via app Post booking: After ticket purchase to event completion Motivation for Ticketmaster: Strengths: 70-80% of ticketing business, tie ups with venues Competition: meetup Low frequency product - so every experience matters Positive wom: Reduced marketing Retention of users, organizers Users: Ecosystem Attendees: Discover, buy and attend events - {chose this} Event Organizers: marketing/demand, s"See full answer

Anonymous Caribou - "Sales and Delivery app: Ask Clarifying questions: What all parts of the user journey does this app play a role in? All delivery notifications go through this app. Tesla while completing sales does ask its customer to download this app. Sales can be completely done through the app. Sales person at Tesla could be reached through app. App can be used to buy other peripherals for Tesla. Success Metrics: Revenue: \# of car sales completed through the delivery app. \# of peripheral"See full answer

Ishan S. - "I can see that Gen Z (born between 1995 and 2009) needs a redesigned washing machine with a busier life than ever, newer living arrangements, and a longer time frame. Let's try and understand why we need a new product for Gen Z: Clarifying question - 1) Do we have a specific goal while redesigning the machine? Should we optimize for speed, space, or functionalities? (Assume - No) 2) Do we have geographical constraints? Countries have different power and electrical thresholds, which can decide"See full answer

Saurabh J. - "The algorithm calculates certain metrics like entropy & Gini Impurity. The goal of the decision tree algorithm is to find the most optimal value for these metrics, lowest values for Gini Impurity & Entropy. Once it converges on the minima, it creates a split & grows the branches."See full answer

Jake M. - "Random Forest is a machine learning model used for classification problems or regression problems. It can handle binary classification as well as multi-class classification. It is a very efficient model and is great for a baseline or used in a service that needs extremely low latency depending on the size of the model. It's also a good option for wide datasets (dataset with many features) due to it's random subset of features. it is slightly less optimized for deep datasets on very large dataset"See full answer