Interview Questions

S R. - "Did pretty ok. Gathered requirements, back of the envelope calculations and drew out the typical system design with details of components. Dug in deep into each box and probed around why it was needed."See full answer

Shashwat K. - "Binary Search on the array and after than compare the numbers at low and the high pointers whichever is closest is the answer. Because after the binary search low will be pointing to a number which is immediate greater than x and high will be pointing to a number which is immediate lesser than x. int low = 0; int high = n-1; while(low <= high){ int mid = (low + high) / 2; if(x == arr[mid]) return mid; //if x is already present then it will be the closest else if(x < arr[mid]) high"See full answer

Nr 9. - "Assumptions: The question is for a PM working for a refrigerator startup company and for a domestic refrigerator (not industrial). The first model comes in the most commonly used form factor with fridge/freezer split, and it has standard cooling specifications. Target market is the US. The startup is for profit. Product goal: To make interacting with refrigerator easy, seamless and pleasurable for the blind. Target users and channel partners: Fully blind people between the ages o"See full answer

Michelle D. - "I'd first start with confirming my understanding with the interviewer of Spotify's key metric overall. For this exercise, my working assumption of Spotify's north star is time spent listening (TSL, for short), which can be measured daily, weekly, and monthly. As the PM for Discover Weekly, I want to improve Discover Weekly such that I positively impact TSL. As such, my goal is to increase minutes spent listening to Discover Weekly playlists. The primary metric I will want to track is minutes s"See full answer

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

shg - "In my experience, project success translates to three things: Customer Success => Quality increments to service leading to customer success. (Measure by KPIs like customer satisfaction score, SLA, Revenue growth etc) Team Success => High Team morale with successful execution and collaboration of project. Individual Success => Individual career goals and aspirations are met I think the later two are difficult are measured via KPIs. Although there can be indirect KPIs to measure those as we"See full answer

Glados - "Strategy of 15 minute delivery apps. I will discuss what delivery apps are, what is their current business model, examples of some delivery apps, any market metrics/share, opportunity, how 15-minute delivery apps fit in, challenges/opps, what's next, takeaways. Clarifying questions Are we focused on North America? Any other geo? Delivery apps -> Assumed to be food/grocery/alcohol delivery not packages (Amazon)? Assumed delivery apps for end-consumers not large businesses? Delivery apps o"See full answer

Mahesh G. - "Clarifying questions: Is it before pre launch or for it's current business? > Pre launch Goals > Adoption, engagement Can briefly talk about: What the company cares about? (Uber & Uber Eats) Uber: Redefining the world moves for the better Uber Eats: Make eating well effortless at any time, for anyone, anywhere Expectations of consumers and restaurants/Stores Consumers: At one's comfort, one wants the groceries or/and food to be delivered to their"See full answer

Exponent - "This is an Improve a Product question. Let's first go over the Improve a Product formula: Ask clarifying questions Identify users, behaviors, and pain points State product goal Brainstorm small improvements Brainstorm bolder improvements Measure success Summarize Now, let's begin! Ask clarifying questions Before we begin listing off recommendations, it's important you ask questions to ensure you and the interviewer are on the same page"See full answer

Sumeet R. - "Got a very different answer than everybody. I seem to be off here. But here goes ..will appreciate feedback Clarifying ..all human population in US and not just working population? Yes US Population: ~300Mn Segmenting Population. 0-19 - 75M 20-40- 75M 41-60 - 75M 60-80- 75M 80-100 - 5 Mn Removing 80 segment as stay at home and not eligible for commuting Revised Table 2-19 - 75M 20-40- 75M 41-60 - 75M 60-80- 75M Out of this employable audience that is has"See full answer

Pablo S. - "1) Product, the value and the users this business has Product: Yelp is a platform that connects local businesses with people looking for those services. Value: Yelpers can connect with them / book appointments or make reservations with a good amount and quality of reviews per business. For businesses, it is a way to get visibility and find new demand with an easy setup. Users: Local businesses (offering): successful when they are booked. Searchers / demand: successful when"See full answer

Amparo L. - "My favorite app on my phone is Youtube because that way I could watch iCarly videos for free."See full answer

Dev S. - "Clarfying questions : When we say a decrease in users adding the bank accounts. I would like to understand how the users making payments within Venmo I assume they are either using their credit cards/debit cards? I would like to understand why the Adding of Bank Accounts is integral to Venmo since the users are using the debit card and Credit Cards. My understanding is when the payments happen through debit cards rails Venmo pays higher interchange fees and to Reduces any losses incurred"See full answer

Amadea N. - "When designing an app for buying and selling antiques, there are the following objectives: For app users to successfully sell their antiques For app users to successfully buy their preferred antiques For the app to generate revenue through the app Given that the only way to sustainably ensure the app's existence is the guarantee the company remains in business, I'll select objective 3 as the main mission with the other two as leading indicators. In order to get to objective 3, th"See full answer

Wizzy B. - "URL> DNS over UDP> IP address > TCP handshake > HTTP(SSL handshake) req, responses, websites architectures for any query DB, servers."See full answer

Shahrukh K. - "During my initial days as a Product Manager, I faced challenges working with our central design team. The team received requests from multiple Product Managers, and prioritization was often influenced by the rapport each PM had built with them. Since I was new, I struggled to convey the importance of my tasks effectively, leading to delays in my projects. This was a significant learning moment for me. I realized that to succeed, I needed to earn the trust of the design team and demonstra"See full answer

Derrick M. - "SELECT o.order_amount FROM orders o JOIN departments d ON d.departmentid = o.departmentid WHERE d.department_name = 'Fashion' ORDER BY order_amount DESC LIMIT 1 OFFSET 1; `"See full answer

Srihitha J. - "my answer: void* memcpy(void* dest, const void* src, size_t n) { unsigned char* uDest = static_cast(dest); const unsigned char* ucSrc = static_cast(src); for(size_t i= 0; i(dest); const unsigned c"See full answer

Anonymous Hummingbird - "I started going through the different main area of focus stakeholder alignment with Product and engineering; resource alignment getting it into the backlog and then prioritization spoke about Sprint planning and timelines and timely communication back to stakeholders to be on track for this end to end demo / pilot options (but HM already wasn't too happy about the response and asked me the Question again)"See full answer