Interview Questions

George A. - "strengths- Working with engineering, working with metrics, execution Weakness- ideation and visioning, working with design"See full answer

S G. - "If it's a product end to end, then there's a lot to say. If it's just a feature on top of a product then I will focus on the complexity and how I break complex tasks into small milestones to partner with XFN teams to nail it. Focus on situation, task, actions and results"See full answer

Arya R. - "I'm going to assume the problem is limited until the point of where the rider get into the car. Rider segments/characteristics: Local rider (lives and travels in the same city) Tourist rider (visiting a city, using Lyft for the first time in the city) Lets think about some problems for these types of users: Local rider: (Choose to prioritize on these use-cases assuming its a larger % of rides overall) Ride shows as confirmed, but driver does not move on the map Driver does"See full answer

Soma R. - "SELECT a.marketing_channel, AVG(a.purchasevalue) AS avgpurchase_value, SUM(CASE WHEN a.purchasevalue > 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) * 100 / COUNT(a.sessionid) AS conversion_rate FROM attribution a LEFT JOIN user_sessions u ON a.sessionid = u.sessionid GROUP BY a.marketing_channel ORDER BY conversion_rate DESC; "See full answer

Jim T. - "In the end I said number of bookings, but explained how I would get there. I talked about the company's mission first (which I didn't know but guessed it was something about making it easier or more accessible for people to travel) and then talked about a few potential metrics that could fit (bookings, NPS, etc). But in the end I explained that number of bookings is not only tied to their core value proposition, but it also reflected a happy customer base on both sides of the transaction (renter"See full answer

Jack F. - "This is an estimation question - the goal is to show your thought process to the interviewer how you think through the question Let's make some assumptions - we are only focused on the TAM for Capital One's new potential card For the purpose of scoping this more narrowly let's assume we are solely focused on the U.S. Let's continue to scope in... 1). We know the United States population is somewhere in the ballpark of ~330MM (let's use round figures) 2). You should have some due dili"See full answer

Ben G. - "In my time as a product designer, I’ve seen a transition of growth from something that is visually appealing to what is actually useful / functional / scalable. I think as designers, we are afraid to let things go such as the visual fidelity of design and how something could be useful but not necessarily have the flash of a more consumer based product. I think when we learn to let that go, we can see the scale of our impact and that we aren’t just people who make something look good/pretty but t"See full answer

L B. - "For data distribution drift: DL Divergence or PSI (Population Stability Index) performance: two categories: 1st operational metrics: runtime. 2nd model performance: loss function, MAE (regression), business metrics: overall watch time, DAU, revenue lift etc Outlier: data distribution"See full answer

BePostive - "· How well the team is self-motivated and contributing overall success of the company by releasing high quality bug prone releases · Growth of their team members · Does the manager encouraging and supporting career switch based on the individual desire or passion"See full answer

Surbhi G. - "While serverless computing has its merits due to removing the need for server management and auto-scaling abilities, several challenges might arise when deploying machine learning models using this setup. Cold-start latency is a key issue where an Amazon Lambda function, for example, would take more time than usual to run after being idle. This could affect the performance of real-time ML applications negatively. A way to keep the functions warm might be required to avoid this latency. Moreover,"See full answer

Unicorn 2. - "Clarifying questions: What is leisure travel? Assuming : Travel for vacation not business What is the vision/mission of the company that we are developing this for (I would like to keep this as an anchor to any users, pain points, solutions that we pick) Assuming : Brand new company - startup. Nothing specific in vision/mission for now. When we say travel user experience -> Do we have an existing product that we want to improve on? Is yes, is there any particular complaint or metric issue rel"See full answer

Adib M. - "Situation: introduced to a new technology that I have never used before. I have used many different packaged software, tools and technologies and I can grasp things quickly. Lets assume this new technology is a Planning tool for TPM (Planr) Target: To get familiar with Planr, its use cases, learn it well enough to be able to use it Action: Here are some of the actions I would take to learn Planr well (1) Find documentation on Planr = various use cases, see screenshots, watch demos,"See full answer

Scott S. - " Situation Our data engineering team was tasked with developing a new real-time analytics platform for derivatives trading. To ensure the project’s success, we needed buy-in and support from various non-technical teams, including finance, compliance, and senior management. These teams needed to understand the importance of the project, the resources required, and how it would benefit the organization. Task My task was to effectively communicate the technical requirements and benefits of"See full answer

Ram - "Clarification: Are we talking about creating an experience or product as part of another product or from 0→1? Encourage - the goal is to increase % of citizen vote. Or want to vote? Vote - are we talking about national elections? Am I a product manager for the government? Any focus on geo, segment, or platform? Context - why do we want to do it? Did we experience a recent decline? Could it be hardware or software only? Digital or physical? Structure: Context "See full answer

Exponent - "This is a Favorite Product question with a slight twist. We have a constraint: picking a physical product. This should be relatively easy since you use physical products personally every day. Let's go over the Favorite Product formula before we begin: Choose a product and briefly explain what it is Who are the users? What are their pain points? How did competitors solve it in the past? How does this product address these pain points differently and better? "See full answer

M N. - "Goal: Merchant growth. Any new market/category? downstream is revenue growth Users: small, medium, large (plus) Focusing on small - biggest, highest need rn Focus on small - entrepreneurs, offline to online, switchers picking entre Needs: onboarding catalog creation inventory mgmt order mgmt fulfillment Not enough tech resources for marketing&ads onboarding personalized onboarding based on product,size,location,experience, target segment s"See full answer