Interview Questions

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

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

Joohi M. - "Drew a framework - Where are we - do competitive analysis of the company Where do we want to go - Align business strategy with product strategy What can we do in the given roadmap - prioritize solutions"See full answer

Khushbu R. - "Let’s say the matrix is m x n (i.e., m rows and n columns). Start from the top-right corner of the matrix. Move left if you see a 1. Move down if you see a 0. Keep track of the row index where you last saw the leftmost 1 — that row has the most 1s. public class MaxOnesRow { public static int rowWithMostOnes(int matrix) { int rows = matrix.length; int cols = matrix[0].length; int maxRowIndex = -1; int j = cols - 1; /"See full answer

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

Vivek S. - "Hey team, the title says a "GTM campaign" whereas the video is about "favorite marketing campaign" example. Are they supposed to be the same? If not, can you please fix it?"See full answer

Andrew M. - "DMV is the Department for Motor Vehicles, notorious for long wait times and an overall poor customer experience. I'm not familiar with the different functions that the DMV serves, but from my understanding, people go to the DMV when they want to renew their drivers licenses, so I would like to focus on that for now. Current experience: Long wait time to get drivers license photo taken I am really not familiar with any other services the DMV provides, so I will focus on taking photos. Pain"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

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

Amparo L. - "My parents because they take really good care of me whenever I feel sick"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

Will P. - "The first step is to clarify what the interviewer means by a sales decline. Questions I would ask here include: Did sales drop suddenly or gradually? What is the magnitude of the sales drop? Are sales down for a specific product? Are sales down for a specific channel (drive-thru, walk-in, etc.)? This series of questions is to make sure we are on the same page when we say 'sales are down.' We may not know the why yet, but the what should be easy to align on. Otherwise, how would"See full answer

A B. - "Followed Clarifying questions - why this product - competition - Meta's mission - product vision - user segments - prioritize and Why - pain points for prioritized segment - prioritize pain points - list solutions - tradeoff - North star - summerize "See full answer

Samiksha D. - "I assume here that the elderly person does not have much knowledge about technology and the internet. I would like to structure my answer in this way: Concepts of twitter I want the elderly to know. Take an analogy to explain the concepts. Connect the dots between the analogy back to the app. Twitter concepts : A common feed to look at the tweets created by the people in your network. Concept of retweeting. Chatting. Comments/likes. Analogy : Imagine there is an office wi"See full answer

Irina L. - "I’ve named Netflix, Acloset, Youtube music. Focused of YouTube music, increasing social interaction of existing users."See full answer

Hari priya K. - "Hey Grandma, you've had a lot of experience with infants, haven't you? When they were babies, you taught them how to chew in their first six months. This initial phase is like giving them data. Once they learned how to chew, they could handle any food you gave them. Next, you refined their learning by teaching them that they should only chew on food. This is like refining the data so they understand what is relevant. Then, a few months later, they started crawling and walking, learning by observ"See full answer

onering2ruleall - "Total volume of the swimming pool, let's say it's a standard 50m x 25 m x 2m =2500 m3 = 2.5 million litter standard water horse water flow rate is 17 liter per min. So, 2.5 m / 17 =147,059 min"See full answer

Sandeep B. - "This is my first attempt. Requesting feedback - Design a bookshelf for the users. I would like to create a framework to solve this problem and follow it. It will have the below sections - Goals User Persona Use Cases Pain Points Features Prioritization Metrics Few clarifying questions - What is the objective of doing this? (User engagement, matching a product that a competition has just launched) What type of industry we are in? (Are we a furniture design company, ar"See full answer