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  • Anthropic logoAsked at Anthropic 
    2 answers

    "We will have to use a second more powerful LLM Model to validate the answers. LLM as a judge"

    Anonymous Partridge - "We will have to use a second more powerful LLM Model to validate the answers. LLM as a judge"See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Artificial Intelligence
    +4 more
  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    15 answers
    +12

    "Clarifying question: why would Google consider sunsetting Gmail? Is there an opportunity to make a case against sunsetting or has the executive decision already been made and we're truly looking for a flawless sunset? If decision has already been made - why? Is this a global decision or country-specific? If the answer from interviewer is that the decision is open to debate, pivot case toward identifying the problem that causes leadership to even consider sunset. Then analyze and propose ways to"

    Anonymous Sparrow - "Clarifying question: why would Google consider sunsetting Gmail? Is there an opportunity to make a case against sunsetting or has the executive decision already been made and we're truly looking for a flawless sunset? If decision has already been made - why? Is this a global decision or country-specific? If the answer from interviewer is that the decision is open to debate, pivot case toward identifying the problem that causes leadership to even consider sunset. Then analyze and propose ways to"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Strategy
  • +1

    "understand the top priorities and rank each feature based on value and effort criteria. Scope: emphasize on clarity and risk assessment of the features. In tough deadlines what is must within the feature. highlight the tradeoff early based on the above two"

    Anchal V. - "understand the top priorities and rank each feature based on value and effort criteria. Scope: emphasize on clarity and risk assessment of the features. In tough deadlines what is must within the feature. highlight the tradeoff early based on the above two"See full answer

    Technical Program Manager
    Program Sense
  • Revolut logoAsked at Revolut 
    5 answers
    +1

    "Clarify understanding of the problem space. What does success look like? How is it measured? Platform specific? Market specific? Time period? Business goals? Then perform a funnel analysis to understand user journey and look for problems or opportunities. Choose a user segment to focus on. Identify different user segments and prioritise one. Summarise the goal of the user and the friction point. Brainstorm solutions. Come up with a number of rough solutions. Balance the business n"

    Alice S. - "Clarify understanding of the problem space. What does success look like? How is it measured? Platform specific? Market specific? Time period? Business goals? Then perform a funnel analysis to understand user journey and look for problems or opportunities. Choose a user segment to focus on. Identify different user segments and prioritise one. Summarise the goal of the user and the friction point. Brainstorm solutions. Come up with a number of rough solutions. Balance the business n"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Strategy
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
    13 answers
    Video answer for 'Tell me about a time when you proposed an idea that was not agreed on.'
    +10

    "Disagreement --> persistent ---> more data insights ---> positive relationship ---> mentor/trust"

    Sam - "Disagreement --> persistent ---> more data insights ---> positive relationship ---> mentor/trust"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
    +2 more
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  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    25 answers
    +21

    "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

    Product Manager
    Analytical
  • Meta logoAsked at Meta 
    29 answers
    +26

    "How would you monetize messenger? Clarifying Questions Is this messenger app or web? INTERVIEWER: Assume both are a possibility, but feel free to pick one Is there a larger facebook goal or metric we are optimizing for? INTERVIEWER: Monetization speaks to revenue so assume goal is to increase revenue for Facebook as a whole Does this include messenger Rooms or should we stick to the traditional FB messenger? INTERVIEWER: _Messenger rooms is a great call out, but let's stick"

    Jay C. - "How would you monetize messenger? Clarifying Questions Is this messenger app or web? INTERVIEWER: Assume both are a possibility, but feel free to pick one Is there a larger facebook goal or metric we are optimizing for? INTERVIEWER: Monetization speaks to revenue so assume goal is to increase revenue for Facebook as a whole Does this include messenger Rooms or should we stick to the traditional FB messenger? INTERVIEWER: _Messenger rooms is a great call out, but let's stick"See full answer

    Product Design
    Product Strategy
  • Meta logoAsked at Meta 
    27 answers
    +24

    "Assuming this is meant to be a standalone product. Its a standalone app. Goal: Simplify the shopping experience in store for a user. Success would be defined in terms of app usage as a proxy for user satisfaction. I want to think about the a given user segment, their pain points, ways to improve their pain and a way to evaluate those solutions. Broadly user personas associated with grocery shopping are - stores and customers. For the purpose of this interview I want to focus on customer se"

    P K. - "Assuming this is meant to be a standalone product. Its a standalone app. Goal: Simplify the shopping experience in store for a user. Success would be defined in terms of app usage as a proxy for user satisfaction. I want to think about the a given user segment, their pain points, ways to improve their pain and a way to evaluate those solutions. Broadly user personas associated with grocery shopping are - stores and customers. For the purpose of this interview I want to focus on customer se"See full answer

    Product Design
  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    17 answers
    Video answer for 'What metrics would you focus on as the PM for YouTube?'
    +14

    "1. Step 1: clarify Let's establish the mission of Google and Youtube. Google's is to provide and make information more accessible. Youtube's might be to help people get their content, their word and themselves out into the world. I mean so many of Youtube's ads have been about how the diversity of individuals and their content, so that makes sense. Let's establish what is Youtube. Youtube has 3 primary stakeholders - creators, viewers and brands/corporations and within them"

    Karthik M. - "1. Step 1: clarify Let's establish the mission of Google and Youtube. Google's is to provide and make information more accessible. Youtube's might be to help people get their content, their word and themselves out into the world. I mean so many of Youtube's ads have been about how the diversity of individuals and their content, so that makes sense. Let's establish what is Youtube. Youtube has 3 primary stakeholders - creators, viewers and brands/corporations and within them"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Analytical
  • TikTok logoAsked at TikTok 
    2 answers

    "CQs: Content moderation system finds Inappropriate contents - profanity, violence, privacy concerning. Misinformation - false info, false claim, fomenting wrong views PII Misinformation → Wrong info Twisted info Incomplete info Goal - reliability and trust on the platform Long term increased engagement on informational content RAG system - what and why? RAG system has 3 components Brain - reasoning models Tool"

    Sumit P. - "CQs: Content moderation system finds Inappropriate contents - profanity, violence, privacy concerning. Misinformation - false info, false claim, fomenting wrong views PII Misinformation → Wrong info Twisted info Incomplete info Goal - reliability and trust on the platform Long term increased engagement on informational content RAG system - what and why? RAG system has 3 components Brain - reasoning models Tool"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Artificial Intelligence
    +1 more
  • American Express logoAsked at American Express 
    3 answers

    "Thanks you for sharing insight about the app which I would liek to summarize in 2 structures: functional 2 technical requirement. Requirements: Functional requirement: Able to share messages, siles , and other content like photos, sounds Create groups for conversaion Size: 500 million users, 50m DAU -> 500M active chats daily Files not stored in the system but is can be shared.. Integaration with other APPs Technical requirement: Availability: Can you help me to understand the a"

    Istvan K. - "Thanks you for sharing insight about the app which I would liek to summarize in 2 structures: functional 2 technical requirement. Requirements: Functional requirement: Able to share messages, siles , and other content like photos, sounds Create groups for conversaion Size: 500 million users, 50m DAU -> 500M active chats daily Files not stored in the system but is can be shared.. Integaration with other APPs Technical requirement: Availability: Can you help me to understand the a"See full answer

    Engineering Manager
    System Design
    +2 more
  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    46 answers
    +40

    "Clarifying Questions: Assume US Audience or Worldwide? US Only Assume short form content or long form content ? Assume all Premium or Ads Support ? All Solution: US Population 300M Will remove 70 ages as not relevant audience or not have access to YouTube = 60m Leaving 240M. Adoption of YouTube with remaining Population = 60% (including overlap and exclusion with other services e.g. Netflix) Total Audience that watches YouTube daily = 144m (about half of US Populat"

    Sumeet R. - "Clarifying Questions: Assume US Audience or Worldwide? US Only Assume short form content or long form content ? Assume all Premium or Ads Support ? All Solution: US Population 300M Will remove 70 ages as not relevant audience or not have access to YouTube = 60m Leaving 240M. Adoption of YouTube with remaining Population = 60% (including overlap and exclusion with other services e.g. Netflix) Total Audience that watches YouTube daily = 144m (about half of US Populat"See full answer

    Estimation
  • Anthropic logoAsked at Anthropic 
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    Software Engineer
    Coding
  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    12 answers
    +9

    "I learned that people and teams build great products, not processes and job descriptions. The quality of the teamwork will directly reflect in the quality of the product. My biggest failure as a product manager was failing to build a foundation of teamwork before starting a project with a new cross-functional team. As the PM of a new product, I like to get my engineers involved early and often in the design process, but tight schedules with an even tighter resources made the tension and st"

    Issac K. - "I learned that people and teams build great products, not processes and job descriptions. The quality of the teamwork will directly reflect in the quality of the product. My biggest failure as a product manager was failing to build a foundation of teamwork before starting a project with a new cross-functional team. As the PM of a new product, I like to get my engineers involved early and often in the design process, but tight schedules with an even tighter resources made the tension and st"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
    3 answers

    "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

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
    +1 more
  • Adobe logoAsked at Adobe 
    7 answers
    +4

    "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

    Quantitative Trader
    Behavioral
    +1 more
  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    3 answers

    "Firstly, In designing a denoising system for sounds, I would start by clarifying the type of noise either stationary or non-stationary and application constraints which are the latency, scalability, accuracy and deployability. For real-time systems like Google meet, I will prefer a hybrid DSP + ML model like RNNoise. For batch processing like YouTube audio enhancement, a deep learn-based system such as Demucs or SEGAN would work well. Then I will need to evaluate how well the system improves aud"

    Precious H. - "Firstly, In designing a denoising system for sounds, I would start by clarifying the type of noise either stationary or non-stationary and application constraints which are the latency, scalability, accuracy and deployability. For real-time systems like Google meet, I will prefer a hybrid DSP + ML model like RNNoise. For batch processing like YouTube audio enhancement, a deep learn-based system such as Demucs or SEGAN would work well. Then I will need to evaluate how well the system improves aud"See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    System Design
  • Discord logoAsked at Discord 
    11 answers
    Video answer for 'Describe a time when your project failed.'
    +7

    "I feel this is more about "Describe a time when I failed or struggled" rather than "Project Failure"."

    Anjali V. - "I feel this is more about "Describe a time when I failed or struggled" rather than "Project Failure"."See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
    +3 more
  • Meta logoAsked at Meta 
    2 answers

    "Answer generated using AI plugin: https://github.com/buildforward/product-sense-interview-answer Section 1 — Clarify (~2 min) Before I dive in, I'd like to ask a couple of clarifying questions to make sure I'm solving the right problem. What do we mean by "engaging"? Hashtags can drive discovery, community, creation, or interaction. I'll assume we're focused on making hashtags more engaging for content consumers — increasing the time people spend exploring and interacting with"

    Elly P. - "Answer generated using AI plugin: https://github.com/buildforward/product-sense-interview-answer Section 1 — Clarify (~2 min) Before I dive in, I'd like to ask a couple of clarifying questions to make sure I'm solving the right problem. What do we mean by "engaging"? Hashtags can drive discovery, community, creation, or interaction. I'll assume we're focused on making hashtags more engaging for content consumers — increasing the time people spend exploring and interacting with"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
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