"CQs:
Any specific geography? Assuming Indian market
Are we partnering up with some other company for delivery ? Assuming yes
Time frame for MVP? 1 year
Scoped out Problem statement:
Design a food delivery app for restaurant owners for India market within a timeframe of 1 year
Mission of this app:
Helping owners and vendors in smooth coordination of orders and delivering orders on time
Product goal:
Since this is a new product , we will focus on adoption/acquisition in short t"
Rajat A. - "CQs:
Any specific geography? Assuming Indian market
Are we partnering up with some other company for delivery ? Assuming yes
Time frame for MVP? 1 year
Scoped out Problem statement:
Design a food delivery app for restaurant owners for India market within a timeframe of 1 year
Mission of this app:
Helping owners and vendors in smooth coordination of orders and delivering orders on time
Product goal:
Since this is a new product , we will focus on adoption/acquisition in short t"See full answer
"I use a data driven approach by ensuring there is a deep-dive on all alternatives. My approach to tradeoffs is around how to achieve the customer experience needed. I ensure there is an immediate path to green for a solution and a follow-up solution addressing the problem rightly."
Syed I. - "I use a data driven approach by ensuring there is a deep-dive on all alternatives. My approach to tradeoffs is around how to achieve the customer experience needed. I ensure there is an immediate path to green for a solution and a follow-up solution addressing the problem rightly."See full answer
"Prompt - annual cost of managing Google photos (note - I believe Google doesn't ask estimation question anymore, not sure who/here/how this was asked)
We will go over what Google photos is, its users, how they use photos, what costs are incurred, estimation - base case then scale it out, gut check the answers, and arrive at an estimate
Google photos is a photo and video storage service.
Its users are
Content creators/users
Google (hosting)
Other service providers that provide value-add"
Glados - "Prompt - annual cost of managing Google photos (note - I believe Google doesn't ask estimation question anymore, not sure who/here/how this was asked)
We will go over what Google photos is, its users, how they use photos, what costs are incurred, estimation - base case then scale it out, gut check the answers, and arrive at an estimate
Google photos is a photo and video storage service.
Its users are
Content creators/users
Google (hosting)
Other service providers that provide value-add"See full answer
"So basically, we are losing our overall users, we are seeing a drop in the no. of users logging in daily.
Step 1-Clarifying questions:
Is this across any certain segments of users, ike gen-Z or content creators etc?
Is it affecting any particular segment of Instagram like stories, reels, content etc
Step 2-Forming high-level hypothesis:
External factors
-Are competitors like TikTok or YouTube Shorts
-Is it because of any seasonal changes (exam season etc)
Internal factors
-Are u"
Vanitha P. - "So basically, we are losing our overall users, we are seeing a drop in the no. of users logging in daily.
Step 1-Clarifying questions:
Is this across any certain segments of users, ike gen-Z or content creators etc?
Is it affecting any particular segment of Instagram like stories, reels, content etc
Step 2-Forming high-level hypothesis:
External factors
-Are competitors like TikTok or YouTube Shorts
-Is it because of any seasonal changes (exam season etc)
Internal factors
-Are u"See full answer
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"Clarifying questions: When we talk about a 'meditation app', are we mainly focusing on audio content? And are we thinking of this under a big brand or are we a fresh startup? Also, is our main target the US? And, are we designing mainly for individual use, or are we thinking about larger settings like schools?
Interviewer: It's a startup. We're aiming for individual users, mainly in the US, and yes, an audio-based format.
Summary till now: In today's digital age there's an increasi"
Ankit M. - "Clarifying questions: When we talk about a 'meditation app', are we mainly focusing on audio content? And are we thinking of this under a big brand or are we a fresh startup? Also, is our main target the US? And, are we designing mainly for individual use, or are we thinking about larger settings like schools?
Interviewer: It's a startup. We're aiming for individual users, mainly in the US, and yes, an audio-based format.
Summary till now: In today's digital age there's an increasi"See full answer
"Addressed the duality of the feature - each user is a consumer and provider
Addressed pain points such as cleaning, security
"
Adi S. - "Addressed the duality of the feature - each user is a consumer and provider
Addressed pain points such as cleaning, security
"See full answer
"Restaurant Types
High-end
Fast-food
Regular
User Types
Restaurants – seeking operational efficiency and increased revenue.
Customers – categorized by group size and dining intent:
2–4 Friends/Family – casual dining.
Solo Diners – convenience and quick service.
Groups > 4 – shared orders and split bills.
Goal
Design a tablet solution to achieve product-market fit by addressing key pain points and driving high ad"
Brandy L. - "Restaurant Types
High-end
Fast-food
Regular
User Types
Restaurants – seeking operational efficiency and increased revenue.
Customers – categorized by group size and dining intent:
2–4 Friends/Family – casual dining.
Solo Diners – convenience and quick service.
Groups > 4 – shared orders and split bills.
Goal
Design a tablet solution to achieve product-market fit by addressing key pain points and driving high ad"See full answer
"!! FEEDBACK WELCOME !!
Clarify question
By art we mean visual art, e.g. paintings? - Yes
Is this a solution to create art on Instagram or to showcase existing art on Instagram? - Create art
Why build this, Engagement or Acquisition? - Engagement
Reframe: We want to increase Instagram engagement through creation and sharing of art with followers.
Talking about the space
The Internet has over time continuously reduced barriers to creative expression. From blogging to Twitter,"
Apurv K. - "!! FEEDBACK WELCOME !!
Clarify question
By art we mean visual art, e.g. paintings? - Yes
Is this a solution to create art on Instagram or to showcase existing art on Instagram? - Create art
Why build this, Engagement or Acquisition? - Engagement
Reframe: We want to increase Instagram engagement through creation and sharing of art with followers.
Talking about the space
The Internet has over time continuously reduced barriers to creative expression. From blogging to Twitter,"See full answer
"YouTube Goal -> Give voice to everyone and show them the world,
Video -> Shorts( Dominated by Shorts, Reels, Tiktok
Mid(1-25 Min). -> Youtube
Medium Long(60-90 Mins) -> [Opportunity]
Long(150-180 Mins) -> OTT Platform, Movies
Youtube can assist content creators on Youtube to make high-quality Film Like Videos without any Production Setup. Assisting Content Creators to create Movies with"
Anonymous Muskox - "YouTube Goal -> Give voice to everyone and show them the world,
Video -> Shorts( Dominated by Shorts, Reels, Tiktok
Mid(1-25 Min). -> Youtube
Medium Long(60-90 Mins) -> [Opportunity]
Long(150-180 Mins) -> OTT Platform, Movies
Youtube can assist content creators on Youtube to make high-quality Film Like Videos without any Production Setup. Assisting Content Creators to create Movies with"See full answer
"We were working on a very high stake migration project where were suppose to migrate all the traffic (more than 40 million users per day) from legacy to modern micro-services based architecture.
Before making this massive migration decision, company has already developed a lot of services outside monolith and we were suppose to utilise those services. Some these services there were PADs responsible to communicate the specific vendor APIs. For each vendor we had a dedicated PAD.
Fast forward"
Mohammad shahid S. - "We were working on a very high stake migration project where were suppose to migrate all the traffic (more than 40 million users per day) from legacy to modern micro-services based architecture.
Before making this massive migration decision, company has already developed a lot of services outside monolith and we were suppose to utilise those services. Some these services there were PADs responsible to communicate the specific vendor APIs. For each vendor we had a dedicated PAD.
Fast forward"See full answer
"Question for the community: have others experienced a situation where the interviewer really pushed for defining a success metric early on in the case before making too much progress on the case itself? If so, how did you handle?
How I approached the case:
I used the framework taught here on Exponent but have a question for the community.
At the beginning of the interview, I shared my steps - company goals, customer, painpoints, solutions, prioritize and if we had time, I'll explore some succ"
D P. - "Question for the community: have others experienced a situation where the interviewer really pushed for defining a success metric early on in the case before making too much progress on the case itself? If so, how did you handle?
How I approached the case:
I used the framework taught here on Exponent but have a question for the community.
At the beginning of the interview, I shared my steps - company goals, customer, painpoints, solutions, prioritize and if we had time, I'll explore some succ"See full answer
"Let's imagine you want to open Google Maps, you type maps.google.com and hit Enter. Here is what happens:
You type maps.google.com into the address bar of your browser.
Browser completes the address, for example, maps.google.com → https://www.maps.google.com
[Address decoding] → browser breaks down the URL into parts
‘https://’: protocol → how the browser should connect to the website
Default is HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) which shows up as ‘ http:/"
Jasmin R. - "Let's imagine you want to open Google Maps, you type maps.google.com and hit Enter. Here is what happens:
You type maps.google.com into the address bar of your browser.
Browser completes the address, for example, maps.google.com → https://www.maps.google.com
[Address decoding] → browser breaks down the URL into parts
‘https://’: protocol → how the browser should connect to the website
Default is HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) which shows up as ‘ http:/"See full answer
"Gardening product for Meta
Clarifying question:
Is this going to be a new product? Or part of FB/IG?
Gardening as a work? Pleasure?
Lets start with META mission - Meta’s mission is to bring people together and form a community.
In our case of gardening, it can be smart to solve the case of tips and questions, specially for users that just start to do some gardening. Its a nice hobby and can bring people to work together and support each other.
Users
I think I will go and seg"
Rita V. - "Gardening product for Meta
Clarifying question:
Is this going to be a new product? Or part of FB/IG?
Gardening as a work? Pleasure?
Lets start with META mission - Meta’s mission is to bring people together and form a community.
In our case of gardening, it can be smart to solve the case of tips and questions, specially for users that just start to do some gardening. Its a nice hobby and can bring people to work together and support each other.
Users
I think I will go and seg"See full answer
"Best practices for prioritizing customer service requests
Prioritizing support requests is a key part of creating a customer journey optimized for maximum revenue. If you want to start using a ticket prioritization process that will boost both customer satisfaction and your bottom line, we've got nine proven best practices below:
Respond to your most loyal customers first
Tag repeat customers as high-priority tickets
Automate simple requests wherever possible
Mark tickets with urg"
Hayatu H. - "Best practices for prioritizing customer service requests
Prioritizing support requests is a key part of creating a customer journey optimized for maximum revenue. If you want to start using a ticket prioritization process that will boost both customer satisfaction and your bottom line, we've got nine proven best practices below:
Respond to your most loyal customers first
Tag repeat customers as high-priority tickets
Automate simple requests wherever possible
Mark tickets with urg"See full answer
"Clarifying questions :
I would like to confirm what type of parking spots we are talking about, should we assume cars ? Assumption : Cars
Is it referring to only parking spots in non-residential complexes or public places or does it include residential too ?Assumption : both
Assumptions :
Places where we could see parking spots
Shopping malls
Parking in the park
Residence spots
Legal parking spots
Variables in play
Population = assuming a family of 4 => population / 4 (nu"
Karthik T. - "Clarifying questions :
I would like to confirm what type of parking spots we are talking about, should we assume cars ? Assumption : Cars
Is it referring to only parking spots in non-residential complexes or public places or does it include residential too ?Assumption : both
Assumptions :
Places where we could see parking spots
Shopping malls
Parking in the park
Residence spots
Legal parking spots
Variables in play
Population = assuming a family of 4 => population / 4 (nu"See full answer
"Meta Pay - What is it?
Payment platform that lets people buy and send money on Facebook, IG and Instagram
on platforms like FB and IG, people already find things they like and the businesses can sell directly on the platform through shops so Pay is closing the last mile and letting them also check out quickly once they’ve added their card details once. It’s making it a real one-stop shop.
It also allows making more transactions directly on the platform without having to enter card deta"
Rotem L. - "Meta Pay - What is it?
Payment platform that lets people buy and send money on Facebook, IG and Instagram
on platforms like FB and IG, people already find things they like and the businesses can sell directly on the platform through shops so Pay is closing the last mile and letting them also check out quickly once they’ve added their card details once. It’s making it a real one-stop shop.
It also allows making more transactions directly on the platform without having to enter card deta"See full answer
"Ask clarifying questions
1/ Are there any business changes to be aware of?
2/ Youtube Premium already exists so I am guessing we are not revisiting changing the prices just restarting the process from scratch
3/ Pricing for a specific market? North America, Asia, somewhere else?
To tackle this I would break down the problem into a few steps,
What is Google's mission and how Youtube premium fits into that
Google's mission is to organize information and make it accessible to all
You"
Glados - "Ask clarifying questions
1/ Are there any business changes to be aware of?
2/ Youtube Premium already exists so I am guessing we are not revisiting changing the prices just restarting the process from scratch
3/ Pricing for a specific market? North America, Asia, somewhere else?
To tackle this I would break down the problem into a few steps,
What is Google's mission and how Youtube premium fits into that
Google's mission is to organize information and make it accessible to all
You"See full answer