Interview Questions

Rachita D. - "Start by explaining your understanding of Google Maps. It is a free web/mobile-based feature that allows users to navigate from Point A to B, trip planning locate restaurants, hair salons, other points of interest around a point on the map Businesses use to sponsor advertisements based on Map search string. Clarify what does improvement means, "Improve" is a loaded term - what do we mean by improvement: increased ad revenue, improve the quality of the results, increase downloads, imp"See full answer

Astro S. - "Please provide a transcript. One grasps 150 words in a video, but can grasp 250 words when reading text."See full answer

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

P K. - "Clarifying Questions: Assuming this will be part of FB product. Assuming this is for the US and no major constraints in terms of finances or resources. Goal: To improve user engagement Travel Personas: Solo personal Traveler Group personal Travelers Business travelers Tour operators Transportation Companies (airlines, roadways, trains etc). Choosing to focus on group travelers because most personal travelers usually travel in groups and the volume of this user base"See full answer

Kari J. - "I got this question in my Mini-Case today. I was a little confused because even though I asked a few clarifying questions -- it didn't clarify much! :-) My response was to what was shown on screen -- a mock of the current process (five modal windows) and a mock of a new single modal. THe ask for this was what do you like and dislike in the mock for the new. I will admit that it would have been easy to say what was wrong with the current process - but since the ask was for the new mock, and"See full answer

Aabid S. - "I am the Lead PM for a product that analyzes calls made by prison inmates and looks for predictors of criminal intent. its primarily used by police investigators and the FBI. One of the main features we have in the app is Link Analysis which basically lists out all the calls an inmate has made for a specific time period. This feature was built before my time. When I joined, the first thing I did was to implement analytics in the app. Looking at our numbers, I noticed that usage was less than 1%"See full answer

R S. - "My main task was to improve our recommendation system. I worked closely with the business and data teams to understand how recommendations were made in the past. After discussions, I found out that the system had fixed recommendations and didn't consider customer preferences. Our goal was to identify potential customers better, boost conversion rates with personalized recommendations, and increase cross-selling of products. After analyzing a lot of data, we focused on customers with accounts an"See full answer

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

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

Rick E. - " O(n) - characters in the string O(n) - stack def identify_adjacent(s: str, k: int) -> str: stack = [] n = len(s) for ch in s: if stack: topch, topcnt = stack[-1] if top_ch == ch: top_cnt += 1 stack[-1] = (ch, top_cnt) else: top_cnt = 1 stack.append((ch,1)) if top_cnt == k: stack.pop() else: stack.append"See full answer

Dean Z. - "I will use below 4 pillars to rate and prioritize those 5 projects: Analyze the impact of those 5 projects, to our team and to the whole company maybe Find out if those 5 projects have any dependency between each other Clarify the timeline of each project Identity the status of resources to work on those 5 projects and also the status of their dependencies"See full answer

Karthik T. - "Our application has millions of users and significant load on file upload feature. Situation : In our legacy application we had a particular page which was accepting file uploads and it had the legacy way of selecting file uploads and page would redirect you to the next page or show an error message on failure. Task : I had regular calls with the customer who had reported issue multiple times on this application area. In my calls my I also understood that client was expecting some inno"See full answer

Ankit M. - "Me: I would first like to ask a few clarifying questions : Is this tipping issue confined to specific regions? Is this a new problem, or has it always been present? Does this issue affect all types of rides offered by Lyft? Is there a correlation between driver ratings and the likelihood of being tipped? Interviewer: The problem is widespread across all regions where Lyft operates. It's not new but has been consistent over time. The lower tipping rate is uniform across all ride types, i"See full answer

Tracy M. - "I defaulted to a dictionary-style definition of autonomy, then loosely tied it to users and systems. But I missed the interviewer’s signal that this was really a design/strategy probe. Stopping at a generic level made it sound like I couldn’t translate agency into what matters for product — user trust, trade-offs, risk, and roadmap implications."See full answer

Vivek S. - "Candidate [Clarifying Question 1] - Does success metric needs to be discussed across any particular stage of user life cycle - Growth , Engagement or Monetisation ? Interviewer - Let's focus on overall health metrics of the product. Candidate[Clarifying Question 2] : Does the metrics needs to be presented as an update to CXO in quarterly meetings or monthly meetings or it needs to be presented internally to product / marketing team for detailed analysis ? Interviewer - Let's sa"See full answer

Ram - "Clarification Are we focusing on building the product on a specific Meta platform (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp), or is this a standalone effort? Is the product digital or physical? Are we targeting internal (employees) or external (customers) users? Are there any specific constraints like funding, resourcing, or geography? 1. Narrowing Down the Problem Awareness and Education: Create tools to increase understanding of climate change and its effects. -"See full answer

Kartikeya N. - "Clarifying questions I am assuming the time frame for this question is irrelevant as this is a hypothetical question? : Yes Is IG prioritising the creator side or the viewer side more at the moment? : What do you think? I think it should be a balance for the long term sustenance of the network Are all these reels and views in a particular geography or globally? : Globally What is the duration for which these Views are measured? Assume a day Do we know anything about other engagemen"See full answer

Scott S. - " To clarify on what we are trying to solve for and get the definition of a distributed scheduler straight . So A Distributed Scheduler refers to a system that can handle job scheduling and execution in a scalable and fault-tolerant manner by distributing the workload across multiple servers or nodes. we will make some assumptions with the design , as follows: we will assume 10,000 QPS for job submissions and should be able query for jobs status . Job execution should have minimal latency"See full answer

Jacob S. - "Cloud computing is like going out to a restaurant instead of cooking dinner at home. When you cook at home, you have to do everything yourself. You need to use your own plates, pots, and pans. You have to know how many people are coming over and buy the right amount of ingredients. If more people join for dinner than you expected, you'll run out of food! But if fewer people show up, then you'll have leftovers that go to waste. And on top of it all, you have to do all the cooking, set up, and cl"See full answer