Interview Questions

Anjaly J. - "Wing is a subsidiary of Alphabet that provides technology for drone delivery of freight. Current pain points : Noise level when drones are flying Competitive landscape in terms of traffic management system Broadcast network IDs to identify the recipient - privacy concern Considering that privacy concern is a large issue by itself and traffic management system is something I assume Wing would have plans for the future, Idea would be work on the noise level as a recently joined PM. "See full answer

Irma M. - "In this question, we don't want to jump the gun and say "yes, there should definitely be 2 different apps". Maybe there should be instead of jumping to building two apps, we must first ask a few questions and diagnose the problem, use case, and smallest amount of work we can do to get a return on data. I'd first look at the long term mission or value of Robinhood. Is it to make investing more accessible to novice investors or to focus on building up portfolios of veteran investors and recognize"See full answer

Mitchell K. - "What has been the most complex System Design question you were asked?"See full answer

Rahul J. - "YouTube is a platform that lets users upload self generated content that's available for all other users to view, globally. It has a freemium model where unpaid users can watch unlimited content. However, the paid users get additional features that enhance the viewing experience. YouTube would like to move the unpaid users to a paid subscription model as it ensures higher ARPU for YT and gives users incentive to repeated come back to the platform to watch content. **Ways to increase conversion"See full answer

Frank A. - "1) create the experimental and control groups. 2) Then calculate the proportion (mean) of the true conversion rates for both groups using the convert column which counts True as 1 and False as 0. This is their conversion rates 3) calculate the statistic of the two groups by subtracting the proportion and standardizing. 4) get the p-value and compare with 0.05. 5) conclude the difference is statistically significant if the p-value is less than 0.05 otherwise no statistical difference"See full answer

Danyal R. - "Clarify the Issue: Begin by asking for more context about the specific issue they're referring to. This demonstrates your ability to gather information and make sure you have a clear understanding of the problem at hand. Assumption: biggest issue is decrease in north start metric: # of bookings Prioritize and Define Goals: Once you have a clear understanding of the issue, outline the goals you'd like to achieve in solving it. Increasing booking conversions, reducing friction in the bo"See full answer

M N. - "Assuming alternative for commuters currently is public transport. Commuter painpoints: Public transport timings are not reliable Paying fare, buying tickets, refilling fare cards can be cumbersome. Safety Current rideshare options are expensive Getting to public transport stations is inconvenient. Potential solutions: Improve public transit ETA accuracy on Lyft app using historical data and better data integration with transit companies. Integrate with multiple public tra"See full answer

Musonda C. - "Imagine you have a friend from France that speaks French, and you only speak English. You and your friend want to play a talking game. So, for your friend to understand you and for you to understand what your friend is saying you would need an API between the two of you. The api has its own language called api language. You and your friend will both get a small book that tells you how to speak api language. The api in between you and your friend would allow both of you to speak API language to"See full answer

M N. - "Ideas: Book a ride ahead of time on an app and provide timeslots. Have longer hours just for these rides so that people who care enough can go earlier. Distribute the demand by splitting a one-day ticket into 2 days so that traffic is distributed into 2 days. Fast pass add-on that lets you buy a fast pass for a specific ride instead of a combination. Have 2 of the top 3 popular rides and remove unpopular rides to use the space. Create a VR version of popular ride at the park so"See full answer

Nick L. - "when we are discussing about some issues, subjects or problem . we should consider all of the possibility cases which envolved inside the scenario.all of persons has own atitudes . challenging has a this benefite to see the problems and solves on other ways."See full answer

Vaibhav C. - "To determine if a graph is not a tree, you can check for the following conditions: Presence of cycles: A graph is not a tree if it contains cycles. In a tree, there should be exactly one unique path between any two vertices. If you can find a cycle in the graph, it cannot be a tree. Insufficient number of edges: A tree with N vertices will have exactly N-1 edges. If the graph has fewer or more than N-1 edges, then it is not a tree. Disconnected components: A tree is a connected graph, m"See full answer

Tiago R. - "function knapsack(weights, values, cap) { const indicesByValue = Object.keys(weights).map(weight => parseInt(weight)); indicesByValue.sort((a, b) => values[b]-values[a]); const steps = new Map(); function knapsackStep(cap, sack) { if (steps.has(sack)) { return steps.get(sack); } let maxOutput = 0; for (let index of indicesByValue) { if (!sack.has(index) && weights[index] <= cap) { maxOutput ="See full answer

Amparo L. - "Hard worker, positive attitude and arrives ready to work with no emotional issues."See full answer

Madhumita M. - "Attempted the answer. Feedback appreciated. Thanks! Mission: LinkedIn mission statement is to “connect the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful.” LinkedIn Feed: People You Know, Talking About Things You Care About. One of things can be done is look for Existing engagement metrics that LinkedIn news feed may have. Look for data where engagement is low and understand why and come up with a hypothesis for that. For this exercise will assume there is no pro"See full answer

Abhilash K. - "Minimum viable product is a product with a minimum set of features that are sufficient to gather information if customers are going to use it or are sufficient to answer the questions for the problems that are we are specifically trying to solve. In order to prioritize features it is critical to consider following points. What is the problem we are trying to solve? Understand the context. Identify the features that you need to solve the problem while ensuring that features are in sync with"See full answer

Roy C. - "Note: This is my answer that I generated loosely while I was practicing this question. I didnt want to go down the product design framework as this is more of an execution question, so I came up with my own zombified framework to focus more on strategy + execution. Open to feedback on my answer - understand its not the most perfect! Question: How would I launch a digital library product as a Google PM Clarifications: Standalone product? : standalone Region specific: No (up to me) Goa"See full answer