Interview Questions

Anjan M. - "Product - Google Glass Undefined Core Segment & Jobs-to-Be-Done - Google pitched Glass to “everyone” but never clarified a must-have use case for any one group. Improper Category Context - It was positioned as a lifestyle product, but could not justify a use case that a mobile device could not already do. Premium Pricing of a Prototype- Explorer Edition cost 1500 usd. This gap alienated hobbyists and discouraged volume sales. Privacy Backlash- The Always-on camera r"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

Varun S. - "Question: You'e a PM at Meta. Design a product for users to find a handyman. Clarifying questions: Why does Meta want to build this? A: Up to you to decide that, hoping to here you say why. When: No fixed duration for release. Market: I'd like to focus on a developed market, where technology reach is wider and people are more at ease with using online platforms for tasks. Maybe focus on the US market to start with. Standalone app - We will need to distinguish ourselves and create an identity"See full answer

Vidur K. - "Clarifying Questions First, let me try to clarify what kind of self-driving car are we talking about here. Let' say, we have the following top-level assumptions: Fully autonomous Family Sedan Car US Market This technology is only available with Google In a real face-to-face interview would pause to ask the interviewer to correct assumptions or ask for other features. Consumer Family - uses the autonomous ability of the car to spend time with kids while dropping them off to"See full answer

Bg - "Questions: Can the toothbrush be a smart toothbrush, different from typical toothbrushes? Ans: Yes Children's age group? Ans: Pick your choice Cost? Ans: Not a concern Country? Ans: Ignore Personas: Parents typically help kids in brushing up to 5 years. Let us assume 5-10year olds as our focus. That is a decent 5%+ of global population. Pain Points: Brushing teeth for kids is a pain. They simply do not like it sometimes. Dental checkup is always a hassle. Some ki"See full answer

Dileep D. - "Phishing Attack Scenario (High-Level) Attack Type: Phishing Goal: Steal user credentials Attack Vector: Fake email pretending to be a bank Target: End users Impact: Account takeover, financial loss Detection: Email filtering, user reports Prevention: User awareness training Multi-factor authentication Email security gateways"See full answer

Ananya M. - "US population = 330M , 80M across 4 generations population that is physically able to travel, can afford travel, travels for business ranges between 20-60 year olds = 160M calculating maximum demand: long weekends in summer are peak travel times, lets assume 60% of population who are able and can afford travel, do so during long weekend = 0.6x160M lets say 60% of this population choses prefers domestic travel while 40% go international (consider Mexico, Canada, London are international"See full answer

Ban N. - "Follow news and resources via conferences or top companies' blogs, such as NeurIPS 2023 or Google Research Blog to get updates about the machine learning landscape. Research the papers on the new technology or approach that was mentioned or introduced via the subscribed sources, such as listed above. Following media channels, podcasts, or influencers on social media who were recently active in the industry to catch up with the trending and valuable insights, research, thoughts... Scan Github"See full answer

Amparo L. - "The most impressive thing that I’ve done was I got to do a fowards flip on the gym mat and I’ve gotten way flexible "See full answer

Jim T. - "In the end I said number of bookings, but explained how I would get there. I talked about the company's mission first (which I didn't know but guessed it was something about making it easier or more accessible for people to travel) and then talked about a few potential metrics that could fit (bookings, NPS, etc). But in the end I explained that number of bookings is not only tied to their core value proposition, but it also reflected a happy customer base on both sides of the transaction (renter"See full answer

Simran M. - "Clarifications: Netflix is a streaming service and homepage serves the first entry point after a user has been logged in to their respective profile. Homepage helps users find a relevant content for them to watch, among other features like "Continue watching" or games. Mission: Netflix's mission is to entertain the world. Goal: As a PM of homepage, the goal of the feature is to let the users find relevant content of their interest. This feature ties to the mission in a way that lets the user"See full answer

Jaime A. - "I would avoid converting order_date WITH monthly_totals AS ( SELECT department_id, SUM(CASE WHEN DATETRUNC('month', orderdate) = '2022-11-01' THEN orderamount ELSE 0 END) AS novtotal, SUM(CASE WHEN DATETRUNC('month', orderdate) = '2022-12-01' THEN orderamount ELSE 0 END) AS dectotal FROM orders WHERE order_date BETWEEN '2022-11-01' AND '2022-12-31' GROUP BY department_id ), mom_increases AS ( SELECT "See full answer

Chelsea F. - "Questions: Clarify: High school = grades 9-12? So roughly ages 15-18 (4 years)? Are we talking about all high-school aged kids, or kids who actually attend HS? Do we count home schoolers? Drop outs? Assumptions: Let's assume we're estimating the number of children in the U.S. who are enrolled in/attend HS Assuming a uniform distribution of the population across ages Approach: U.S. Population = 300m Average lifespan = 80 years 4 years represented by HS age = 5% of the populati"See full answer

Vinicius F. - "We need to take into consideration that projects are guided by 3 variables which are cost, requirements and time, the triangle of a project. In this situation, the resources are almost running out, so we need to take this situation to the stakeholders to talk about the requirements, I think it's just the variable that can save the project, because if we touch on the time aspect we also don't have much to do, because to deliver into the same timebox we need to add more people which means allocat"See full answer

Anand K. - "Clarify: First, is there a budget or timeline I should be aware of? This will allow me to understand if we should build an MVP version of X product, or if we have the freedom to make it a bit more layered/complex. No budget/timeline Next, I want to define child care: we can be talking about after-school day care many private and public schools provide. We can also be talking about child care businesses that will look after children during business hours. There are some education"See full answer