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Asked at Capital One • 2 years ago
How would you improve the DMV?
Product Manager
Product Design
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"Clarification/Problem What is the timeline that we're working with? (You Choose) What is the criteria for how you'd define an improvement or success? (You Choose) Is there a specific area of the DMV experience that you want me to improve? (No) Are we thinking about this from the perspective of the DMV? (Yes) What is the market that we should be thinking about or focusing on? (US) Business Objective The DMV has a couple of key goals: To help uniquely identify which vehi"
Deric C. - "Clarification/Problem What is the timeline that we're working with? (You Choose) What is the criteria for how you'd define an improvement or success? (You Choose) Is there a specific area of the DMV experience that you want me to improve? (No) Are we thinking about this from the perspective of the DMV? (Yes) What is the market that we should be thinking about or focusing on? (US) Business Objective The DMV has a couple of key goals: To help uniquely identify which vehi"See full answer
Product Manager
Product Design
Asked at Capital One • 2 years ago
Reinvent a backpack with 10 new features.
Product Manager
Product Design
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Product Manager
Product Design
Asked at Capital One • 2 years ago
Reinvent a trashcan with 10 new features.
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Product Design
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Product Manager
Product Design
Asked at Capital One • 2 years ago
Reinvent a pillow with 10 new features.
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Product Design
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Product Design
Asked at Capital One • 2 years ago
Should Capital One continue to invest in developing markets?
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Product Strategy
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Product Strategy

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Asked at DoorDash • 2 years ago
You're a leader at DoorDash. What should DoorDash build next?
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Product Strategy
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Product Manager
Product Strategy
Asked at DoorDash, Microsoft • 2 years ago
Tell me about a time when you succeeded as a product manager.
Product Manager
Behavioral
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Product Manager
Behavioral
Asked at Amazon, DoorDash, LinkedIn + 1 more • a month ago
Tell me about your product management experience.
Product Manager
Behavioral
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Product Manager
Behavioral
Asked at DoorDash • 2 years ago
As a leader at Spotify, how would you triple its revenue in the next three years?
Product Manager
Product Strategy
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Product Manager
Product Strategy
Asked at DoorDash • 2 years ago
How would you improve OpenTable?
Product Manager
Product Design
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Product Manager
Product Design
Asked at DoorDash • 2 years ago
As a leader at Target, how would you increase revenue?
Product Manager
Product Strategy
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"Clarification Question: What kind of revenue is Target trying to increase? ( Gross Revenue, Net Revenue .. etc ) Answer: Let's stick to Gross revenue. As I understand, the target has two revenue streams - In-store and online purchases. Are there any other revenue streams I should consider? Answer: No Why Now ?. Answer: we have seen our revenue being impacted due to competition from Amazon and Walmart, and our revenue is flat. Which revenue stream do you see a decline, increase, or flat?"
Navin T. - "Clarification Question: What kind of revenue is Target trying to increase? ( Gross Revenue, Net Revenue .. etc ) Answer: Let's stick to Gross revenue. As I understand, the target has two revenue streams - In-store and online purchases. Are there any other revenue streams I should consider? Answer: No Why Now ?. Answer: we have seen our revenue being impacted due to competition from Amazon and Walmart, and our revenue is flat. Which revenue stream do you see a decline, increase, or flat?"See full answer
Product Manager
Product Strategy
Asked at DoorDash, Nvidia • 5 months ago
How do you set priorities with limited resources?
Product Manager
Behavioral
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"Thorough analysis of the asks- what is the strategic fit, overall business value, goals? Analysis of resources - skillset/ time/ dependencies. Create a list of all the things that we have to do, rank them by value(impact), urgency and effort needed. Stakehodler inputs. Moscow priroitization/ value vs effort frameworks. Have clear communication channels with our stakehodlers to socialzie progress/ effort Sequence the asks - subject to changing circumstances. Call ou"
Anonymous Boa - "Thorough analysis of the asks- what is the strategic fit, overall business value, goals? Analysis of resources - skillset/ time/ dependencies. Create a list of all the things that we have to do, rank them by value(impact), urgency and effort needed. Stakehodler inputs. Moscow priroitization/ value vs effort frameworks. Have clear communication channels with our stakehodlers to socialzie progress/ effort Sequence the asks - subject to changing circumstances. Call ou"See full answer
Product Manager
Behavioral
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Asked at DoorDash • a month ago
Why do you want to work at DoorDash?
Product Manager
Behavioral
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"The reason I want to work at Doordash is because I’m a really hard worker, I never give up and I’m good at delivering stuff to my teachers at school whenever they have something to drop off to them, I look at the paper and then I read the directions given to me on the ipad to drop it off."
Amparo L. - "The reason I want to work at Doordash is because I’m a really hard worker, I never give up and I’m good at delivering stuff to my teachers at school whenever they have something to drop off to them, I look at the paper and then I read the directions given to me on the ipad to drop it off."See full answer
Product Manager
Behavioral
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Design a queuing system for a call center with N representatives to handle more than N requests, where each request takes between 2 and 4 seconds to complete.
Engineering Manager
Technical
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"Blocking Queue's with multiple threads enqueuing and dequeuing calls. Follow-ups included refactoring to add a finite list of priorities for some types of calls"
Faraz A. - "Blocking Queue's with multiple threads enqueuing and dequeuing calls. Follow-ups included refactoring to add a finite list of priorities for some types of calls"See full answer
Engineering Manager
Technical
Describe what happens when you visit https://google.com in your web browser.
Engineering Manager
System Design
3 answers
"s3 blob storage? It's Google not Amazon."
Claudia S. - "s3 blob storage? It's Google not Amazon."See full answer
Engineering Manager
System Design
Asked at Google • 2 years ago
You're a leader at Google and they've built a bridge from Africa to the United States. What should Google do next?
Product Manager
Product Strategy
4 answers
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"CQ: Goal - connect two large continents, reduce the distance Is it a motorable bridge -? Any specific use case on mind? Summarise: come up with the use cases of the bridge Google’s mission -> organise world’s information and make them more accessible and useful A bridge that way is a great way to reduce the distance between two large separate continents. This bridge can help spread information faster Possible Use cases of the bridge: Transportation of physical goods: Since road tran"
Anonymous Newt - "CQ: Goal - connect two large continents, reduce the distance Is it a motorable bridge -? Any specific use case on mind? Summarise: come up with the use cases of the bridge Google’s mission -> organise world’s information and make them more accessible and useful A bridge that way is a great way to reduce the distance between two large separate continents. This bridge can help spread information faster Possible Use cases of the bridge: Transportation of physical goods: Since road tran"See full answer
Product Manager
Product Strategy
Asked at Meta • 2 years ago
You are a Meta PM. Your team is tasked with ensuring no bad ads are displayed on any Meta application. What goals would you set? How would you measure success?
Product Manager
Analytical
6 answers
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"FB Vision Why is this problem important - bad ads can drive customer churn and pose reputational risks in terms of law suits. What is a bad ad defined as - we will exclude ad relevance. any ad that is inappropriate, harmful, and misleading. What is the user journey >> Businesses creates ads, ads are verified by FB team who will remove any bad ads, ads get published after verification, user sees the ads, reports if they dont like it, and the team verifies it again and if bad, removes it. N"
Neha A. - "FB Vision Why is this problem important - bad ads can drive customer churn and pose reputational risks in terms of law suits. What is a bad ad defined as - we will exclude ad relevance. any ad that is inappropriate, harmful, and misleading. What is the user journey >> Businesses creates ads, ads are verified by FB team who will remove any bad ads, ads get published after verification, user sees the ads, reports if they dont like it, and the team verifies it again and if bad, removes it. N"See full answer
Product Manager
Analytical
Asked at DocuSign • 2 years ago
Design a rate limiter for a microservices API.
Software Engineer
System Design
1 answer
"The real discussion was very much similar o what exposed at https://www.tryexponent.com/courses/software-engineering/system-design/design-rate-limiter, but - as I commented the video - the real interviewer wasn't so naive to do not forgive the client identification only because IP. I had to introduce glimpses of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowyourcustomer practice, I quoted JWT. I proposed a logical map of id addressing a "deque" of time-stamps of requests, with a threshold for the deque an"
Luca D. - "The real discussion was very much similar o what exposed at https://www.tryexponent.com/courses/software-engineering/system-design/design-rate-limiter, but - as I commented the video - the real interviewer wasn't so naive to do not forgive the client identification only because IP. I had to introduce glimpses of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowyourcustomer practice, I quoted JWT. I proposed a logical map of id addressing a "deque" of time-stamps of requests, with a threshold for the deque an"See full answer
Software Engineer
System Design
Users are creating more Instagram Stories, but engagement is down. What metrics would you track to improve this?
Product Manager
Product Strategy
1 answer
"I think first we need to understand the questions better. Who these users are? (Any specific demographic, age users) What kind of stories are they sharing? How much is considered fewer? Once we get the answer or if we do not get answer we will have to make assumptions about all three questions. Based on the assumption we will have to define a vision. The vision should state what we want to achieve. Goal: Users between age 20 to 30 should get at least 100 shares, likes and comments com"
Madhuri J. - "I think first we need to understand the questions better. Who these users are? (Any specific demographic, age users) What kind of stories are they sharing? How much is considered fewer? Once we get the answer or if we do not get answer we will have to make assumptions about all three questions. Based on the assumption we will have to define a vision. The vision should state what we want to achieve. Goal: Users between age 20 to 30 should get at least 100 shares, likes and comments com"See full answer
Product Manager
Product Strategy
Asked at TikTok • 2 years ago
How can TikTok double its revenue next year? What percentage of the new revenue should be derived from existing advertisers versus new advertisers?
BizOps & Strategy
Product Strategy
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BizOps & Strategy
Product Strategy