Interview Questions

Saket S. - "Assumption: This restaurant space already exists in Business campus. Hence assuming that necessary electrical, security and plumbing works are already completed. I will use the following approach Discovery: Understand the number of employees, their demographic profile (age/location/gender), food preferences, rush hours, and preferred mode of payment etc. This information can be gathered through an online survey. Planning: Finalize the staffing, restaurant layout, develop food catalog/"See full answer

Greg W. - "PayPal makes money from: Processing fees from merchants - traditional checkout and buy now, pay later P2P transfers using credit cards Instant money transfers on P2P and to bank accounts Lending products (paypal credit) Cross border fees (Xoom) Crypto trading fees"See full answer

Saket S. - "Clarifying questions: Are we trying to determine impact of changing timeline on Project? Assuming Project scenario. I need to take a 360 degree view and hence I would list down all the stakeholders and work with them to understand impact of changing timeline: Internal Stakeholders Business: Does this change impact the revenue/profitability Engineering: Do we foresee any technological risks due to change in timeline Sales: Does this impact our sales forecast Marketing:"See full answer

IamaPM - "Number of visits to the site had increased, so total reservations infact went up, but conversion was down due to more users visiting, due to a promotion offered by the company or may be due to more ad entry points, social media, friend recommendations etc."See full answer

Tiago R. - "function getCheapestCost(rootNode) { let cost = rootNode.cost; if (rootNode.children.length === 0) { return cost; } let minCost = Infinity; for (let child of rootNode.children) { minCost = Math.min(minCost, getCheapestCost(child)); } return cost + minCost; } `"See full answer

William W. - "Clarifying questions Is there a specific airline we are focusing on here? Assume any US passenger airline (Delta, United, Spirit etc.) Why is this company interested in improving the boarding experience? To increase customer satisfaction Can you define what we mean by 'boarding experience'? The time between the passenger arriving at the gate and sitting down in their assigned seat on the plane. Are there any constraints (resources or otherwise) that I should"See full answer

Anubhav A. - "Lets see, what kind of cost does google have to incur to run google photos. To think about this clearly, I want to think as if I was going to setup Google Photos now and it doesn't exist till today. Cost for Building software and maintaining it Cost for acquiring users Cost for keeping the data of users safe and accessible Miscellaneous Now lets come back to today where Google photos clearly exist and I will think about the costing in each of these sections. Google photos s"See full answer

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

Anonymous Pelican - "Just to preface - I've actually worked in the non-profit space previously, so I have some experience in this problem area. Clarifying questions: Is this within the Facebook app itself/integrations across the FoA’s ? Or is this going to be a standalone product? Assume: Charity function built within Facebook. Clarifying Question: Are we okay to constrain this to the US region? There may be tax implications outside of the US we aren’t strongly familiar with and so easier to focus on U"See full answer

Exponent - "We've identified the problem as a Design a Product question. Use the following framework for tackling these types of questions: Ask Clarifying Questions Identify users, behaviors, and pain points State product goal Identify current solutions Brainstorm new solutions Evaluate solutions Measure success Summarize We'll go through each of these step by step. Ask Clarifying Questions The PM interview isn't about your ability to come up w"See full answer

Mark - "Clarifying questions: What's Lyft current goal and how does this new focus on Deaf drivers align with Lyft's goal & strategy? Do Lyft already have service/product to enable deaf users to drive for lyft? Assume We don't have any existing product/service to allow deaf users to drive for Lyft today We are designing for the ridesharing business and that the Deaf drivers can drive for all types of Lyft rideshare options Lyft's Mission: Improve people's lives w/ the world's best transport"See full answer

Seyed rasoul J. - "I would start with the company vision then assuming we have more than one product team, craft the vision for the product through a collaboration of PMs and Tech leads, then based on that I will define the scope of each product team's milestones to achieve the product vision and go from both ends to fill the gap from what we already have and what needed to achieve the milestones."See full answer

Srijita P. - "Clarification question: How many subscription plans are offered by Tinder ? If there is more than one subscription plan, then we need to ask is the fluctuation happening across all plans or in a particular one ? Assumption: Let's say lower priced subscription plan is showing the most fluctuation and there are only two types of plans In this subscription plan which age group is showing the most fluctuation (18-24,25-30, 30+ etc) ? Is there any seasonality trend observed (eg: placemen"See full answer

Emiliano I. - "Look for the main variables and see if there differences in the distributions of the buckets. Run a linear regression where the dependent variable is a binary variable for each bucket excluding one and the dependent variable is the main kpi you want to measure, if one of those coefficients is significant, you made a mistake. "See full answer