Interview Questions

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

Prashanth A. - "We are asked to calculate Sum(over value) for time in (t - window_size, t) where key in (key criteria). To develop a function to set this up. Let w be the window size. I would have an observer of some kind note the key-value, and for the first w windows just add the value to a temporary variable in memory if the key meets the key criteria. Then it would delete the oldest value and add the new value if the new key meets the criteria. At each step after "w", we would take the sum / w and store"See full answer

Sayee M. - "depending on project phase, apply various methodologies. scrum for app dev, waterfall for data migration, Testing (TDD for dev, FUT FiT for manual, UAT) , OCM has it own methodology ."See full answer

James W. - "I'd do an audit of what we understand, the gaps and the risks. What information do we have and how confident do we feel? What assumptions do we have? What do we not know? What is the risk of making certain assumptions? With this information, and a pulse of your team you can get an understanding of the risk level for moving forward. If the risk is high, you need to go back to leadership with the evidence and ask for more time. **What's the risk if we don't launch on"See full answer

Anubhav A. - "Clarifying questions: Are we taking about a personal parking lot or a public parking lot Do we have an objective in head for this lot -> Make money? Public parking lot from govt body Do we have a particular location in head for this -> basement, outside some building or on the roof Are we particular about the number of vehicles it can take up? Are we particular about the kind of vehicles that it can take up? (2 wheelers, 4 wheelers, heavy weight 4 wheelers) Taking a few assumptions:"See full answer

Alvin P. - "WITH previous AS(SELECT viewer_id, watch_hours, LAG(watchhours) OVER(PARTITION BY viewerid ORDER BY year, month) AS previous_hours, year, month FROM watch_time GROUP BY viewer_id, year, month ), streaks AS(SELECT viewer_id, SUM(CASE WHEN previoushours IS NOT NULL AND previoushours = 3 `"See full answer

Grishma W. - "The three most important goals as a PM for Insta stories: Usage, Visibility & Reach"See full answer

Exponent - "This is a classic Strategy Question, which asks you to justify high-level business decisions and strategy. With many acquisition strategy questions, we can first look at core competencies and synergies before offering more complex reasoning. > I remember that - it made huge headlines around late 2019. I definitely think there are a few solid reasons why your team may have made this acquisition, for example:Incentivize retailers to use PayPal > Leverage PayPal tech resources to grow Honey > O"See full answer

Steven S. - "too many questions for clarification on this to start"See full answer

Vipul A. - "I would like to clarify the scope of this question - It is only limited to Uber rides and not Uber eats. correct? For us to gauge whether Uber should accept cash or not, lets first understand why would Uber want to do this, a few reasons which come to mind: Uber wants to acquire more customers (non-digital payment users) Uber wants to provide alternative options to existing users and make it easier for them to book with Uber Strategic reason - competition has started accepting cash or i"See full answer

Abdurhman M. - "program management is a role similar to project management but often encompasses more that just managing projects."See full answer

Manisha J. - "The moment we realise that it's become somewhat unachievable or it's leading on a negative outcome and direction, following the below steps we took. P.S ( I worked for Amazon for 3 years on PMO) These below will be my Initial plan Quick sync up on hurdles and current project and why it seems this way discussion with my team gathering all the data points (pain points) to note down and break them into smaller parts for further resolution Review and retrospect the ongoing project, why it"See full answer

Vibhor R. - "As a product manager, my focus is to bring the what and why of the product and deliver the product in the promised timeline. With that said, I typically work closely with my engineering and onboard them during the planning sessions to have a say on the design and feasibility. I try to keep an idea where PMs are not the only responsible folks for ideation and engineering is free to pitch in their two cents. In addition, I typically try to do daily/weekly standup check-ins with my Developers and D"See full answer

Adegnika O. - "It was a Finetech product to help people remove credit card limited balance issue. The product is design especially for business man who usually use they credit card to make purchase or big transaction. Problem Credit card have a limit amont of money they can support. it is very difficult to handle situation where people want to make a transaction that goes beyond their supported credit card balance. Having many credit card is not easy to manage and go to trip with a huge amont of money i"See full answer

Ashley M. - "sliding window"See full answer

Mahesh M. - "Clarification questions Events product - Is that events tools in FB where people can create events and invite people to participate OR a section in FB for specific local/country events so that people can go in and view what others are talking about a specific event and what's going on in local neighborhood. ie think of a section in FB for halloween. People can visit events page for halloween and see where local parties are happening, promotions etc. FB Algorithm will auto curate event spec"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