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Answers of the Week

#1. You’re a PM at Meta, launching a new feature for audio-only posts for stories. What metrics would you measure?

Here's one way I would approach this question.

Description A new feature that is audio-only stories on Instagram. It has no visuals and it conveys the message through sound only.

Goals:

Engagement

• A new way to increase engagement on Instagram
• More content creation and consumption

Better user insights

• Learn more about user's behavior, their likes and dislikes
• More targeted and personalized ads leading to higher revenue

Research potential for other product offerings

• Audiobooks … Read More and Give Feedback

#2. Estimate the number of bicycles required to start a bike sharing operation in a big city.

1. When you say a bike sharing operation - it means that there is a service designed where users can share a single bike between 2 users.
2. Is there a number of hours at which they can share.
3. Operational hour is 12 hours.
4. 2 users can share a single bike up to 6 hours each.
5. When you say big city let us assume India/Usa.
6. When you say bike

Extract - no of users who will use the bike? … Read More and Give Feedback

#3. Design a vending machine for blind people.

Clarifying questions:

1. are we a big tech based company or a startup? How much resources can we realistically invest into this product.

Experience with vending machines, some limitations of use right off the bat

• I’m definitely don’t use vending machines in my day to day life unless I needed to grab a quick snack - I do notice that vending machines can be hard to Navigate? for the? visually impaired. This is because?
• 1) the items inside can often only be seen and there currently aren’t ways to know what items are inside unless you can visually interact with the machine?
• 2)the placement of each item cant be known without visual interaction … Read More and Give Feedback

Interview Questions of the Week

#1. Build a calendar scheduling tool for Dropbox.

Asked by Dropbox a day ago

#2. Design a post-checkout experience at Ticketmaster.

Asked by DoorDash 3 days ago

#3. You are a PM at Meta, and Mark wants you to create a product to help people learn musical instruments remotely. What would you build?

Asked by Meta (Facebook ) 4 days ago

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