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Answers of the Week

#1. How would you design a Google Ads product tailored for digital billboards?

Clarifying questions:

1. By digital billboards, do we mean an alternative to static billboards with video content? Yes, you are right.

2. Will this be built as a stand-alone product or integrated with existing Google Ads products? - Integrate it with the Google Ads as an up-sell option?

3. Do we have any constraints in terms of time, money, or technology? - No

4. Is it okay if I assume that all regulations have been sorted for kick-starting this billboard business? Yes, you just need to focus on the tech product.

5. What is the goal for this? - Feel free to assume.

Is it okay if I work with monetization as a goal, considering we are looking to upsell from our existing ad products? - Yes.

Mission of the Company and Product

Google's mission is to organise the world's information and make it accessible and useful for everyone … Read More and Give Feedback

#2. Estimate the number of Uber rides.

Clarifying questions

1. The number of rides in Delhi/NCR.
2. The ride count on any normal day
3. Assuming that an Uber ride means the successful completion of a trip.
4. Ride type will include all cab types, auto and bike.
5. Uber Ride will pertain only to transport verticle of the company and not delivery.
6. Uber rides booked from all platforms (Android, Ios and website)?

Approach

1. Total population of Delhi/NCR - 70 Million
2. Internet penetration - 65% (approx 45 Million)
3. Uber users - 30% of the total population (approx 10?Million)
4. Break down the population based on user types - Working professionals (40%, 4?Million), Students (20%, 2?Million), Stay at home (30%, 3?Million) … Read More and Give Feedback

#3. What happens when you enter a URL in your browser?

Step 1 - Understand and scope the question

To be sure, the question is what happens when I type for example,?www.xyz.com .

Interviewer - Yes

I will take this example of?www.xyz.com ?and explain how the request is sent and the response is returned, if that is ok

Interviewer - sounds good.

Step 2 - Explain the answer

The information that we want is retrieved from multiple servers. So, when we hit?www.xyz.com ?in the browser window, the first step will be to identify the IP address of the server which contains the information. This is like the telephone directory which contained the names along with the respective phone numbers.?

If this is a site that is frequently visited, the details will be cached in your browser, so it will first look up the browser DNS cache to check if it can find the details … Read More and Give Feedback

Interview Questions of the Week

#1. Create a subscription plan for Google Maps.

Asked by Google in Product Strategy 3 days ago

#2. You are a PM at Spotify Podcast. What would be your success metrics?

Asked by Spotify in Metrics 4 days ago

#3. You are a PM at Subway. Design a product to help store managers run stores efficiently.

Asked in Product Design 5 days ago

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