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Answers of the Week

#1. Design a kiosk for people in rural areas to find manual jobs easily.

CQ:

1. Define Kiosk - physical device with monitors in place to assist people in finding relevant opportunities
2. What's my role - PM in a tech company
3. What does the company do - assume its a leading tech company
4. Geography - consider India for now
5. Timelines & Constraints - 3 months, NA

User Persona for this Kiosk use case:

1. ProfessionBlue collar workers -> high frequency in Indian context and thus possibility of impactJob providers (Agents) ... Read More

#2. How many iPads are sold in the USA every year?

Clarifying questions:

• We are talking about the first hand purchase à right

Top down approach:

• Total population of USA = 300 mn
• Let’s take the life-expectancy at 80, distributed uniformly

User segment – purchase iPad:

• Personal usageEntertainmentSchool/college student
• Official purpose

iPad is a tab category and considering USA is a developed country ... Read More

#3. Build a product to buy and sell antiques.

Scope:?

1. Antiques: Does it mean vintage looking show pieces? - No, it means pieces of art, furniture that is of a high value because of it’s age(over 100 years old)? [Definition taken from google]
2. So we want to create a marketplace for objects that are at least 100 years old. Objects could be anything valuable like a piece of furniture, or art, or something similar. - Yes
3. Do we have any specific geography in mind? - India
4. Do we want the product to be a mobile app or web app?? - mobile app
5. Android/iOS? - Both?
6. Part of an existing app like?Amazon Antique?or a new product? - New product.

Goal:

Create a marketplace for buyers and sellers of objects (anything valuable like a piece of furniture, or art) that are … Read More

Interview Questions of the Week

#1. Suggest a feature for Amazon that would improve user experience?

Asked by Amazon 3 days ago

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

Asked by Flipkart 4 days ago

#3. Design a bicycle renting app.

Asked by Uber 6 days ago

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