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Answers of the Week

#1. What are your solutions to reduce the car cancellation rate on the Uber waiting page?

Uber is a market place, let’s try to understand the cancellations from both riders and drivers perspectives and then find an optimal solution.?

In general, cancellation is a poor experience from both riders and drivers. Let’s First understand the cancellation metric -

1. # of cabs booked successfully but cancelled after that by either drivers or riders.

Assumptions -?

1. Scope -?Only tier I and tier II cities
2. Time period -?Daily

Probable Cancellation Reasons -?Recently, cab cancellations have increased significantly, and this is happening due to multiple reasons. Let’s list down a few of them -

1. Due to more demand for cabs during a certain time period of a day, less number of cabs are available.
2. Higher wait time for the ride
3. Pick-up location is at a longer distance from the current location of the driver?
4. Higher price for the ride, user might compare the price at competitor’s platform causing cancelling the cab
5. Lower price for the ride, driver might not accept due to lower total earning … Read More and Give Feedback

#2. How would you set a goal for Life Events on Facebook?

About product:?

Facebook is a popular social media app where people can stay connected with their friends, family and acquaintances by sharing and viewing updates (inform of photos, videos), sending messages etc. Facebook's mission is to bring the world closer through their network and community building effect.

About the feature i.e Life events:?

Life events is a feature in facebook that helps users to share and celebrate?their important days like birthdays, anniversaries, and job promotions etc.?

How to set a goal?

Goals essentially help us understand what are we trying to acheive and further act as a guiding light for the metrics we want to track.

So, to understand what are we trying to acheive here, let us understand what problem is it solving for the user, Why is it important for facebook in terms of product usage and finally the Business impact.

User:?

It's a core user behavior that they want to share the highlights and deatils about the important days of their life with their friends and family. But it gets a little tough when they have to do it one on one or to keep track of who they want to share it with. So through life events features, the users can simply post their update and share it with their friends on facebook and interact with people reacting/commenting on the post … Read More and Give Feedback

#3. How would you measure the success of Gmail?

About Gmail

Its a google product where user can send and receive emails. The typical things user can do:

• Send/Receive emails
• Can start chatting with email contact
• It can be for business or personal users

Clarify questions

Scope

• Are we considering personal users or business ?
• Are we considering web or mobile app ?
• Are we considering chat as a part of success of gmail or just email?

Goal

As Google has penetrated really well in market, its more about engaging users with different products and gmail is also having this goal. … Read More and Give Feedback

Interview Questions of the Week

#1. Tell me about a time when you launched or brought a product to market. What challenges did you face?

Asked by Meta (Facebook) in Behavioral 2 days ago

#2. Should Amazon pay be kept as a standalone app separate from Amazon shopping app? If yes, why? If no, why?

Asked by Razorpay in Product Strategy 4 days ago

#3. Design a video streaming application tailored for seniors.

Asked by Google in Product Design?6 days ago

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