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What metrics will you use to measure the success of YouTube Search? [Google PM Question]

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Interviewer: How would you measure the success of YouTube search? Shailesh: So let’s first understand YouTube search and its functionality so that we are on the same page. Basically, YouTube Search is an inbuilt search engine inside YouTube right? And it helps the user to find videos and channels related to their intent. We can do text-based search, we can do voice-based search etc. YouTube Search can understand our intent and based on that, it gives the most relevant and personalised results to us. This is what a YouTube Search does. Interviewer: This is well-defined. Book PM / Consulting Mock Interview Resume Review My IIM Bangalore and IIT Kanpur Resume Subscribe to our YouTube channel Shailesh: I will also briefly touch upon the goal of YouTube Search for different stakeholders and for overall YouTube, why it is important because it will help us to pinpoint the responsibilities of YouTube Search for the different stakeholders involved. For Users: The goal of YouTube search is t...

Number of Emails sent via Gmail has reduced by 7%. How would you solve it? - PM Interview Question

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Interviewer:  The question is Number of Emails sent via Gmail has reduced by 7%, How would you solve it? Shailesh:  This sounds interesting. I will start with the clarifying questions so that we have a better understanding of the problem statement. Interviewer:  Yes, please go ahead. Shailesh:   The first thing I would like to ask is about the metric, when we say that the number of Emails sent out via Gmail has reduced by 7% then is it a daily or monthly number of Emails? Also, is there any seasonality involved? Interviewer:  We are measuring the Average Number of emails sent per day. And there is no seasonality involved in this. Shailesh:   The second question which I would like to ask is about the type of email we have seen this issue. There are different types of Emails like Primary Emails, Social Emails or Promotional Emails. Interviewer:  We are seeing this issue in Promotional Emails. Gmail has bifurcated the emails into Primary, Social and Promotional. So, Promotional ...