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Guesstimate for Google Product Management Interview [Google Product Interview Experience]

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Photo by  Volkan Olmez  on  Unsplash 1. Number of Queries answered by Google per second? Interviewer:  Estimate the number of search query answered by Google per second ? Shailesh:  Okay Before I jump onto the solution, I have some questions which I want to get clarified. When we are estimating the number of search query, are we also taking care about search query for Gmail, Youtube, Google Maps or is it for Google search only? Interviewer:  For now you can focus only on the Google search. Shailesh:  Are we estimating the search query from a particular device like mobile or desktop or total number of search queries? Interviewer:  Across all the devices. Sha i lesh:  Are we focusing on a particular geography or globally ? Interviewer:  Globally. Shailesh:  Alright! let me iterate the goal of the problem. We want to estimate the number of search query per second answered by the Google search across all the devices globally. Interviewer:  Perfect Shailesh:  Okay let me give the overall st

Design Uber for specially-abled people? [Uber PM Interview]

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Photo by  Austin Distel  on  Unsplash Interviewer:   Design Uber for specially-abled people Shailesh:   Thank you for the question. Let me clarify my understanding of Uber. Uber is a platform that facilitates riders and drivers. The rider requests a cab on the platform to a specific destination. The driver picks up the rider and drops him at the location, and charges are paid to the platform. Uber takes a commission out of what the driver charges from the rider. Interviewer:  Yes. Shailesh:   A lright, let me clarify some questions regarding the problem statement. There are different types of disabilities like physically disabled, blind or deaf. Are we focusing on a specific disability? Interviewer:  For this, you can assume that we are building Uber for physically challenged people. Shailesh:  It makes sense since many people are physically disabled, and transportation is a huge problem. So I am assuming the goal of the product is to make transportation convenient for the ones who are

How would you improve LinkedIn? [Microsoft Product Management Interview]

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  Photo by  Souvik Banerjee  on  Unsplash Interviewer:  How would you improve LinkedIn? Shailesh:  Alright, before answering this question, I would like to clarify my understanding of LinkedIn. LinkedIn is a professional social networking website. It has several verticals like networking, Newsfeed, Job search, LinkedIn Learning etc. LinkedIn is operating on the freemium business model. Is this correct, or do you want to add some more things?  Interviewer:  Yes, this is correct. Shail e sh:  Okay, now talking about the improvement of LinkedIn, improvement can be of different types like improvement in the acquisition of new users, engagement of users or it can be related to monetisation. Since LinkedIn is in a growing phase, it would be good to focus on improving the engagement part. What do you think?  Interviewer:  Engagement sounds good; please ease go ahead. Shailesh:  Do we have any resource or time constraints that I should be aware of? I am asking this because this might play a ro

Daily active users of a mobile app by a service provider company has gone down by 7%? How would you go about it?

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Photo by Giorgio Trovato on Unsplash TechnoManagers  is the complete guide for Product Management and PM Mock Interview Preparation. Interviewer: Daily active users of a mobile app by a service provider company have gone down by 7%? How would you go about it? Shailesh: Thanks for the question; before I jump onto the solution, I want to clarify some questions. What kind of service provider company are we talking about? Interviewer: We are a home services provider company; we have an app where users can book their services. Shailesh: Basically, we are a platform company that connects the users to the one who provides services like home cleaning, AC maintenance, grooming services etc. Through our app, the user can search for the services he wants and book the same. Interviewer: Exactly Shailesh: I want to know more about the metrics; what do Daily active users mean? Is it the one who just opens the mobile app and searches for some services, or the one who books the service? Intervi