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Singh, Murli
OK, perfect.
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Singh, Murli
Yeah.
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Singh, Murli
Let me.
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Singh, Murli
Cool.
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Singh, Murli
OK, so this is the tech prep session. I think this is the first session of for text so we will be covering what
kinds of positions are in tech and what resources, what kind of interview types that you guys need to go
through, what is the, what are the resources like books and which website you need to go for your
preparation. And so that you can utilize your winter vacations to fully prepare yourself before your
interview cycle starts next year.
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Singh, Murli
I think.
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Singh, Murli
Last year, when I prepared, I utilized winter uh winter period, winter vacation and it was enough time for
me to prepare. So I think this is a perfect time to start and then at the end I have the list of people who
showed interest in tech prep and I have assigned like we all like four of us on from GTA. We have been
assigned as your coaches and I will share that excel with you guys after the meeting so you can reach out
to your respective coach and then set up what kind of interview want.
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Singh, Murli
We're going to practice. You want. You can reach out ahead of time and let us know so we can help you.
OK with that. Let's.
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Singh, Murli
I think this slide we also presented in the kickoff meeting, but just to reiterate, there are different kinds
of position in tech. It's not just product manager. Product manager might be the most famous one, but
this is there are like multiple regions like sort of marketing manager, program manager, strategy and OPS
roles, business development role and internal consultant roles.
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Singh, Murli
So the interview for all these kind of roles generally falls into these three major buckets. One is
behavioral interviews, one is situational based interviews and one is case based interviews, case based
interviews can be divided into. Further we can divide it, but to kick off behavior and situation I will pass it
on to sue and then we will go ahead with the case later.
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Singh, Murli
So over to you.
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Singh, Murli
So there.
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Singh, Murli
Hey, sue.
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Singh, Murli
You there?
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Singh, Murli
Ohh.
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Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
Uh, it looks like she might have dropped. Ohh yeah, but she might be.
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Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
I.
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Singh, Murli
It's OK we can come back to this slide. Then later, let's.
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Singh, Murli
We can come back to this learning.
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Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
Yeah, I it looks like she's joining the call again. Just give it a minute.
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Singh, Murli
Ohk OK, OK.
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Singh, Murli
Yeah, because I can't see the attendees so.
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Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
Yeah, I think so is back.
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Singh, Murli
OK.
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Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
So can you hear us?
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Yoon, Suh
Yeah, sorry about that. My Wi-Fi has been really weird lately. Can you all hear me?
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Singh, Murli
Yeah.
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Yoon, Suh
OK. Wow. Perfect timing.
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Singh, Murli
So we we are on the on your slide so.
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Yoon, Suh
OK, cool. Yeah. So the first one, which I'm sure all the first years on this call already familiar with is the
behavioral and the situation based questions. So I actually think a lot of people underrate the
importance of these. I think they're really important for one tech companies to see if you fit in with the
culture of their company. And two, also like see how you react to different situations. So you all know
starting method.
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Yoon, Suh
I know some companies, especially Microsoft, when they do like your prep sessions with you, don't
emphasize more of the STARTTLS, where basically it's the same thing, but at the end you add a reflection
piece at the end to think about what you could have done better and also a strength and peace at the
end next time. If you could do, how would you apply this to future scenario? So there's different skills are
probably the two typical frameworks that people use when approaching.
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Yoon, Suh
Behavioral interviews.
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Yoon, Suh
But I guess like if you have to boil it down to a few tips, there's a lot down here. I won't read all of them
word for word, but I think the most important thing is for you all to like just one really be true to
yourself. Don't try to be someone you're not. You've heard this before from the CMC, but also make sure
like your tone comes out. I think sometimes people get nervous. I know I do too. And it comes off like I'm
really wooden and rehearsed and I feel awkward. And after I finish it.
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Yoon, Suh
Answer. They're like quiet afterwards and I'm like, oh, my gosh, what's I do wrong? It's so awkward. And
just remember to treat it more like conversation. If you don't hear something at from them right away,
they go silent like engaged and be like, oh, like.
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Yoon, Suh
Like what are your thoughts or like ohh like have something similar happen at just company and like just
try to like make sure that it feels very two way versus one way and if they don't like that they'll let you
know or they'll steer it. So just like try to read the room. The second thing is I'm speaking from my
experience interviewing with Amazon and Microsoft, Amazon especially but they'll really ask you a
bunch of questions like a bunch of stories so it's good to have like.
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Yoon, Suh
A lot prepared, so I know for Microsoft I had seven stories prepared from all different angles, so they
asked me about those kind of question. Then I would answer a certain way if they wanted to hear this
kind of strength, I would tell the same story or not tell the same story for like use that same story but like
just angle it differently. So make sure you're able to do that and.
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Yoon, Suh
Come for Amazon. I probably prepare a 10 because they really want you to know the leadership
principles, know them really well, make sure that you're not forcing the leadership principles into your
story, but that you're really kind of more like hinting at the leadership principle and like showing it rather
than telling it one more thing or a couple more things is if a story, if you can't think of a story right away,
it's OK to take a quick pause, collect your, collect your thoughts, take 5 seconds. It's totally OK.
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Yoon, Suh
I think a mistake is sometimes people like just panic and they launch into a story or something. They lie
and I've done a few behavioral interviews with some people who happened to be recruiting or preparing
for internships. It's pretty obvious when a story is a lie, and you might think you're pulling it off really
well, but usually I feel like if I can tell and I'm not, I feel like I'm really gullible. But if I can tell, probably
the interviewer, Kenneth as well.
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Yoon, Suh
Umm, stop saying we when you mean I and this I think this is something I struggle with. Like when you
tell a story. Just make sure you claim credit. Especially if you had ownership over it. And yeah, I think.
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Yoon, Suh
Those are the main things I know people have different ways that they like to approach it. I like to like jot
down keywords of the question and keywords of my structure. So if it's like a three-part question which
does happen a lot, I'll like write down the three parts and then I'll write down my structures. So I'll write
7 words like I wanna talk about this, this this so then when I'm talking it could glance down and make
sure I'm not rambling, but make sure that there's like a clear structure to it and.
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Yoon, Suh
Yeah, I think practicing is really important. Make sure you're reaching out to all of us and the GTA
leadership members who aren't on this call and like we are more than happy to do lots and lots of
practice rounds with you.
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Singh, Murli
Yeah.
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Yoon, Suh
And so.
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Yoon, Suh
I think that's all I have to say. Any questions like feel free to put in the chat or reach out to me. Ohh also
really quickly funny story when I was interviewing with Microsoft for my final round, the interviewer just
paused and said do you know who the CEO of Microsoft is? And I was like, yeah, that's what you have.
Still it's like you're the first person all day who's gotten that. So I'm just like, that's funny. I was like, I
don't know. I know that's like a silly, silly example, but just being prepared and having some thoughtful
questions as well.
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Yoon, Suh
That's all.
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Yoon, Suh
Let me know if you have any questions.
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Singh, Murli
Perfect. If anyone has any questions put in the chat, we can take that as well. Thank you, sue. That was
really exhaustive list. I personally have struggled with V and I think like I always use VA lot. So it's a
conscious effort. I know I struggle with that sometimes. OK. So moving on to casing interviews, casing
interviews based this is this slide tells you like what are the resources my to favorite books and I think
those are when I talk to other GTA leadership as well and alums.
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Singh, Murli
Tracking these books, these these two books comes up. Uh, the most often. Cracking the PM interview
and decode and conquer.
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Singh, Murli
The difference between both two books, I would say is like cracking the PM interview is basically for
those who have no background prior background in tech. This book is very exhaustive like it they have a
lot of things. So you can start reading that from A-Z like it has everything, but if you have a little bit of
background in tech or and you directly go into practicing your interviews then decode and conquer is
fabulous book for that like it has all these structures and everything. Regardless my favorite book is
decode and conquer.
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Singh, Murli
Like because I have a tech background so I just needed to practice more questions, though I have read
both the books so I still will say decode and conquer is more interview focused and it will give you more
fruits easily and quickly.
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Singh, Murli
Apart from that, I think you guys have already attended Exponent session, so utilize that.
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Singh, Murli
Your exponent and rocketblocks CMC gives us access free access to it. At least we we paid for it. But
yeah, then exponent and rocketblocks stellar pair is another resource which you can realize as well. And
also I have put down this link here igotanoffer.com site. This website is really good if I.
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Singh, Murli
Come out of here. I can just quickly show you guys.
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Singh, Murli
So if you quickly go to the exponent and you go to their marks, you will see here you can select which
kind of interview want and then is it is showing get reminders because that's not the time around. It is
it's gonna start at 9 something send you can hit quickly in the session they will match you up with some
person for interviews. Rocket blocks has something similar here like available session. You can put your
session here. What kind of into your practice you want to practice with this community you can just add
session and then you can.
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Singh, Murli
See here those who I wanted the requested. You can go and book it.
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Singh, Murli
And the last one is I got an offer here. It has all the things like what kind of questions, Amazon asks.
Google asks different kind of things and then system designing questions mock up questions and all
those things. It is mentioned here. So it's also really nice resources like these bottom three once you are
done with the books and let's dive into the case in interview type questions. So there are different kinds
of casing questions. The most frequent question that I have faced is product sense and product design.
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Singh, Murli
That's most common. Then second one is by strategy and execution analytics also comes and analytics
slash metrics comes as well and profit and loss. So I will take up this life here for product sense and
design and then rishab will take strategy and execution and then the lip will take analytics and profit and
loss. So without further ado, let's move into the product sense.
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Singh, Murli
So what product sense questions also can further divided into different kind of questions. So basically if
somebody if the interior ask you can you take one product and critique that product basically what else
what is good, what is bad about that product that is comes under product critique, but that's essentially
inside under product sense. Then also sometimes interview can ask you tell me about your favorite
product and then you then you have to follow this whole framework for your for defining why that
product is a favorite product.
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Singh, Murli
The other kind and I I I would say that's the most asked question is product improvement and product
design. So product improvement is basically they will tell you a one product and say can you improve this
product and then you go through with this whole framework and product design is basically you design A
product from scratch. There will be no product like that in the market and they will ask you that kind of
prompt and then what kind of framework that can help you with this kind of question. There are
multiple framework you can tweak but the one that is most used circles method.
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Singh, Murli
And this matter is.
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Singh, Murli
In depth covered in the decode and conquer book, uh, this framework is a coined by the author of that
book, Lewis and Lin. So what that's circle method means right? What is Segall says so the first thing is
comprehend the situation. Basically understanding the problem statement. You guys might have seen
that in the impact as well like comprehend the problem what it is. So that's what you do here.
Comprehend the situation ask why we are doing this. What's the problem, right. What's the need for
this? What is the goal for this. So you try to comprehend the situation.
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Singh, Murli
Firstly upfront and then you try to identify the customers or user personas. It is recommended that to
come up with multiple customer personas.
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Singh, Murli
Like this product might cater towards and once you have those 2-3 customers then you can identify
which customer segment or personas you would like to target you have. You need to have some kind of
pros and cons for each and then you go and then report on those customers whatever the customers
are. When you will select report on their pain points their needs and then once you do that then you cut
through prioritization. Basically you cannot work with all the pain points or all the needs so you have to
prioritize them.
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Singh, Murli
You can take up one or two pain points. The highest pinpoints or the high priority pain points and then
list solution for those based on those prioritization. Once you list solutions here also, it's recommended
that you list multiple solutions if you can provide a solution that is very cutting edge technology that is
always a positive positive point. You don't have to, but if you bring that up, this is very positive on like for
your interview. Once we have the.
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Singh, Murli
Multiple solutions. Suppose 5 solutions. Then you have to evaluate the trade off. For those solutions. You
cannot build all the features into a product, right? You have to prioritize. So that's what the how you do
that by trade off and trade off basically is like.
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Singh, Murli
It has to be analytical. It has to be metrics driven, not by your gut feeling. So how you do that? I will give
you an example, but here you use the metrics like what is the cost, what would be the effort to
implement that feature, what will be the reach of that solution. So you evaluate that solution by that you
end with summarization. It depends on the interview as well. If you're interviewer is has asked you to
summarize, you can summarize. If not that's fine. But in summarization section sometimes interview ask
you to.
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Singh, Murli
Define the success metrics for your solutions so that is also something to keep in mind. Here is the one
example. I chose, a product improvement and I said this is the most asked question so I just took one
example from one of those two books. The question from the interviewer asked was like how would you
improve Google Chrome browser like and then?
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Singh, Murli
As I said, the framework, let's start applying that right? Let's see. So the first thing the Canada asks is
what is the goal of the Google Chrome browser? So here, candidate directly said that is the goal is to
increase the engagement. So you can say like that as well or you can ask is there any goal or you want
me to define a goal for this kind of product. So here the interview said yes is the goal is to increase the
engagement right then candidate directly dive into what customers this kind of problem they will face.
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Singh, Murli
This kind of problem, right? So they this candidate came up with one persona. It is not like if you come
up with multiple that is ideal. But this candidate came up with one persona that is the developer.
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Singh, Murli
And then this candidate dived little bit deeper and said this specifically in the developer community. This
developer is web developer. There are multiple developers so this is 1 developer Web developer persona
that he wants to target and then this this candidate started listing down the pain points or needs if you
will. So the few things that this candidate set is like basically for web developer is trying to do some kind
of web page indexing. It is hard to do that in the Google Chrome and then.
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Singh, Murli
HTML coding and these are the pain points that I have to go through all the lists, but these are the pain
points that this candidate was trying to define.
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Singh, Murli
Once the candidate did that.
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Singh, Murli
This candidate directly dive into the top right tized pinpoint and he said, like uh, the web page indexing is
the most common problem. So here what is what the candidate is trying to do is cut through the
prioritization. So the reasons this candidate gave to prioritize this pain point is here, like number of
developer reach is maximum for this kind of product. This kind of problem.
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Singh, Murli
And it is more customer centric impact of this will be highest for our customers. So these kind of some
metrics that help this candidate prioritize this pain point over the other ones.
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Singh, Murli
And then this candidate went down. And then then said, what is the solutions that will solve this pain
point? Right. And then this candidate proposed 3 solutions, create a toolbar that shows relevant
debugging information. And then website shows the relevant information. And the third one as well. But
then all three cannot be implemented at the same time. You have to prioritize. You can implement
multiple, but you have to prioritize, right. Because first, we'll go in first thing and 2nd and 3rd. So that's
what this candidate is doing here now evaluating the.
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Singh, Murli
You call it tradeoffs, evaluating the tradeoffs, and then, he said the first one he liked the best and he
would like to go implement this one first. And why? Because the reasons are here, like developer would
like that you know, that kind of solution more and then also effort to implement this one cost to
implement and pros and cons of each option you can say and then you trade off these three options.
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Singh, Murli
And also this candidate ended up with a success metrics and then he asks or she can ask the interviewer
if they want to summarize if they want to sum want they can need to summarize, then summarize all
whole case and then end up with the end with the success metrics. So that's kind of a framework for
product science kind of interviews.
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Singh, Murli
Do you guys have any questions? Let me know or you can post in the chat.
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Singh, Murli
If not, I will pass it on to.
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Singh, Murli
Uh rishab, well product study you can post in the chat if you have any questions rishab over to you.
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Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
OK. Thanks, murli. Yeah. So next, let's let's look at the product strategy question. So I just wanted to start
off with an overview of what this question entails. So very common way that you know you might get
asked a strategy question is during interviews as a follow up to product design questions. So for example,
you know, going by what the question that Murli took as an example, so they might ask you.
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Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
After you design the improvement on the Google Chrome browser, they might ask you how would you
launch it in a particular market, what? What strategy would you use?
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Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
But given that, there's also this misconception that strategy questions are not asked in isolation. But
there's a high likelihood that one of your interviews, especially towards the final rounds, will be entirely
or standalone strategy question in addition to some small you know strategy type of questions you might
get asked in other interviews.
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Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
Talking about the types of strategy questions, you'll be asked, one is a general overarching strategy, so
here it would cover a host of different strategy questions and it tends to be very broad. It is on you to ask
relevant questions to reduce the scope.
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Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
I know most of you might also be doing consulting cases, so this might be very similar to that, and then
you might use a lot of those frameworks here. But in contrast to your consulting cases, there is no set
path for this type of case question.
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Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
And you'll have to use a lot of assumptions, hypothesis, rationale to move forward.
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Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
Talking about the second type of strategy question, it would be a new product launch or a market entry
type. So this is a very specific type of question that you might get asked either right after a designing a
product question or as a standalone question.
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Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
And the third type is a pricing or monetization type of question. This is often less frequently asked, but
it's also very specific and you might get asked after product design or or standalone question.
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Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
So next I wanted to.
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Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
Yeah, just, uh, give you a better idea of what kind of questions you might expect in these different types.
So here I've listed out maybe the top five questions that we have seen get asked by different companies.
So an example of, you know, a general strategy question would be what's the biggest threat to YouTube
or you know, should Microsoft acquire quota?
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Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
UM coming to new product launch or market entry type of questions you might get asked. OK, Google
wants to enter the health tech industry. So as a chief strategist at Google, what would your
recommendation be?
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Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
OK, similar type of questions and finally the pricing of monetization type of questions would be
something along the lines of after designing product X, you know, how would you monetize it or what
would the what, what do you think would be a prior the right price for Apple Home device something
like that?
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Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
Umm. On the next slide. Yeah. I just wanted to list down a few frameworks that might be helpful to you.
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Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
In the general strategy type of questions, you could use a lot of the marketing frameworks that you
might have learned in class. So the 3C framework, the 44P framework or a lot of the you know
frameworks you use in consulting cases. So it could be profitability or cost and revenue synergies,
internal external consideration, pros and cons.
0:22:32.370 --> 0:22:50.960
Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
Coming to new product launch, a market entry type of questions, think about some of the market
characteristics, yeah, competitive environment and also the company fit and I've listed out various
factors that you might use or various criteria that you might want to think about under these you know 3
categories.
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Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
And lastly, on pricing or monetization type of questions, you could think about four ways or models
through ads directly charging customers, you know through the other three piece in your 4:00 PM model
or through licenses, sponsorship, other models of revenue generation in terms of strategy, you could,
you know, speak about only just the previous slide.
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Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
Yeah, you could speak about one time costs, subscription models, other type of models or you know in
terms of a pricing model, think about customer willingness to pay competitive pricing or cost based
pricing.
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Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
OK.
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Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
Yeah. And I just wanted to, you know, take you through an example of how you can approach a general
strategy type of question. So I've so the question here that you know I've given is should Google acquire
Fitbit?
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Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
So what you can so one approach could be you can start off after you ask your you know clarifying
questions. You could say that I would want to analyze Google and some internal considerations and
motivations. So talk about the company, talk about the acquisition. So Fitbit and its performance and talk
about external factors and under company. Please do mention Google's mission. You guys should think
about the mission of different companies and you could use it in either a product design or.
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Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
So like strategy question, that's very helpful. You could think about internal product lines and also
product cannibalization after the acquisition. So kind of do a SWOT analysis there.
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Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
In terms of Fitbit the acquisition, the company that you'll be acquiring, think about the mission and
vision of you know it or you can clarify this with your interviewer. You could think about the different
product lines, the performance of the company as a whole and also think about cost and revenue
synergies.
0:24:46.930 --> 0:24:59.130
Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
Uh, in terms of external competitors, you could think about like the general competitors of, you know, in
tech that Google has Apple, Microsoft and Amazon. And what is the competition doing in this case?
0:24:59.760 --> 0:25:6.920
Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
And then finally, you know, you could also think about some other aspects like complementary product
lines or similarity in culture.
0:25:7.950 --> 0:25:15.700
Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
Yeah. So that's an example of product strategy. And if you have any questions, please do put them in the
chat.
0:25:16.800 --> 0:25:46.240
Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
You know, we can answer those next I'll cover product execution case and again let's start off with a brief
overview and some sample questions. So usually you get three types of questions under product
execution. One could be like a goal setting or a measuring success kind of question. The second would be
a metric or root cause. Sorry, using a metric to do a root cause analysis and the last one would be a trade
off question.
0:25:47.10 --> 0:25:57.360
Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
So typically these type of questions involve some kind of metrics which you would be discussing with the
interviewer, and then you would use that metric to solve the solve the case.
0:25:59.120 --> 0:26:11.760
Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
So under goal setting or measuring success, it's basically your ability to identify what's the right metric
and evaluate the success of either the new product feature, service division or even the company.
0:26:12.700 --> 0:26:30.570
Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
These type of questions get asked very frequently at meta or Facebook, so if you're interviewing with
this company, please go prepared. You know with you know this question in mind. So some sample
questions could be like how would you evaluate or measure the success of product X?
0:26:31.210 --> 0:26:55.770
Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
Uh, how would you measure the success of Facebook events if you are PM for marketplaces, what goals
would you set, etcetera. So yeah, yeah, you can prepare along the same lines and I've listed out a
framework here which is very popularly used for this type of question. So it's called the game framework
where after you've finished asking your clarifying questions, you would go into the goals.
0:26:57.440 --> 0:27:20.160
Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
You you would clarify them and then you know, state what kind of goal that you'll be measuring. Second,
you would think about all the actions. So while doing this, think about all your stakeholders, not just your
users. And then under each stakeholder think about what kind of actions that person will be doing using
this device or product or feature or whatever it might be.
0:27:21.20 --> 0:27:51.40
Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
Later, you, after prioritizing your list of actions, go into metrics and also think about what would be your
North Star metric. What would be the most important metric that you would like to call out? And finally
do some evaluation. So prioritize your list of metrics and conclude your answer. You know giving them a
recommendation on the question. Also evaluate the metric that you have selected going into some kind
of tradeoffs or limitations similar to what you might be doing in a product design question.
0:27:51.300 --> 0:27:52.50
Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
Like only imagine.
0:27:54.40 --> 0:28:12.610
Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
So I think Dileep will be covering an example of this. So watch out for it. I'll go to the next type of
question which would be the root cause analysis. So this is a question that gets asked quite frequently at
Google. So under the analytical type of interview.
0:28:13.710 --> 0:28:43.420
Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
So besides estimations, they also ask you root cause analysis questions. So here are some examples.
Would be so say the data usage on Google Photos have gone down considerably. What would you do? Or
Facebook users have reduced? What would you do or investigate? So the framework that you could use
and that's very helpful is start off of course by asking clarifying questions. Second is layout a structure. So
you could say something like first I'll attempt to find out the root cause.
0:28:43.840 --> 0:28:49.790
Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
Then I'll quantify the impact and finally look at next steps to make sure that this doesn't happen again.
0:28:50.590 --> 0:28:50.980
Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
OK.
0:28:52.620 --> 0:29:23.630
Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
Yeah. And then continuing, you know, in your framework you could then go into root cause analysis. So
you could systematically look at various factors that have caused the issue. So both internal as well as
external. First, you could look at external events. So think about geographical, geographical events or
maybe competitive movements, etc. Then you could go into internal issues. So if something has changed
on the platform or you know where the specific type of customer or something else.
0:29:24.20 --> 0:29:32.980
Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
You could, you know, brainstorm with the interviewer. Then you could list out possible reasons to reduce
the scope and get to the root cause.
0:29:34.910 --> 0:30:3.450
Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
Next, start thinking about the impact. So after figuring out the root cause, think about what kind of
impact it might have had both short term and long term, so it could be a drop in revenue drop in
customers, say the NPS score has dropped. You know things like that. So discuss that. And then finally
talk about what could be done to reverse the issue and make sure it doesn't happen. So how would you
mitigate it? And you know what else could you do so that it doesn't happen in the future?
0:30:4.220 --> 0:30:13.220
Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
Umm so this this is the uh, so that was the product execution. I'll I'll pass it off to Dileep to take you
through analytics and metrics.
0:30:18.50 --> 0:30:49.440
Kandula, Dileep
Thanks, rishab. Hi everyone. I know like this is a lot of information to sort of process and digest and one
setting it honestly kind of feels like an overkill. But yeah, I mean as you start looking into, I mean like you
know just going through this taking a look at those books and start using those resources that Murli has
shared, you'll start feeling better gradually. I mean, you shouldn't sort of try to dive into everything in
one go start with one category.
0:30:49.540 --> 0:31:5.90
Kandula, Dileep
Spend a little time on it and then pick the second one. Pick the third one, so that'll be a good way to go
about it. And one thing I want to mention about some of the platforms, especially the stellar pears one
is, I mean, a lot of platforms that.
0:31:5.900 --> 0:31:36.230
Kandula, Dileep
You have this option to sort of case with random people and the good thing with like casing as opposed
to consulting casing is you're not just when you try to match with people you're not matched with just
people from other business schools. You also get matched with people who are already working in the
industry as product managers and have a Google or Microsoft or Facebook interview coming up and
they're preparing for that. So that's a good exposure that you'll get. And Stella appears thing also allows
you to join as an observer.
0:31:36.930 --> 0:31:58.550
Kandula, Dileep
And not just as a, you know, I mean you just starting, you kind of scared you like too afraid to embarrass
yourselves in front of someone, so you can just join as an observer and watch two people casing. So
Stella appears platform allows you to do that. So I would strongly recommend you sign up for that as
well. Especially it can be useful in the beginning.
0:32:0.290 --> 0:32:2.260
Kandula, Dileep
OK, so now let's dive into.
0:32:0.430 --> 0:32:2.400
Singh, Murli
Perfect. Thank you for bringing this up, Dileep.
0:32:3.250 --> 0:32:3.830
Kandula, Dileep
Sorry.
0:32:7.190 --> 0:32:7.620
Kandula, Dileep
Yeah.
0:32:4.250 --> 0:32:10.220
Singh, Murli
And what I'm saying, I was saying that thank you for bringing that up. Yeah, that's unique about standard
pier. You can join as an observer. Great point.
0:32:11.280 --> 0:32:19.410
Kandula, Dileep
Yeah. And then let's dive into this metrics. This is basically now we are entering the Quan part of the
Quan Territory. I know everyone loves Quant.
0:32:20.140 --> 0:32:30.790
Kandula, Dileep
So the Quan part, we have three types of questions that you can get a metrics pricing or estimation.
We'll start with metrics.
0:32:32.0 --> 0:32:57.250
Kandula, Dileep
And honestly, some of these you'll kind of feel like there's an overlap to what has been covered so far.
The metrics thing rarely comes up on its own. It's usually an extension of, you know, a design case or a
strategy case or an execution case. The way it usually works is OK you've you've tried to solve a problem,
or you've tried to build a new feature. So now how will you measure if it works?
0:32:57.900 --> 0:33:25.110
Kandula, Dileep
So you have to sort of come up with what metrics you would track so that you'll see whether the whole
initiative has been a success or not. So that's basically what the metrics is and this several frameworks
that you can use, but for the sake of this, we can start with one of the basic ones, which is an ARM
framework framework which I stands for acquisition or you can read it on the screen.
0:33:25.550 --> 0:33:28.670
Kandula, Dileep
Uh, so, can you just go back once more?
0:33:30.760 --> 0:33:48.90
Kandula, Dileep
Thank you. So acquisition basically to sort of explain what it is. It can be something like you know,
someone who signed up for Spotify premium account or a free Slack account or created a Facebook
account but haven't uploaded the profile picture is not not really using it just signed up and exited.
0:33:48.970 --> 0:34:3.490
Kandula, Dileep
Activation is making sure that the person has started using it. If it's slag, they're yeah, they're actively
messaging people. Facebook uploaded Profile Pictures, started posting, engaging with people, all of that
retention is.
0:34:3.570 --> 0:34:7.360
Kandula, Dileep
So if it's a paid thing, like a.
0:34:8.80 --> 0:34:9.400
Kandula, Dileep
Slag or.
0:34:10.340 --> 0:34:33.150
Kandula, Dileep
Spotify, they're coming back month on month, on month and renewing their subscription that can come
under retention and monetization eventually is OK are we providing it as a free service like a Facebook or
are we providing it as a Spotify thing? And if we're providing it as a free service, at what stage do we
monetize and how we can go about it?
0:34:35.430 --> 0:34:36.80
Kandula, Dileep
Next movie.
0:34:36.920 --> 0:34:57.980
Kandula, Dileep
So this is a sample case, uh, kind of pretty basic. So the interviewer asked. LinkedIn is testing a new
feature and which is asking a new user to upload their profile picture during the sign up phase. Currently
a new user is asked to upload it after the sign up phase. So it's kind of like a two step process but they
want to bring it forward and they want to see.
0:34:59.270 --> 0:35:27.280
Kandula, Dileep
How how would you evaluate the success of this initiative once they do it? So I mean like in all of these
questions, if any of you have done any consulting casing, the first thing you do is take a minute sort of try
to structure everything and here it it's also kind of similar. So in this case the candidate takes time and
comes up with these buckets. So here they the candidate has come up with an extra bucket called
engagement because that's relevant in this case.
0:35:28.360 --> 0:35:31.300
Kandula, Dileep
And then, yeah, once you come up with your buckets, you sort of.
0:35:32.0 --> 0:35:40.0
Kandula, Dileep
Explain what each of those terms mean, and then yeah, I acquisition is number of lazy registration
people who just signed up.
0:35:41.110 --> 0:36:6.830
Kandula, Dileep
Activation is that complete? The sign up, profile picture and everything engagement is the next step, and
then retention is whether they're coming back after a day. After a week, after a month and monetization,
there are several metrics, and here the candidate just, you know, laid out the possible metrics. ARPU is
average revenue per user, next one is average revenue per paying user because not everyone's paying.
0:36:7.680 --> 0:36:22.400
Kandula, Dileep
And then average revenue per daily active user and then LTV and conversion LTV is the lifetime value and
conversion rate basically which talks about the funnel, how many people coming at the top and how
many people are trickling down to each step of the funnel.
0:36:24.410 --> 0:36:25.290
Kandula, Dileep
Yeah, next.
0:36:26.120 --> 0:36:28.630
Kandula, Dileep
So candidate in this case says that.
0:36:30.70 --> 0:36:38.480
Kandula, Dileep
For this question, we don't really need to look at the first and last steps of the funnel. I mean of the
framework and we only need to look at the.
0:36:39.270 --> 0:36:52.560
Kandula, Dileep
Middle three and then the interview was like, OK, as a next step, this is the data we have. They've
already launched the feature and they've tracked the metrics and these are the metrics. And then the
interviewer wants the candidate to look at these and.
0:36:53.400 --> 0:36:54.470
Kandula, Dileep
Draw conclusions.
0:36:55.820 --> 0:37:13.790
Kandula, Dileep
So the candidate is that the engagement has gone up, as you can see the profile completeness, number
of polls, number of users who posted number of invites and all of these things have gone up and even
the retention has gone up to an extent. They probably don't have enough data to measure 30 days yet. It
probably was a recent change.
0:37:15.340 --> 0:37:25.120
Kandula, Dileep
And then you can see at the first step the number of users who actually signed up has gone down. That's
a double digit drop compared to other single digit increases.
0:37:25.740 --> 0:37:35.690
Kandula, Dileep
So yeah, man, as in life, most things are not clear. Correct. So it's kind of a tough call. The users rationale
here is that.
0:37:37.170 --> 0:37:44.580
Kandula, Dileep
Since we're getting more engagement, I mean, what's the point if you just getting users who wouldn't
engage anyway so?
0:37:45.460 --> 0:37:47.130
Kandula, Dileep
The candidate here believes.
0:37:48.420 --> 0:37:55.120
Kandula, Dileep
You know they can live with the drop off in getting those sign ups given the increase in engagement.
0:37:55.790 --> 0:38:2.140
Kandula, Dileep
So that's that's what the candidates final answer is and that's the end of it and.
0:38:3.110 --> 0:38:7.150
Kandula, Dileep
In most of these cases, there's never really one.
0:38:7.930 --> 0:38:9.80
Kandula, Dileep
Through answer.
0:38:9.540 --> 0:38:19.970
Kandula, Dileep
Uh, it's always subject to a lot of interpretation and everything, so you just have to come up with your
conclusions and have your own logic to justify it.
0:38:21.620 --> 0:38:26.740
Kandula, Dileep
So the next thing is pricing. I mean this is something rishab has already tested upon and.
0:38:27.680 --> 0:38:57.850
Kandula, Dileep
Uh Renee Dye also would have touched upon this quite a bit in the past couple months. So yeah, these,
these, these are the like, price setting is whether largely you read the launching, launching a new
product category or you're launching a new product in an existing product category. If it's a new product
category, all you can look at is willingness to pay and cost. And if it's an existing product category, you'll
also have to take into account what the current competition price is. And then there's also another type
of.
0:38:57.930 --> 0:39:5.180
Kandula, Dileep
Is where it's about evaluating the impact of a price change, which could be, say for example.
0:39:6.370 --> 0:39:27.70
Kandula, Dileep
So Prime and Netflix recently have increased their subscription prices earlier this year. So if you're a
product manager managing that, they're you would need to sort of assess the drop off in the number of
subscriptions and see if whether the overall revenue increase will. I mean, overall revenue will go up or
down and.
0:39:27.790 --> 0:39:31.110
Kandula, Dileep
How that would fit your longer term studies equation?
0:39:33.170 --> 0:39:41.310
Kandula, Dileep
Next, cool. So this is an example. How would you price the Kindle Fire? This is kind of an outdated
question, but yeah.
0:39:42.620 --> 0:39:52.710
Kandula, Dileep
So candidate starts with a few clarifying questions. I guess the candidate in this case is not very aware of
the product. So I mean yeah, if you.
0:39:53.570 --> 0:40:6.320
Kandula, Dileep
I have entered an interview and if the question is not related to one of the products that directly belongs
to that company, you're free to ask. Like there's no judgment at all. You feel free to ask as many clarifying
questions as possible.
0:40:7.130 --> 0:40:15.550
Kandula, Dileep
If it's a product directly belonging to that company, yeah, maybe it's good to have some done some, you
know, research.
0:40:16.830 --> 0:40:18.880
Kandula, Dileep
So in this case, yeah, the interviewer.
0:40:19.680 --> 0:40:49.430
Kandula, Dileep
Says uh, yeah, sure. You can ask questions, and then the candidate asked certain questions. And it's also
important to ask relevant and direct questions that directly help you answer the question. The main
question. So you're also being judged on those metrics. And then once the candidate gets all the
information, the candidate is OK. There are three ways to look at pricing, the willingness to pay
competition, pricing and the cost based pricing. So these are the things we need to consider before we.
0:40:49.580 --> 0:40:50.670
Kandula, Dileep
That I have the final price.
0:40:52.90 --> 0:40:59.190
Kandula, Dileep
Next, Yep. So the customer continues based on. So all this information that you see here would have
been given by the interviewer.
0:41:0.570 --> 0:41:14.120
Kandula, Dileep
So if not of Kindle Fire HD, the next best alternative is the Nexus 7 and it's specs, especially the screen
resolution is similar to the Fire HD. The Nexus cost $199 so.
0:41:14.870 --> 0:41:19.330
Kandula, Dileep
From a competitive standpoint, 199 would be the most likely price.
0:41:20.180 --> 0:41:31.790
Kandula, Dileep
And then next, he looks at the unit cost of Kindle Fire HD, which it says is $174.00 and in this case he says
that you can either do a markup.
0:41:32.530 --> 0:42:1.960
Kandula, Dileep
Of the on the course just leveraging the brand value or there's also a strategy like the razor razor bridge
strategy where you sell the razor at a maybe even at a loss or maybe at a not a profit, but then raise a
blades, you sell at a much higher price than that's why you make most of your money. And in this case
the candidate is that you can maybe sell the device at no profit, but then you can make your money off
the all the other digital content that you.
0:42:2.430 --> 0:42:3.930
Kandula, Dileep
Offer letter and then.
0:42:5.430 --> 0:42:11.360
Kandula, Dileep
He also touched briefly upon, you know, if you have time. You can also look at supply demand curves and
how all that.
0:42:12.220 --> 0:42:15.900
Kandula, Dileep
Would uh materialize? But practically it's.
0:42:16.650 --> 0:42:22.260
Kandula, Dileep
You can't really do that in most cases. So yeah, what's your recommendation? And then, yeah, the
candidate provides a recommendation.
0:42:23.360 --> 0:42:27.750
Kandula, Dileep
From what he said about so, this is largely what this case looks like.
0:42:29.680 --> 0:42:37.190
Kandula, Dileep
And the next thing is estimations guesstimations. I know some people love it, some people hate it. I
know I do.
0:42:38.510 --> 0:42:39.960
Kandula, Dileep
And if.
0:42:41.150 --> 0:43:0.580
Kandula, Dileep
So I don't, so I'm sure some of you have already been engaged in consulting case prep and this is very
similar to what you see in consulting case prep for estimation questions. And sometimes the questions
might feel a little weird like you know how many footballs can you fit in the airplane or something's even
worse like I know?
0:43:2.580 --> 0:43:4.810
Kandula, Dileep
Google interview question. Someone was asked.
0:43:6.740 --> 0:43:11.10
Kandula, Dileep
If you have a team working on Mars.
0:43:12.600 --> 0:43:15.700
Kandula, Dileep
What is your required Internet speed?
0:43:16.650 --> 0:43:21.200
Kandula, Dileep
Uh, so that you know you can work without any lag. So that was a question.
0:43:22.360 --> 0:43:28.260
Kandula, Dileep
In an actual Google interview. So yeah, sometimes they just try to throw you off, but don't get taken
aback.
0:43:29.30 --> 0:43:59.440
Kandula, Dileep
You'll obviously have to make assumptions no one knows anything. I mean, I'm sure none of us can even
say the distance between the earth and the Mars. So yeah, we have to make certain assumptions and
whatever assumption you make, just explain your logic for it. And while approaching this questions is
largely 2 two approaches. Either you go top down or bottom up. Top down is starting at the population
of the US and you know, narrowing down towards your segment.
0:43:59.760 --> 0:44:14.110
Kandula, Dileep
And then maybe trying to find out how frequently your target segment engages with the product or
once a product bottoms up is say if you're looking to estimate the number of iPhone sales, I mean.
0:44:14.910 --> 0:44:20.770
Kandula, Dileep
Big Random apple store. See how many are sold there and then try to come up with a.
0:44:21.970 --> 0:44:27.450
Kandula, Dileep
How many Apple stores are in the US? So that's a very high level description of it.
0:44:28.460 --> 0:44:29.80
Kandula, Dileep
Next.
0:44:29.950 --> 0:44:47.260
Kandula, Dileep
So this question once again here is how many queries per second does e-mail get. So here it's kind of
vague. There's no standard definition on how many queries per second does e-mail here. The first thing
the candidate does is I'm going to create a definition for it.
0:44:47.930 --> 0:44:55.620
Kandula, Dileep
So it says, uh, I'm gonna define a query as an operation and the operation can be either a read or write
or a search operation.
0:44:57.200 --> 0:45:5.980
Kandula, Dileep
So first, uh. He's going. He's doing the top down approach. How many users are there? How many
people use Gmail and then?
0:45:6.650 --> 0:45:28.200
Kandula, Dileep
He is stating his approach up front, so this is how I'm gonna work here and then he goes through each
item of the the things that he mentions. So starting from the top he says 7 billion population, Internet
usage, maybe 7080% developing countries. It's lower. So he came up with the total number of Internet
users, which is 2.8 billion.
0:45:29.630 --> 0:45:30.250
Kandula, Dileep
Next.
0:45:31.570 --> 0:45:36.380
Kandula, Dileep
And then next number I need is a percentage of people that use Gmail as a primary account.
0:45:37.190 --> 0:46:9.440
Kandula, Dileep
Uh. And then he's segmenting it, whether some of his friends versus who are more tech savvy and more
American versus some other parts of the world, like maybe China. Gmail is not the primary, you know, e-
mail that they use. So you need to factor some of those things and whatever you thinking, make sure
you speak it out like the interview, know that these are all the nuances that you're factoring into your
calculations and your thought process. And then once he has the number of users and then he's trying to
decide.
0:46:9.560 --> 0:46:39.510
Kandula, Dileep
And get a. What does an average person do in Gmail? I log into my Gmail multiple times a day, and when
they log in their account maybe four times a week. Instead they log in, they read 8 emails composed to
emails and search for one e-mail. So he's defined and for one person he's calculating the number of
queries per week, so that's 4 logins, and each time those multiply that with each of those queries.
0:46:40.190 --> 0:47:10.120
Kandula, Dileep
And he gets the number of queries per week per user and then now multiply that by the number of
users and then now yes, the total number of queries per week and then divide that by the time in a
week you get per second. So that's how you get at the value. So yeah, this is kind of a simplified version
of it. Yeah. I mean, depending on the question you, you pick your own path to sort of arrive at the
answer and you do your own math, you make your own.
0:47:10.200 --> 0:47:11.710
Kandula, Dileep
Assumptions come up with your own numbers.
0:47:13.270 --> 0:47:15.80
Kandula, Dileep
And the last one.
0:47:16.710 --> 0:47:34.410
Kandula, Dileep
Profit and loss. This rarely features in tech interviews. This is more of a consulting thing, but I mean we
know Capital One has a product manager role which features this. And honestly, even in this case
example is from the capital on handbook so.
0:47:36.30 --> 0:48:4.140
Kandula, Dileep
Yeah, let's go through it. The background information, you're a manager at a company that Mark is
various products and services looking to diversify and they're interested in a magazine, starting a
magazine. So the first question, what are some of the issues you must consider when evaluating the
business things to consider? You kind of have to look at what the target market is and what competition
you have already there. What are your core competencies?
0:48:4.500 --> 0:48:18.650
Kandula, Dileep
And how you can leverage those barriers to entry, I mean all these strategy stuff, which I'm sure Renee
Dye has drilled down very strongly into all of you guys. And then the next step is understanding the unit
economics or back.
0:48:20.870 --> 0:48:26.460
Kandula, Dileep
Yeah, unit economics, what are the profit divers? So you kind of have to come up with?
0:48:27.700 --> 0:48:45.970
Kandula, Dileep
What are the things that'll make you money? What are the things that will cost you money? So the cost
here are printing, distribution, content development, marketing. You have to do a lot of marketing,
especially in the beginning and what you can make money from or subscriptions, newsstand sales,
advertising in the magazine.
0:48:47.70 --> 0:48:53.340
Kandula, Dileep
Customer less Internet. Uh. I mean, if you have a web version as well that yeah, next.
0:48:56.270 --> 0:49:6.180
Kandula, Dileep
And through some initial research, I mean this is information that like once you list down all of those
things, then the interviewer will give you further information to proceed. In this case it is.
0:49:7.490 --> 0:49:21.530
Kandula, Dileep
After some initial research, you know that you can charge $25 for an annual subscription of 50 issues,
and we'll just ignore the new new stand sales for the use of calculation and you have the what you can
generate.
0:49:22.550 --> 0:49:45.70
Kandula, Dileep
For through advertising and all that information, so you have all the information for all each of the cost
and revenue drivers that you've listed previously and now the next step is, yeah, man, what's the unit
margin? So you add up all the revenues and subtract all the costs and you arrive at profit from one
incremental subscription is $25.
0:49:46.750 --> 0:50:0.180
Kandula, Dileep
So how many do we need to sell to break even? So break even is pretty obvious. What is the fixed one
time cost and what is the unit profit and how many do you need to sell this divide those you get the.
0:50:1.360 --> 0:50:16.380
Kandula, Dileep
Uh, you know, break even volume and then the interviewer says there's a marketing cost as well. And
then he gives us a funnel sort of thing. So if you do a direct mail thing, each mail costs.
0:50:17.140 --> 0:50:21.910
Kandula, Dileep
Adopt A $0.50 and you're able to receive 2% response rate next.
0:50:23.870 --> 0:50:30.270
Kandula, Dileep
So you need to calculate what your total marketing costs. There are two ways to arrive at the number.
You can either go a funnel route or you can just do a.
0:50:31.350 --> 0:50:37.60
Kandula, Dileep
As young girls, 100 people and calculate the cost. So this way you calculating that.
0:50:38.470 --> 0:50:39.60
Kandula, Dileep
But.
0:50:40.190 --> 0:51:6.880
Kandula, Dileep
Successful acquisition of a customer, you're spending $25 on marketing, but remember our profit was
$25.00. So basically we are not making any money in this case. So yeah that's that's the case and then
they might ask for a you know, qualitative assessment on what are the things you would do to sort of
make this more viable. So you can come up with some of your own recommendations and then you
summarize the whole thing. So that'll be it.
0:51:8.810 --> 0:51:15.110
Singh, Murli
Thank you. The lip as next steps those who filled out the interest form.
0:51:15.850 --> 0:51:47.230
Singh, Murli
I'm gonna e-mail them their coaches, and then once you receive that, you can start setting up your
meeting for practice. But before you set up your meeting for practicing your star stories or your cases,
please, please, please do read the books, if not completely, but at least few few examples, few cases and
then also was the demos published on track Exponent and Rocketblocks YouTube as well and as Dileep
also mentioned that stellar pair you can become an observer. Just see that and then you.
0:51:47.320 --> 0:51:56.140
Singh, Murli
When you come to us, that will be a more productive for you guys like you will practice real time and
then to feedback that we will give you that will help you Polish your.
0:51:57.270 --> 0:52:5.230
Singh, Murli
Your your interviews. So with that, the last thing is questions we did finish under one hour, yeah.
0:52:6.310 --> 0:52:10.870
Singh, Murli
But afect. So I will stop sharing and then you guys can ask questions.
0:52:12.610 --> 0:52:13.10
Singh, Murli
Umm.
0:52:14.170 --> 0:52:16.30
Kandula, Dileep
Yeah, just feel free to come off mute.
0:52:24.700 --> 0:52:25.30
Kandula, Dileep
Yeah.
0:52:26.370 --> 0:52:26.630
Singh, Murli
Yeah.
0:52:19.40 --> 0:52:28.110
Wilcox, Drew
Now my question is, can this deck be shared out? Cause definitely is a lot of information and I'd like to be
able to like refer back to it.
0:52:29.120 --> 0:52:29.650
Kandula, Dileep
Yeah.
0:52:28.770 --> 0:52:34.90
Singh, Murli
Yeah, recording and that both will be shared. So we are recording right, sorry.
0:52:35.160 --> 0:52:36.710
Kandula, Dileep
Yep, it's being recorded. I can see.
0:52:38.340 --> 0:52:38.750
Yoon, Suh
Umm.
0:52:37.700 --> 0:52:40.30
Singh, Murli
Yeah, I got OK.
0:52:41.300 --> 0:52:46.790
Yoon, Suh
And really, you have a Bank of we have a Bank of like case interview question to you, right?
0:52:48.40 --> 0:52:48.810
Singh, Murli
Bank one.
0:52:49.450 --> 0:52:52.820
Yoon, Suh
Like a Bank of product cases. Case question.
0:52:54.360 --> 0:52:55.900
Yoon, Suh
Yeah, well, sure.
0:52:53.300 --> 0:53:0.160
Singh, Murli
Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's yeah. Yeah. I just, yeah, I just post that link as well and then we will send that in
the e-mail as well. Yeah.
0:53:0.910 --> 0:53:6.720
Yoon, Suh
Yeah, it's like a thing of, like, all the interview questions that candidates people have had, which I found
really helpful.
0:53:7.780 --> 0:53:10.700
Singh, Murli
Yeah, yeah, I have that link. It's.
0:53:10.120 --> 0:53:12.270
Kandula, Dileep
Yeah, I've got another question.
0:53:13.600 --> 0:53:19.90
Kandula, Dileep
Yeah, I think it looks like he has an interview tomorrow and he wants some advice.
0:53:19.930 --> 0:53:20.810
Kandula, Dileep
Who wants to go?
0:53:23.710 --> 0:53:25.580
Singh, Murli
Which will what question you asked.
0:53:31.680 --> 0:53:33.610
Singh, Murli
Who has question? Who has interview? Sorry.
0:53:33.140 --> 0:53:46.730
Parthasarathy, Akash
Uh, hey, so sorry. I I I was trying. I just had something going on here. I so I have an interview tomorrow
with Apple and I was just wondering just if you had one thing for me to remember before I go in there.
Like what should that be?
0:53:48.500 --> 0:53:51.410
Singh, Murli
What kind of interview is that for which role, product role or?
0:53:50.680 --> 0:53:59.490
Parthasarathy, Akash
Uh, it's a it's it's actually uh, business process role. So it's a bishops role I think so yeah, if you have any
any advice about that?
0:54:1.360 --> 0:54:2.990
Parthasarathy, Akash
The business process transformation.
0:54:6.420 --> 0:54:6.940
Kandula, Dileep
So.
0:54:8.730 --> 0:54:15.860
Kandula, Dileep
I've I've mostly had only product interviews in tech and I've had maybe one LDP interview.
0:54:16.510 --> 0:54:23.680
Kandula, Dileep
And I'd say probably the business business bishops role ohh you, it's tomorrow, right? You don't have
time to speak to anyone. OK, cool.
0:54:25.380 --> 0:54:32.310
Kandula, Dileep
Yeah, there's there's an alarm from class of 21 who's in? Ohh, so that's Adobe. Never mind.
0:54:33.190 --> 0:54:55.840
Kandula, Dileep
Ohh. OK, cool. Yeah. So uh in a non product interview, what I've seen was the interview. I mean if there's
a case element, it's gonna be closer to the consulting type of casing, but you're not really expected to be
as structured and methodical as in a consulting interview.
0:54:56.440 --> 0:55:11.290
Kandula, Dileep
Uh, yeah. I mean they expect some amount of structure, but it's largely depending on the quality of your
ideas and clarity of thought. So that's that's most that's more important in tech, non product casing
interviews.
0:55:12.390 --> 0:55:16.870
Kandula, Dileep
And so, uh, you had a non product interview at Microsoft, right?
0:55:17.770 --> 0:55:18.720
Kandula, Dileep
Uh.
0:55:21.650 --> 0:55:23.450
Yoon, Suh
Yeah, I I did.
0:55:23.890 --> 0:55:37.100
Kandula, Dileep
Yeah. So Akash and I think you are not on the call Akash has an interview with Apple in a bizarre OPS role
coming up tomorrow and he wants to understand or if you have any advice on what type of cases or
what type of.
0:55:37.840 --> 0:55:38.880
Singh, Murli
So I've got.
0:55:38.140 --> 0:55:39.470
Kandula, Dileep
Questions to expect in general.
0:55:40.410 --> 0:55:44.140
Singh, Murli
So Akash, did they mention what kind of interview format will be or?
0:55:43.880 --> 0:55:51.270
Parthasarathy, Akash
Yeah. So, so actually there's two rounds. So tomorrow's I think just the behavioral but day after I have
another one which has a case element to it.
0:55:52.180 --> 0:55:52.720
Singh, Murli
Gotcha.
0:55:52.120 --> 0:55:53.440
Parthasarathy, Akash
Umm yeah.
0:56:4.40 --> 0:56:4.370
Parthasarathy, Akash
Umm.
0:56:13.660 --> 0:56:14.90
Parthasarathy, Akash
Umm.
0:56:15.360 --> 0:56:15.630
Parthasarathy, Akash
OK.
0:56:20.590 --> 0:56:20.930
Parthasarathy, Akash
Mm-hmm.
0:55:54.30 --> 0:56:24.170
Singh, Murli
So I think first research on what kind of interview like casing they asked because there are a few
companies that I know like Capital One is very picky about their own products. So before going in, so if
you pass the Weaver around, if you are moving to the next round, they might ask you about their own
product depending on what what kind of interview questions they ask. I don't I'm not sure about Apple,
but Capital One is very picky about their products. So they did ask me about their own products level 1,
whereas Google and Facebook.
0:56:25.970 --> 0:56:26.330
Parthasarathy, Akash
Hmm.
0:56:29.20 --> 0:56:29.330
Parthasarathy, Akash
OK.
0:56:24.250 --> 0:56:33.820
Singh, Murli
The more open to any kind of product and they will give you the background. So I think you need to
research on Apple one because I have not sure what kind of questions Apple asked.
0:56:33.840 --> 0:56:34.720
Parthasarathy, Akash
OK, got it.
0:56:34.190 --> 0:56:49.310
Yoon, Suh
Yeah. Keith interviewed for that role last year and he got the offer and he his case question was like if
you could change one thing about the side button of an iPhone. Like, what would it be and why so?
0:56:53.780 --> 0:56:54.130
Parthasarathy, Akash
Mm-hmm.
0:57:0.550 --> 0:57:0.920
Singh, Murli
Yeah.
0:57:2.220 --> 0:57:2.620
Parthasarathy, Akash
Umm.
0:56:50.0 --> 0:57:4.410
Yoon, Suh
To me, that seems like more general slash unstructured, but it could really depend and I know John
Bresler recently interviewed with Apple for I think the exact same positions but for the whole time
version. So I don't know if you've talked to him yet, but.
0:57:5.80 --> 0:57:5.510
Yoon, Suh
You can.
0:57:4.890 --> 0:57:5.800
Parthasarathy, Akash
Umm OK.
0:57:6.520 --> 0:57:9.90
Parthasarathy, Akash
I'll I'll reach out to him. I haven't yet. But yeah, I could.
0:57:9.210 --> 0:57:9.520
Singh, Murli
OK.
0:57:9.450 --> 0:57:13.450
Yoon, Suh
Yeah, you should just send them a quick text and he's right. But I just wanted.
0:57:13.970 --> 0:57:14.270
Parthasarathy, Akash
OK.
0:57:15.560 --> 0:57:16.190
Parthasarathy, Akash
Thank you guys.
0:57:15.490 --> 0:57:35.80
Singh, Murli
And also I just posted a link Google Docs that has all the questions about product management. This
sheet is I think entered by all different kind different colleges, different schools. So it is very exhaustive
list. If you go through the the question there is stated back to I don't 17 or something.
0:57:35.940 --> 0:57:39.660
Singh, Murli
I don't know if they have removed today good questions, but yeah.
0:57:45.270 --> 0:57:46.370
Singh, Murli
Any other questions?
0:57:55.380 --> 0:57:55.920
Wilcox, Drew
Another.
0:57:54.900 --> 0:58:25.590
Kandula, Dileep
I know there was a question about the Amazon assessment. Sorry to, and I'm gonna take answer this
here because I'm sure everyone here will be applying to Amazon and it's it's a blanket sort of thing.
Everyone who applies gets it. If you're applying to an RDP role, the assessment will be slightly different
from the rest. This is basically two kinds of applications, I guess every all the roles and then one separate
for the RLP ones, it's basically what they're looking at is whether you fit in with their leadership.
0:58:25.660 --> 0:58:35.290
Kandula, Dileep
I suppose and their way of thinking or not, it's not a test of a skill set, but it is very important in the sense
that it's kind of an eligibility criteria.
0:58:36.730 --> 0:58:37.750
Kandula, Dileep
People like.
0:58:38.410 --> 0:58:49.430
Kandula, Dileep
You some people who they deem that they don't fit in with their leadership principles will get a rejection
within 24 to 48 hours after you take the assessment.
0:58:50.490 --> 0:58:55.590
Kandula, Dileep
If you don't get that rejection, you can expect an interview invite between now and April.
0:58:56.910 --> 0:58:59.750
Kandula, Dileep
So I know that's not helpful, but that's just how they do things here.
0:59:2.520 --> 0:59:10.910
Singh, Murli
And for those who have exam, sorry, uh, the assessment exam. I'm trying to find the link.
0:59:12.320 --> 0:59:18.310
Singh, Murli
Where have they have a demonstrated? What kind of questions expect? Just give me a second. I'll post
that link as well.
0:59:22.160 --> 0:59:23.720
Yoon, Suh
For the Amazon assessment.
0:59:24.640 --> 0:59:28.930
Singh, Murli
Yeah. For Amazon assessment, they have kind of recording recordings that Amazon provide.
0:59:29.820 --> 0:59:35.840
Singh, Murli
On the page. So I think they call it splash page or something, but I have the link and let me just find out.
0:59:36.780 --> 0:59:41.110
Yoon, Suh
I would have someone have an Amazon assessment coming up. I can give you test too.
0:59:42.760 --> 0:59:54.650
Wilcox, Drew
I just posted a bunch of resources that are in like the first year's kind of like tech chat. I found them really
helpful like like, you know, just kind of overviews of the leadership principles. I thought it was really
helpful.
0:59:58.160 --> 0:59:59.970
Wilcox, Drew
And I did have a question also.
1:0:0.90 --> 1:0:5.940
Wilcox, Drew
Uh, it's kind of changing direction. So earlier it was mentioned like it was possible to observe.
1:0:6.610 --> 1:0:14.140
Wilcox, Drew
People practicing was that export was that through exponent or is that through? I kind of missed what
tool you were talking about.
1:0:12.830 --> 1:0:14.200
Kandula, Dileep
Stella appears.
1:0:15.730 --> 1:0:18.410
Kandula, Dileep
Stella appears it's there's a logo on the deck.
1:0:19.280 --> 1:0:20.790
Kandula, Dileep
I am I on mute? I'm not on mute.
1:0:22.390 --> 1:0:23.220
Kandula, Dileep
Ohh OK cool.
1:0:23.410 --> 1:0:26.60
Wilcox, Drew
That word is just. I'm like having difficulty.
1:0:25.130 --> 1:0:27.400
Kandula, Dileep
Yeah, it's Stella peers.
1:0:28.320 --> 1:0:31.940
Wilcox, Drew
Yeah. So OK, I wrote that down, but I that's I haven't checked out.
1:0:30.860 --> 1:0:32.760
Yoon, Suh
Can you put in the chat delete?
1:0:33.320 --> 1:0:33.520
Singh, Murli
Yeah.
1:0:33.30 --> 1:0:37.80
Kandula, Dileep
Yeah, I just get the link. Give me one SEC.
1:0:44.350 --> 1:0:48.840
Singh, Murli
Yeah, it's what it fellow peers. You have to register and they send you a calendar.
1:0:50.990 --> 1:0:51.730
Kandula, Dileep
Yeah.
1:0:50.760 --> 1:0:59.60
Singh, Murli
To add that calendar on your calendar, Gmail and then you will see all the people that who have put their
open availability and then you can block those.
1:1:0.80 --> 1:1:2.50
Singh, Murli
Yeah, he just put it. OK. I was about to.
1:1:1.410 --> 1:1:12.310
Kandula, Dileep
Yeah, the initial sign up takes a couple days because they have to verify. I mean, I don't exactly
remember what they do, but they have. They have to somehow authenticate you and something and
yeah.
1:1:14.140 --> 1:1:14.560
Wilcox, Drew
Got it.
1:1:17.250 --> 1:1:17.710
Singh, Murli
Jimmy.
1:1:13.720 --> 1:1:21.510
Kandula, Dileep
And sign sign in with your Gmail address because it's easy to like. That's how it works. They link it
through the Google Calendar.
1:1:22.480 --> 1:1:23.730
Wilcox, Drew
Got it. Thank you.
1:1:28.420 --> 1:1:30.940
Singh, Murli
Cool. Any other questions anyone have?
1:1:32.830 --> 1:1:35.610
Yoon, Suh
Did you ask have to do actual math on your cases?
1:1:38.400 --> 1:1:39.310
Kandula, Dileep
Asking me.
1:1:39.980 --> 1:1:43.570
Yoon, Suh
Uh, yeah, you guys, whoever did paces.
1:1:43.90 --> 1:1:43.620
Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
For the.
1:1:41.840 --> 1:1:46.270
Kandula, Dileep
Ohh I I think one of the question I was asked.
1:1:47.230 --> 1:1:51.460
Kandula, Dileep
In my Google thing was if you were to.
1:1:52.300 --> 1:1:58.30
Kandula, Dileep
Uh deliver pizzas with drones using drones in Atlanta. How many would you need?
1:1:59.190 --> 1:1:59.610
Yoon, Suh
Umm.
1:2:0.280 --> 1:2:2.290
Kandula, Dileep
So yeah, I did have to do some math.
1:2:2.770 --> 1:2:3.740
Singh, Murli
Yeah. And they do ask.
1:2:4.160 --> 1:2:5.390
Yoon, Suh
And use a calculator.
1:2:6.540 --> 1:2:7.420
Kandula, Dileep
Umm, no.
1:2:9.780 --> 1:2:10.190
Pradeep Padukone, Rishab
Yeah.
1:2:8.130 --> 1:2:10.400
Singh, Murli
Depends on the company's feeling. They say no.
1:2:9.310 --> 1:2:13.500
Kandula, Dileep
I mean, you can sort of round the numbers of there, they'll have you that so.
1:2:13.570 --> 1:2:13.830
Singh, Murli
Yeah.
1:2:15.910 --> 1:2:17.320
Yoon, Suh
No, that's not for me.
1:2:20.300 --> 1:2:21.10
Kandula, Dileep
Yeah.
1:2:20.780 --> 1:2:21.210
Singh, Murli
Cool.
1:2:22.70 --> 1:2:27.560
Singh, Murli
If there are no other questions, then I think we can end this session and give you guys back what, 23
minutes?
1:2:29.560 --> 1:2:31.370
Singh, Murli
Cool. And then uh, Sue.
1:2:31.780 --> 1:2:36.240
Singh, Murli
Uh, who will have the recording? Me right. This is my session, so I'll have the recording right.
1:2:38.740 --> 1:2:39.130
Singh, Murli
OK.
1:2:36.970 --> 1:2:45.830
Yoon, Suh
I think no. I'll have it and then I'll know where to upload it. And then there's a bunch of like resources
that we have to like send out so we can all send it out in one e-mail.
1:2:46.540 --> 1:2:46.910
Singh, Murli
OK.
1:2:46.610 --> 1:2:47.110
Kandula, Dileep
Yeah.
1:2:49.110 --> 1:2:49.950
Singh, Murli
I'll, I'll.
1:2:49.130 --> 1:2:52.80
Yoon, Suh
And then if you all have. Ohh sorry, Riley. I cut you off.
1:2:51.520 --> 1:2:59.870
Singh, Murli
No, I'll chat, chat, chat with you offline. Just uh, like who's going to send the e-mail then if you're
recording, then maybe it's you who can send the e-mail. If that's fine with you.
1:3:1.10 --> 1:3:11.340
Yoon, Suh
Yeah, yeah. And if you all, like, want to, like, Prep during winter break, I don't know about anyone else.
But, like, if if you wanna prep with me, like, just put time on my calendar.
1:3:9.990 --> 1:3:14.110
Kandula, Dileep
Thinking and stop the recording. This will just increase the length, size and.
1:3:14.770 --> 1:3:25.540
Yoon, Suh
Wow. I guess no one wants to hear me. No, I don't even know how to speak with the recording. Oh my
God. Thank God. And go to Microsoft. How do you stop this? Ohh, I got you. I got you.