Lyft - Product Manager Interview Questions

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Product Design

1. If you were the PM for Lyft, what dashboard would you build to track health of the app? 

2.  Design Lyft for kids. 

3. How would you build social features on Lyft to increase user engagement. 

4. Brainstorm and prioritize ideas to address long wait time at an amusement park. 

5. How would you improve retention for drivers on Lyft? 

6. How would you implement dynamic pricing? How would you A/B test it? 

7. How would you design a bicycle renting app for tourists?

8. How would you design a car sharing platform like Uber for disabled people? 

9. Design Dynamic Pricing for Lyft. 

10. Design a referral system for a grocery app. 

11. How can Lyft break into the private ambulance market?

12. Design an app for making someone a better cook. 

13. How would you design at ETA system for Lyft drivers?

14. You have been assigned as the manager to design an incentive structure to the drivers of a cab aggregator. How would design it?

15. Design Lyft for delivery. 

16. Design Lyft for deaf drivers.

17. How do you design the Lyft app for the blind? 

18. Design Lyft for large parties. 

19. How would you design Lyft for commuters? 

20. Design the next version of the scheduled rides product to allow drivers to accept scheduled ride requests in advance. 

21. Design a dashboard for Lyft Drivers. What metrics would you use to measure success of this dashboard? 

22. You are a PM at Lyft, You are asked to build a product for grocery delivery. How would you build it? 

23. How would you design an app for truck dispatchers? 

24. Imagine that you are a product manager at Uber. And you want children to use Uber as an independent user. How would you tackle this problem? Feel free to either build a new app or modify existing app. 

25. Design a new food startup.

26. Design an ads product for Lyft.

27. How would you let Lyft drivers select from scheduled rides?

28. How would design a web interface for Lyft?

29. Design an identity platform for Lyft.

30. If Apple was launching a new phone that had sensors to detect smells, design an app for it.

31. How would you reduce driver cancellations on Uber?

32. Design a contactless ride experience for Uber.

33. Imagine you are the Product Manager at Uber Freight. The CEO asks you to build an in-app chat feature. What would you do?

34. Design a loyalty program for a search engine that's competing with Google & Bing.

35. How would you design a car-sharing platform like Uber for disabled people?

36. Imagine that you are a product manager at Uber. And you want children to use Uber as an independent users. How would you tackle this problem? Feel free to either build a new app or modify the existing app.

37. Design Uber for pets.

38. What would you build to replace service dogs?

39. Imagine you are a PM for UBER for a default pickup location feature. How would you improve this feature?

40. In a home delivery type of business, design specific technology/software features that would improve the overall accuracy of the delivery time estimates.

41. Design the next version of the scheduled rides product to allow drivers to accept scheduled ride requests in advance.

42. How would design an Uber for laundry?

43. Redesign the city parking experience.

44. You have been assigned as the manager to design an incentive structure to the drivers of a cab aggregator. How would design it?

45. How would you design an Uber riding pass?

46. How do you design the Lyft app for the blind?

47. At the end of any event (Sports event, Concerts, New Year Event etc.), there is a rush of people leaving the venue all at once and there is a mismatch in demand & supply for Uber. Surge pricing is not so effective in managing it and it also gets us bad press. You are a PM at Uber and have been asked to solve this problem. What product interventions can you introduce here?

48. Design a fire alarm system for the deaf.

49. How can Lyft break into the private ambulance market?

50. Design a referral system for a grocery app.

51. Design a banking application for a blind customer or with low vision impairment.

52. Design a library for the future.

53. How would you design a bicycle renting app for tourists?

54. Re-design the airport experience.

55. You are a PM at UberEATS. What feature would you build to optimize for average basket size?

56. You're the PM for UberPool. How would you create value for it?

57. Design a better experience for going to/from large events. How would you leverage on-the-ground operations to execute it? How would you test it? What would the UX look like?

58. How would you design a product for improving teenage health?

59. Design an ATM for the Blind

60. Design Facebook Movies

61. Design a Vending Machine for the Blind people

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Behavioral

1. Describe your day-to-day activities as a Product Manager

2. Why do you want to leave your current company?

3. Why do you want to join our company?

4. How do you Prioritize your Work?

5. How do you deal with Low Performing Employees?

6. What are you looking for in your next role?

7. How do you know a product is well-designed?

8. What's the one thing that excites you the most about Product Management?

9. What is your least favorite aspect of product management?

10. How do you take product decisions involving multiple stakeholders with consent?

11. How do you use research & data to guide your day-to-day decisions?

12. What tools do you use in your day-to-day activities as a Product Manager?

13. Which type of people do you like to work with?

14. Do you have any questions for me?

15. How do you manage conflicts in your team?

16. What is your biggest failure as a Product Manager?

17. How would you keep developers in your team motivated to turn out quality work?

18. What are your Strengths and Weaknesses?

19. Tell me about a time you had to make a decision to make short-term sacrifices for long-term gains.

20. How do you say NO to a feature/functionality?

21. How do you work with Engineering Team?

22. How will you manage a team where team members are more experienced than you?

23. How would you Earn the Trust of a Group?

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Product Estimation 

1. You have a grocery delivery service that delivers food within 24 hours. How many trucks would you need to operate it? 

2. What is the market for driverless cars in 2020? 

3. How many ride-share trips occur in the US daily? 

4. Estimate the number of Lyft rides given on Halloween.

5. Estimate Lyft's revenue.

6. How would you price a Tier 1 and Tier 2 Uber subscription?

7. How would you determine how many trips are taken on the London Underground each year?

8. Estimate the Number of ATMs in India

9. Estimate the total number of Airplanes in Air

10. Estimate Google AdSense revenue

11. Estimate the Weight of the Empire State Building

12. Estimation: How much do Gmail users cost Google?

13. Estimate the Number of WhatsApp Chats occurring in India

14. Estimate the Detergent usage in India per Day

15. Estimate the Number of Mobile Phones Sold in India annually

16. Estimate the Number of Hours spent on Smart Phones by all Indians

17. Estimate the Number of Golf balls that can fit in a School Bus

18. Estimate Airbnb's Revenue

19. Estimate the Area of India

20. Estimate the Number of Red Color Swift Cars in Delhi

21. Estimate the Number of Tennis balls you can fit in an Aircraft

22. Estimate the Total Length of Roads in your City

23. Estimate the Market Size of Disposable Diapers in India

24. Estimate the Number of Refrigerators sold in India every year

25. How much does a Salon owner make in India?

26. Estimate the Number of Self-Driving Cars

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Product Metrics 

1. How would you measure the success of Lyft Shuttle?

2. Late deliveries lead to customer churn. What data we should look at to prove this hypothesis for a food delivery app? 

3. If you were the PM for Lyft, what dashboard would you build to track the health of the app? 

4. What is the success metric for Airbnb's booking experience?

5. What would be the next big feature you would launch on Uber to improve Customer Retention and Average Spend? 

5. You are the product manager for Lyft Direct Debit Card for drivers. The product just launched. How do you build this product's first dashboard? 6. You are the PM for a certain feature. What dashboard would you build to monitor its effectiveness? What metrics would it include?

6. What metric would you track for Lyft's debit card program? 

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Product Improvement 

1. How would you improve Uber? 

2. Give an example of a badly designed product. 

3. How would you improve Uber for a football event? 

4. Design a shared carpool experience for Lyft. 

5. How would you roll out an algorithm improvement for driver matching?

6. What are the key Metrics to measure the performance of a company in food delivery business and how can we improve the ones related to churn rate?

7. What would you improve on the current Uber app? Do a deep-dive on how you would design, implement, and test your idea.

8. How could Uber integrate Eats into the core Uber app?

9. What Uber feature that's been brought to market has a lot of potential but has not achieved it yet?

10. Give an example of a badly designed product. How would you improve it?

11. How would you improve Uber for a football event?

12. How would you improve Uber for a concert/festival?

13. What are the key Metrics to measure the performance of a company in food delivery business and how can we improve the ones related to churn rate?

14. How would you improve Gmail?

15. How would you improve LinkedIn?

16. How would you improve Grammarly?

17. How would you improve Google Maps?

18. How would you improve WhatsApp?

19. How would you improve Facebook Stories?

      

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Product Launch 

1. Lyft wants to enter the Indian market. What should be the strategy?

2. Launch Uber in a new city. 

3. What factors need to be considered if you want to launch your product in a new market? 

4. Launch a new mode of transportation for Lyft.

5. If Lyft were to create an opt-in feature to increase wait times and reduce price, how would you analyze this feature and launch?

6. How would you launch Lyft in India?

7. Suppose Uber is about to launch Uber Grocery. Walk me through it from 0-1.

8. Suppose Uber decides to launch UberEats in a few new cities. How do you choose which cities to launch?

9. Build and launch Uber for Events. Focus on rides to/from large events (10,000+ attendees) and create a magical experience for riders and drivers.

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Product Strategy 

1. How would you acquire more users for Uber? 

2. How would you design surge pricing for Uber or Lyft? 

3. Should Uber Eats be a different app from Uber Rides? 

4. You own 6 pizza shops in the city and want to improve revenue. Do you develop a mobile app or use Uber Eats? 

5. Should Lyft build ride scheduling functionality? 

6. Should Lyft enter the food delivery business?

7. You are a PM at Uber. Devise strategies to improve revenue.

8. How can you increase the basket value for Uber Eats orders?

9. Define a strategy of loyalty program for Google Pay.

10. You own 6 pizza shops in the city and want to improve revenue. Do you develop a mobile app or use Uber Eats?

11. If you are CEO of Uber, what should you do next?

12. What would be the strategy to increase Uber's revenue in the taxi in the ride hailing business?

13. How will you improve the monetization strategy for Uber drivers?

14. How would you reduce operational costs for Uber Eats?

15. You have to launch an Uber Rider pass in your city. What should be the price of the pass?

16. Suppose you are the PM at Uber Eats and a recent survey results in a data that majority of users want a functionality through which they can order "X" from Restaurant A and "Y" from Restaurant B in a single order. As a PM will you implement such a functionality? If yes how will you go about it?

17. Would you start accepting cash for Uber rides in certain markets who prefer it?

18. Decide between displaying Facebook’s ‘People You May Know’ or an Advertisement?

19. Should Facebook consider getting into the Travel industry?

20. How would you launch Facebook's Dating Platform?

21. Should Facebook consolidate its messaging apps?

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Product Execution 

1. Drivers are dropping out of a city on Lyft. How do you figure out what's going on? 

2. How would reduce cancellations for Uber? 

3. If a large number of drivers are dropping out of a particular city, why would it be? 

4. There is a spike in Lyft ride cancellations this week. Why could this be the case?

5. Lyft wants to add Shared Saving rides. What factors will you consider to determine riders' willingness to pay? What experiments will you run to test your assumptions? 

6. How do you know there are enough drivers for the number of deliveries at any given time and area? 

7. You are the PM of Lyft, there is a sudden increase of users canceling the rides. How would you analyze this issue and what steps you would take to correct this? 

8. Rider cancellations have increased by 5%. Investigate what happened.

9. There is a data point that indicates that there are more Uber drop-offs at the airport than pick-ups from the airport. Why is this the case and what would you do within the product to change that?

10. Drivers are dropping out of a city on Lyft. How do you figure out what's going on?

11. If Uber Eats orders are down how will you track the root cause?

12. If a large number of drivers are dropping out of a particular city, why would it be?

13. Assume you are the product owner for Airbnb’s Mobile app and that there is a data point that indicates that there are more mobile web than mobile app users of Airbnb. Please describe why this could be the case, and describe what you would do within the product to change that. Lower fidelity mockups, where applicable, would be helpful.

14. How would you increase the average Uber driver rating in your area from its current 4.5?

15. How would you triage a 10% drop in rider cancellations?

16. As a PM of Uber, how would you solve the problem of sudden increase in demand of cabs when an event is over?

17. Uber is facing a challenge with the increase in cancelled rides especially during peak hours. As product manager, how would you solve this situation?

18. Product Execution: Decline in TikTok Usage

19. Product Execution - Decline in Flipkart's Cart Additions

20. Product Execution: Uber Product Manager Interview - Increase in Cancel Rates

21. Problem Execution - Decline in Facebook Groups Usage

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Technical 

1. Build a system to predict if something can go wrong in a cab ride. 

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