Apple Product Manager Interview - Flawless Interview Answer by Expert PM: Algorithm Design
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- čas přidán 28. 06. 2024
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As you watch this video, pay close attention to how the senior PM uses a structured, methodical approach to find the north-star metric for her algorithm. She brainstorms a dozen positive and negative input features for the algorithm and adds her own unique twist on the algorithm to achieve business goals.
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Chapters -
0:00 Introduction
0:57 The interviewer introduces the question: Design the algorithm to recommend videos on Disney+
1:12 - Mika establishes a framework and checks in with the interviewer to see if she is on the right path
1:52 - Take a minute and pause to think about how to respond to this question as Mika does.
2:08 - Mika defines algorithmic goals, how to achieve it, and proxy metric.
3:00 - Interview panel analyses Mika’s response. She uses a chart to structure her response and make it easier to understand, something the average candidate may not consider.
4:09 - Mika continues her response, filling up the rest of her table.
6:00- Mika prioritizes one goal. Notice how she makes the distinction between short term and long term prioritization, chooses one of these, and explains why, making her answer more reasonable and powerful.
6:27 - Interview panel explains how Mika’s choice to dive deeper into the tensions between long-term and short-term thinking makes her stand out.
7:39 - Take a minute and pause to think about inputs and outputs as Mika does.
7:53 - Mika ideates inputs for her ranking algorithm. Notice how she refers to both positive and negative signals, indicating to the interviewer that her analysis is balanced and well-reasoned.
11:09 - Interview panel explains how Mika did a great job of sharing all her ideas proactively and paying attention to negative signals.
12:31 - Mika establishes the machine learning technique for her algorithm.
13:41 - Interview panel describes how Mika showed her deep understanding of technical concepts by explaining collaborative filtering.
14:30 - Mika walks through her algorithm modifications. Notice how in doing so she uses examples and her understanding of the flywheel concept to make her response more powerful.
17:15 - Interview panel analyzes Mika’s strong response, integrating business needs.
18:44 - Mika summarizes her findings
20:10 - Mika brainstorms which metrics she would override the ML model for.
22:10 - Mika discusses what she could have done better in her response.
23:32 - Interview panel gives an overall analysis of Mika’s response
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The whiteboarding you guys show is super helpful. As a visual learner, I sincerely appreciate the time and effort you guys put into your videos :)
Finally! Some is actually creating PM interview content for my dream company 😍
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Loved the goals/behaviors/proxy metric framework. Definitely stealing that!
We have a lot more awesome frameworks in our Flagship Apple PM Interview course if you are interested www.productalliance.com/courses/flagship-apple-pm-interview-course
Just bought your full Apple PM interview course. Hope the rest of your content is as good as your CZcams videos!
Hi Fortlex, hope you are enjoying the course! If you have any feedback on how we can make the course even better, please don't hesitate to reach out to us :)
just bought your full apple PM interview course. hope the rest of your content is as good as your youtube videos!
love your content. keep it coming
awesome mock, thanks for sharing :)
Very insight!
good job
How would this interview + the questions be different if the role was for a PM undergraduate internship?
what sort of questions should i expect to get asked for an interview with the Apple Pay team?
I'm a senior software engineer and I loved watching this.
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