Clarify scope and align to mission
Overview
This question evaluates a data scientist's product sense, leadership and stakeholder-alignment skills, including scope clarification, mission translation, metric definition, and collaborative communication.
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Oct 13, 2025, 9:49 PM
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Clarify and Align: New Google Maps Feature to Boost Group Page Engagement
Context (Completed)
Assume "Group pages" are shared spaces in Google Maps where members can collaboratively save places, build lists, react/vote, and coordinate outings (e.g., friends planning dinner, a hiking club organizing weekend trips). The PM asks for a plan to boost engagement on these pages.
Tasks
- Restate the product in your own words and propose explicit in-scope vs. out-of-scope.
- Clarify primary users and use cases (individuals vs. small businesses vs. advertisers; private vs. public; view vs. create). Pick exactly one segment to focus on and justify.
- Translate the mission ("organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful") into a measurable goal and non-goals for this feature.
- Propose success metrics and guardrails.
- Outline a 60-minute stakeholder conversation plan that keeps the interview collaborative: what you’ll ask, what you’ll show, how you’ll summarize and get sign-off.
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