I have had repeated experiences where interviewers tend to ask questions very specific to their day to day work. They mentioned during the interview that their team is currently working on this particular problem. Example - Google recently monetized their maps. Now we are trying to get in touch with local businesses through emails to advertise themselves on maps and creating an email draft for it. How would you determine the title of the email? This is very close to my actual interview question. What's the best strategy to deal with such questions? I raised this to the recruiter after the phone screen and he mentioned the interviewers should not ask such specific questions but it repeated during onsite. Same experience with FB.
1. What is the actual problem they are trying to solve. 2. What do they consider success? In email case you mentioned, it means most users respond to the email to sign up for ad 3. Pick a solution to the problem. 4. Implement measurement and track your solution. 5. Tweak your solution based on your measurement until you find best results
Very helpful, thanks. Any resources to study/practice this framework?