No. of people doing X at any given Y time of the day

No. of people cooking maggi in the evening etc. 
  
 X = cooking maggi 
 Y = evening 
  
 Was asked at a startup

Software Developer

Size of coffee market in India in early 00s, number of emails sent by avg MBB employee in a year

The email is hard to guess. Anywhere between 3-12 per day.

Founder

I mean yeah, you can never really get to the right answer, they’re simply evaluating your approach. My approach - avg time spent per mail and then using time available in a day to get the avg email sent per day, then added a few caveats here and there for brownie points

Strategy & Operations

Number of golf balls that will fit in a 747, number of elevators in USA, number of organ donors in New York.

Guesstimate the market for e cigs in India

Litres of paint required to paint a 737. Also, which company are you interviewing for?

Software Engineer

Number of laptops sold in Delhi in a Month

Corporate Strategist

Just go through any mba guesstimate playbook. Those are useless but will atleast give you fake confidence?

Length of railway tracks in India. Someone asked me this in a mock interview and to this day I am unable to find or think of an approach.

Analyst

How many flights are in the air above india at the moment

Guesstimate--Number of product design jobs in India?

Associate Product Manager

Number of red cars in your city, then next sub question number of red maruti cars in your city

Backend Engineer

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

Drop every guesstimate you got asked in an interview. PS- have an interview tomorrow, I know they will ask for guesstimates in the interview.

Drop every guesstimate you got asked in an interview. PS- have an interview tomorrow, I know they will ask for guesstimates in the interview.- Grapevine

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How to prepare for guesstimates for consulting firm interviews?
Can you share the guesstimates that you have been asked in the past? Or give examples?

Guesstimates

I am applying for new jobs. I have Masters from IIT. My current base is 19.5 

In salary discussion how much raise shall I ask for given my little experience?

Salary discussion for 1.5yrs experience

Hello 👋, next week I have an interview coming up and have been told it would be taken by a Senior Product Manager and would be asked mainly on Guesstimates and problem solving. 
any resources which can be used to prepare for this? 
I did search on YT but was wondering if i can find any tried and tested ones here.

Interview help

Senior Associate

Recruiters contact you and ask you for your current/expected salary, what is the appropriate strategy to use here?
For current:
- Be honest 
- Inflate
For expected
- Be honest 
- Inflate

Recruiters and Current salary

I got to know that budget for the role i interviewed is in range of 20-25 LPA. My last drawn salary itself is lower than the market standards. The company wouldn't give hike more than 30% considering my experience in the role domain. But I have performed well in all my interview rounds. 
Any tips from the community to negotiate for atleast the lower band of their budget?

Salary negotiation

Marketing Manager

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I know current market is not approving this but based on the skills it should be acceptable. If the current ctc would have been good then why would someone switch. Please suggest some advices to mention how to not reveal the cctc till the offer is received. Lately for scheduling interviews also companies ask for cctc and ectc before taking even a single round how to tackle all these and also can we mention more than our cctc?

How to not reveal your cctc and ask for more than 100% hike?

Software Test - QA

I have offers from X and Y companies, both are good, I really want to join X company but Y is giving more salary. How should i ask X company to revise and match or come close to the Y offer?

Request some experienced person who has who has done multiple negotiations earlier to please help A

PS: X gave the offer last month and Y gave it now

Negotiation tricks

Hello everyone,

I'm currently working as a data engineer and trying to upskill myself.
My current tech stack is python, pyspark,pandas and SQL.
Use s3 for storage and Apache airflow for jobs.
I have a few questions regarding the same and would like to know from an experienced person.

Thanks

Any Data engineers here? Need some suggestions

Data engineer

I recently interviewed at a large company. I applied by sending my resume to someone in my network who works there and they forwarded the resume to HR. After that I got a call from HR and they asked for my expected salary among other things to which I answered that I want a 40% hike. I cleared all technical interviews and after that I got a mail saying that they would like to offer me a full time role and asked some of my documents to prepare an offer. I was curious about them asking for documents without having an HR round first so I called the HR and asked some details about the job and she ensured that they can give me a 40% hike on base but not on TC so I assumed they will hike my base and keep the other components in a similar range to what I currently have. I send the documents and on the next day I get a call from HR asking about my expected compensation again, I then ask about their salary structure and they explain that it's all fixed. I was confused on what number to give them so I said that I wanted a 40% hike but since my TC consists of variable components and theirs don't, I would like to know what is the maximum salary they could give me to which the HR replied that they will let me know in a while. It's been more than 24 hours and I haven't heard back. I don't want to call the HR because that might make me look desperate and give them a reason to lowball me but I'm not sure what to do and am even more confused about what kind of process is being followed at this company.

What kind of a hiring process is this? Need advice

Hi everyone, I'm looking to switch jobs for a better pay as my current CTC is 4.06 LPA which doesn't suffice me at all. Also,  I have got many calls for interviews but out of them only 6 interviews got arranged and in those interviews as well I am unable to ace them at all. I'm trying to apply for a Java Full Stack developer. I need suggestions as to where I should concentrate and how I should prepare myself. In the last few interviews that I gave, the interviewers asked questions about creating small programs and they didn't ask anything about my current and previous projects that I worked on. I need some suggestions as to what I can do here in this case. Also, how much salary can I expect for a switch if I have to answer for an expected salary. 
Thanks.

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