Question: Home Page Engagement Drop
Explore how to systematically diagnose a 20% drop in home page engagement by defining metrics, segmenting data, hypothesizing root causes, and validating solutions. This lesson equips you with practical skills to analyze user behavior changes and confidently present actionable insights during product management interviews.
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Interview question
Investigate a 20% drop in home page engagement.
This lesson guides you through systematically diagnosing a significant drop in home page engagement, equipping you with the skills to methodically analyze user behavior changes, identify root causes, and recommend clear, impactful solutions. By the end, you’ll demonstrate structured analytical reasoning confidently in product interviews.
Scenario overview
Imagine you’re the PM of a popular app, and your analytics team reports:
Home page engagement dropped by 20% week-over-week.
Your goal is to clearly identify the cause of this and articulate possible root causes, and propose actionable next steps.
Step-by-step framework
In an interview, the key is to stay systematic: define the metric, identify where the drop occurs, segment the impact, then test the highest-probability hypotheses first. ...