Uber·Product Manager·Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy
- Design a free product. How would you monetize it?
“I spent way too long on the design part and rushed the monetization angle, which is obviously the whole point of the question.”
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609 interview notes · updated Aug 2026
“I spent way too long on the design part and rushed the monetization angle, which is obviously the whole point of the question.”
“The multi-part structure threw me a bit.”
“I got the basic class working fine.”
“The interviewer was visibly exhausted, which made the whole thing feel a bit flat.”
“My first instinct was to check every pair of points, which is obviously too slow but I coded it halfway anyway before catching myself.”
“I started with the cart and item models which felt safe, but then the pricing piece got messy fast.”
“I started with the recursive DFS approach because that's what everyone knows, O(N) time, O(H) space for the call stack.”
“I started with the naive approach of searching each word independently using DFS and backtracking.”
“Seen this one before on prep forums so I wasn't totally blindsided.”
“This one took me a minute to even parse.”