SqueakyUnicorn

Student

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

20mo ago

Talking product sense with Ridhi

9 min AI interview5 questions

MagicalQuokka

Stealth20mo

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

SqueakyUnicorn

Student20mo

Ye kya h bc

MagicalQuokka

Stealth20mo

No. of people cooking maggi in the evening etc.

X = cooking maggi Y = evening

Was asked at a startup

WobblyBurrito

Stealth20mo

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

GroovyBoba

X (formerly Twitter)20mo

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

WobblyBurrito

Stealth20mo

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

JazzyBurrito

Stealth20mo

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

GroovyBurrito

Arthur D. Little20mo

Guesstimate the market for e cigs in India

SqueakyUnicorn

Student20mo

Thanks. Which company?

PerkyPickle

Stealth20mo

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

CosmicQuokka

Paralleldots20mo

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

WobblyRaccoon

Hexagon20mo

Guesstimate--Number of product design jobs in India?

SqueakyMuffin

Zomato20mo

Number of cows in Delhi

PerkyKoala

Credit Suisse Group20mo

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.

GroovyBoba

X (formerly Twitter)20mo

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

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