Whatnot · Product & Business Case
Improve and debug the shopping app
TrueInterview
October 7, 2026 · 1 min read
You are evaluating a live-shopping mobile app from a product-minded engineering viewpoint. Respond to the following as one connected exercise:
- How would you assess the app experience, and what improvements would you propose?
- How would you identify product categories that are underperforming?
- Suppose the team suspects a bug is hurting category performance or user experience. How would you debug it? Your answer should explain how you would combine direct hands-on use of the app, product intuition, metrics, dashboards, logs, funnels, segmentation, and hypothesis-driven investigation. Overview: This question tests product-minded engineering skills including product intuition, user-experience assessment, telemetry-driven diagnostics, funnel and segmentation analysis, and debugging/observability abilities relevant to a machine learning engineer. Read the full machine learning engineer interview experience this question came from
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