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Interview Question
Interview(Student Candidate)
If you woke up and had 2,000 unread emails and could only
answer 300 of them how would you choose which ones to answer?
Interview Answer
78 Answers
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The automated pre-filtering I have setup should group the most
important ones into key folders and then I just scan through the sender
names and subject lines for the most critical ones first.
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High importance, then filter by subject and get rid of threads except
most recent, filter by sender for VIPs, then oldest to newest
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jjfg jjkbb
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In Order Received
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Filter the junk, avoid the toxic people and focus on my priorities for the day.
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Make it so I have access to all 1000 emails, not just 300.
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Depends on my role and what else I have to do that day
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it depends if all 2000 of them require an answer. assuming all of them
do, I would start from the last one from a known source. Usually the
last ones show a string of emails from an early conversation. that might
trim quite a few.
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I'd start by getting off of unnecessary mailing lists because no one
receives 2000 messages in a day and doesn't receive another 2000 again
the next.
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I would delete all 2000 of them and then move on to something important.
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That's easy, the ones from my boss.
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My boss, then the emails that are most impactful to the company's bottom line.
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My boss, then the emails that are most impactful to the company's bottom line.
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Will read most recent 300 from senders I recognize and feel like responding
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Send the 2000 e-mails back to the corporate idiots who have nothing else to do but send e-mails all day to prove their worth.
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Ignore them all and reply to the first 300 people that come to my office or call me and ask "Did you see my email?"
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I'd do to my computer what Elvis did to his TV.
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Uu
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Read all of them to see which 300 I can answer
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Order of precedence: VIPs Time/goal critical Pre-existing threads and shortest answers
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Delete my entire inbox and claim "There must be an issue with the
server*" (I usually like saying mainframe here, because Hollywood.)
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I would open NONE of them as they are clearly spam.
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Delete them all and set auto-reply to say "For those that know my phone number, call me if it's important".
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Write a filter to throw out the spam from Glassdoor.com
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The ones with nude photos of girls
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So the question says that you could only answer 300 but it doesn't say
that you could only read 300. So, I'd go though all 2000 and answer the
ones that need my input to proceed with a task.
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Start with the folder where my pre-set filters place the emails that
are sent directly to me and only to prioritizing based off sender.
Starting with co-workers I am currently working with on an active
project, followed by my boss; bottom line comes first. Then, using the
same sender priorities, move on to messages addressed directly to myself
and others as well. If it does not fit into one of those two queries
then 90% of the time my work hours are better spent elsewhere so
everything left would get moved into my "clutter" folder, to clean up my
inbox, where they will be deleted the next day if I do not receive any
follow ups about them.
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Well I think this is a pretty easy answer because it didn't say how
many you can read, it only says how many to answer. Also can you take
one email to reply to multiple unread emails? Like if 5 people had the
same question to you.
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Throw out about 1882, because they would be junk, send 92 to the proper
departments, answer the other 26 accurately, and spend my free time
working on the big project due in 2 days!
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So... if I already have 2000 unread emails in my personal account, what does that say about my personal life vs work life?
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The question does not say you cannot read all the emails. You can just
answer to 300 of them. I would check them all and then pick 300 the most
important ones.
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I would first group them according to sender and delete all except most
recent ones, then reply to top 300 key (professionally and personal)
saying 'I have had some serious email issues - please resend anything
important' and the I would delete the lot. My ambition is to have an
empty inbox by EOB each day.
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Am I going to be expecting 2000 emails a day? Are you expecting me to
deal with 300 a day? What about the backlog? This job isn't for me
thanks
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When I receive 2000 emails in a day, it's usually a worm virus or an
abuse of "reply to all" that one of my colleagues did by mistake
creating huge number of spam. So I will delete the additional 1700 mails
that this mistake has created and focus on the 300 mails I usually get
every day. For those I will apply my usual rules: customer requests
first, important personal deadlines second, urgent requests from my boss
third and everything else comes next.
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I would click on the Select All tool, then scan the whole list to see
what I recognize and know needs responding to, deselect those, then
delete all the rest.
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I would answer the 300 from senders who I could impact, had impact on me and/or I proactively generated.
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No
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Alphabetically, based on sender email address.
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I use filters. read the important ones.
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Ones related to work, family, and bills.
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Important ones will be answered , other ones will be either ignored or gone to the trash!
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Good question actually. Batman is a tactician and is always measuring
and calculating his battlefield. Spiderman is a risk taker that can
actually pull off the unforeseen. Both are tenacious but Batman has far
more years of experience on his side... Spiderman is still just a kid.
Also Batman HAS taken down Superman so I would put my money on Batman.
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The ones from Catwoman, who won the fight between spiderman and batman.
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I’d never get that many so, I would know right away, some entity has
gotten into my email account and caused problems. But, since I am on a
Mac and have filters set up and restrict my personal and business email
to those purposes (and humans only) and use a third, fourth, and fifth
series of accounts for almost all other uses, to avoid junk email - it
would just not happen. Indeed, in 14 years of using email, it never has.
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Simply arrange by Sender's name. Look if there is any from my RM. Then
look for the one from clients. And if these two take up the whole of 300
then I am done for the day. If not then rearrange again with
Importance.
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Sort on sender and then date to limit the number of emails you will
read. You know your most important senders and can assume that the most
recent time times are most relevant.
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filter by the VVIPs followed by VIPS and commoners
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1. Set an autoresponse telling people how to escalate their needs if I
don't get to them. 2. Add a filter to file all e-mails i have been CC'ed
orBCC'ed 3. Sort by thread and file all but the most recent e-mails in
the thread 4. Search the body of the e-mail for my name. 5. Address only
the ones sent directly to me or reference me in the e-mail.
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I would select the mails which contain "unsubscribe", move them to another folder and read the rest.
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First filter to only show the emails of priority contacts (currently my
boss, wife and mom). Handle those. Ensure conversation threading is
enabled, If required migrate the email to a client that supports that.
Then, after the priority email has been handled, process from most
current email to last.
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I'd answer only 250 & use the remaining time to prioritise which 250
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eenie meenie miney mo!!
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Most important correspondence come thru 'snail mail'. My yahoo mail box
was hacked several times and I've lost all mail- absolutely nothing
horrible have happened.
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I would sort by : Customers My boss My bosses boss My trusted advisors
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I'm my experience, 20% of emails received require immediate action on
my part, 30% are directed at me but don't require imediate action and
the rest are FYI's. I would go through the emails directed at me first
(where my name is not on the cc line) and determine which need imediate
action, flag them accordingly and then get to it.
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Based on priority. Addressed to me. Look at emails where my name is in To:
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I would segregate them as: 1. From my immediate boss 2. High Important 3. Followup marked 4. Chain mails
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Delete any with the subject line that reads Urgent. That will probably take me down to 300.
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Reply to all, "My mailbox has been corrupted, please email me if your item needs attention today", then filter accordingly.
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Choose the ones first from my boss. Then go through subjects to sort out priority.
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Would quickly scan the last hundred, concentrate on priorities of the
day and wait until i receive reminders for the really urgent and
unsolved issues
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I'd hit delete on all 300. Anyone who wakes up to that many emails needs to find a new outlook on life.
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I think the question is more , how can you consider that i have time
for 300 emails only ? is there an average time by email ? The most
important emails are the customers one , specially the one in priority.
customer first ! For emergencies, my boss can join me also on the phone.
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I would review the stack and respond to the most important.
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First, I answer my job related questions, Then people who want to gain knowledge from me, Finally I reply my friends
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First I would be amazed at my ability to answer 300 of them (assuming
you are talking about doing this in a day). Second I would answer the
300 most recent ones. I find that if people really have something they
want they will email you again.
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i would pick the ones that are the most important
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I would first answer the mails with RE: in title. They're most waiting
for a reply, probably. Then, filter and answer mails from known sources.
Then sort by dateTime and answer rest (300- 'already answered') of last
mails..
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Order of priority: 1.Addressed to me from boss 2. Copied to me by boss 3. Addressed to me 4. CCd to me
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Filter if any of them were from you (interviewer) and answer them first.
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I'd hire my secretary and do other important stuff stuffs.
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1st - 300th (priority)
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Filtering by sender, then by subject
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automated pre-filtering to group the most important ones into key
folders and have a quick look through for any other most important ones
and then delegate the rest to a wonderful secretary or PA to sort
through and send to the most relevant departments and personnel so that
they could be dealt with in a timely and efficient fashion as well.
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I would talk with my team to first see if they were able to address any
of them, then move through the highest priority ones first. But at the
end of that day, all emails should be looked at.
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First I am delete unnecessary email Then after I am Search my work
related important mail and then see other email if my email capacity not
over
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Shift, Control, Alt and Delete.
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