Metrics question
How would you increase customer lifetime value for Swiggy?
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What this question tests
Understanding of lifetime value drivers in a food delivery marketplace and how to move them with product changes.
How to approach it
- Break CLV into its drivers: order frequency, average order value, and customer lifespan before churning.
- Identify the biggest lever for a food delivery app, likely order frequency, since AOV and lifespan are harder to move quickly.
- Propose increasing frequency through personalized recommendations and habit forming triggers like weekly reorder prompts.
- Propose increasing AOV through smart upsells at checkout, such as add a drink or dessert suggestions.
- Propose extending lifespan through a loyalty program with tiered benefits for repeat customers.
- Define success as a blended CLV metric tracked over a rolling 6 month cohort, with frequency as the primary driver watched.
What a strong answer includes
- Explicitly decomposes CLV into frequency, AOV, and lifespan rather than proposing generic 'engagement' ideas.
- Prioritizes frequency as the fastest lever, with a clear rationale that reorder habits compound value quickly.
- Gives an illustrative number, e.g. assumes moving average orders per month from 4 to 5 lifts CLV by 20 percent.
- Proposes a loyalty program with concrete tiers rather than a vague 'reward loyal customers' statement.
Common mistakes
- Treating CLV as one undifferentiated number instead of breaking it into frequency, AOV, and lifespan.
- Proposing only discounts, which can increase frequency short term but erode margin and long term value.
- No cohort based way to measure whether CLV actually improved over time.
Likely follow-up questions
- Which lever, frequency, AOV or lifespan, would you prioritize and why?
- How would discounts affect margin even if CLV rises?
- How would you measure this over a 6 to 12 month cohort?
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Chapters of the AI PM course that teach what this question tests.
- Chapter 9: Prove it paid off: outcomes, economics, and pricing
- Chapter 2: Data fluency: SQL, logs, and reading the truth yourself
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