Metrics question

What are the top 3 metrics you would track for Quora?

Practice this question out loud. An AI interviewer asks it, follows up like a real interviewer would, and scores your answer. Type or speak.

What this question tests

Whether you can select metrics that reflect a Q&A platform's core value, content quality and knowledge exchange.

Clarify the business goal being measured, likely growing engaged users who both ask and answer questions.
Prioritize a content quality metric, like percent of questions receiving a high-quality answer within a set time, since that's the platform's core promise.
Track a contributor health metric, like active answerer retention, since content supply depends on repeat contributors, not just askers.
Track a satisfaction metric, like upvote ratio or answer helpfulness rating, to confirm quality is being maintained, not just volume.
Explain why each metric was chosen relative to Quora's specific value proposition, knowledge sharing, not generic engagement.
Note a guardrail to consider, like spam or low-quality answer rate, that would undercut the primary metrics if ignored.

Chooses metrics tied specifically to Quora's core value, quality answers, rather than generic engagement metrics like DAU.
Includes a contributor-side metric, answerer retention, recognizing content supply is the platform's real bottleneck.
Explains the reasoning behind each metric choice relative to the product's actual value proposition.
Flags spam or low-quality answer rate as an implicit guardrail worth watching alongside the top 3.

Picking generic metrics like DAU or session time that don't reflect Quora's specific value, quality knowledge sharing.
Ignoring the contributor side entirely and only measuring metrics about people asking questions.

How would you measure answer quality at scale without manual review of every answer?
Which of these 3 metrics would you prioritize if you could only track one?