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    Software Engineer
    System Design
  • Product Manager
    Analytical
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    "I think rapport with the team is key to deciding what one of these members can do that would bring more development capability to him, the team and the project. Analyzing the skill and attitude of my team members in advance and putting them in the role where they are strongest and happiest has been an important factor in my success stories. Taking care to identify a potential leader in the team will make it evolve faster as well. So this is how I make decisions when forming a squad for a spec"

    Sueudo G. - "I think rapport with the team is key to deciding what one of these members can do that would bring more development capability to him, the team and the project. Analyzing the skill and attitude of my team members in advance and putting them in the role where they are strongest and happiest has been an important factor in my success stories. Taking care to identify a potential leader in the team will make it evolve faster as well. So this is how I make decisions when forming a squad for a spec"See full answer

    Solutions Architect
    Behavioral
  • "What do all data scientists need to know about how to work with very large datasets? 37 Follow Request Answer More All related (39) Recommended 📷 Corrin Lakeland · Follow , M.S. Data Science, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul (2018)6yData Science consultant and managerUpvoted by[Tom Halloin](https://www.quora"

    Hayatu H. - "What do all data scientists need to know about how to work with very large datasets? 37 Follow Request Answer More All related (39) Recommended 📷 Corrin Lakeland · Follow , M.S. Data Science, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul (2018)6yData Science consultant and managerUpvoted by[Tom Halloin](https://www.quora"See full answer

    Data Engineer
    Data Modeling
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    "Which one I critical, is the erratic change in the delivery cycle is one you need to investigate and further deep dive into to find the root cause"

    Vijay S. - "Which one I critical, is the erratic change in the delivery cycle is one you need to investigate and further deep dive into to find the root cause"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Program Sense
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    "Was the statement very similar to the leetcode or was it changed and only the main idea remained?"

    Anonymous Wombat - "Was the statement very similar to the leetcode or was it changed and only the main idea remained?"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Data Structures & Algorithms
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  • Technical Program Manager
    Behavioral
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    Video answer for 'How do you consider the impact of your work on the world?'
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    "this is not a helpful interview, she seems so unprepared, confusing, unable to netting it out :("

    Anonymous Giraffe - "this is not a helpful interview, she seems so unprepared, confusing, unable to netting it out :("See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
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    "It is very easy to shy away and not make a decision because you might feel the right information is not there to make a decision While dealing with ambiguity it is essential to remain Calm. And Establish what it is you want to achieve by asking a lot of questions to the necessary stakeholders Access the risk, analyze the data at hand, ask the right questions, and be very clear and concise in decision-making"

    Satish murthy D. - "It is very easy to shy away and not make a decision because you might feel the right information is not there to make a decision While dealing with ambiguity it is essential to remain Calm. And Establish what it is you want to achieve by asking a lot of questions to the necessary stakeholders Access the risk, analyze the data at hand, ask the right questions, and be very clear and concise in decision-making"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
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    "During my internship at Datavibe Insights, I was initially brought on to assist with routine data cleaning and Excel reporting for the procurement team. My main task was to support weekly report generation, but I noticed inefficiencies in how data from multiple vendors was being manually compiled and formatted each week. Without being asked, I took the initiative to build an automated reporting tool using Excel Power Query and macros. It cleaned, merged, and visualized the data with a few clicks"

    Dhruv M. - "During my internship at Datavibe Insights, I was initially brought on to assist with routine data cleaning and Excel reporting for the procurement team. My main task was to support weekly report generation, but I noticed inefficiencies in how data from multiple vendors was being manually compiled and formatted each week. Without being asked, I took the initiative to build an automated reporting tool using Excel Power Query and macros. It cleaned, merged, and visualized the data with a few clicks"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Behavioral
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    "Had to refactor code at recent startup after having it fully deployed and working. This was due to us hitting some performance and UX issues. What I did was refactor the core engine first myself, and then line up a work team to progressively refactor the edges and exception flows that sit around the core. Completed in 4 weeks."

    Kirit K. - "Had to refactor code at recent startup after having it fully deployed and working. This was due to us hitting some performance and UX issues. What I did was refactor the core engine first myself, and then line up a work team to progressively refactor the edges and exception flows that sit around the core. Completed in 4 weeks."See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
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    "I faced a problem about components re-rendering's and unnecessary requests API's which was causing performance complications in my applicactions. I had a structure that create, edit and delete task, so GET, POST, PUT and DELETE API's methods request was necessary and bring that to compliance without compromissing the performance is hard. I started involving componentes and async functions into the useMemo's and useEffect's to have more control, another improvement was take be careful with global"

    Rolemberg J. - "I faced a problem about components re-rendering's and unnecessary requests API's which was causing performance complications in my applicactions. I had a structure that create, edit and delete task, so GET, POST, PUT and DELETE API's methods request was necessary and bring that to compliance without compromissing the performance is hard. I started involving componentes and async functions into the useMemo's and useEffect's to have more control, another improvement was take be careful with global"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Technical
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    "Functional Requirement Monitor health, metrics Alert in case of failure/anomaly Visualize the live health Analyse machines on periodic basis Non Functional Should not exert load on machines low latency Highly scalable Logs/Metrics Gathering push - machine gather and send to system and low priority background thread along with batching pull - heart beat check (for offline machines) Processing Real time streaming using Kafka/kinesis + Flink TimeSeries database for stor"

    Sourabh G. - "Functional Requirement Monitor health, metrics Alert in case of failure/anomaly Visualize the live health Analyse machines on periodic basis Non Functional Should not exert load on machines low latency Highly scalable Logs/Metrics Gathering push - machine gather and send to system and low priority background thread along with batching pull - heart beat check (for offline machines) Processing Real time streaming using Kafka/kinesis + Flink TimeSeries database for stor"See full answer

    Engineering Manager
    System Design
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    " I will attempt to answer this. Barnes and Nobles Nook, although Amazon had an advantage in terms of being early to market (2007) with the Kindle, B&N Nook could have been marketed Nook more creatively, given that B&N has access to massive inventories of books in digital format. It fell short of: Focusing on the differentiation in marketing Being aggressive in marketing tactics by promoting the Nook at events, webinars, out-of-store marketing Attracting the user base by highlighting the m"

    Anuradha T. - " I will attempt to answer this. Barnes and Nobles Nook, although Amazon had an advantage in terms of being early to market (2007) with the Kindle, B&N Nook could have been marketed Nook more creatively, given that B&N has access to massive inventories of books in digital format. It fell short of: Focusing on the differentiation in marketing Being aggressive in marketing tactics by promoting the Nook at events, webinars, out-of-store marketing Attracting the user base by highlighting the m"See full answer

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    "Follow STAR Example: In my most recent role at x, we've been working every quarter to set our quarterly goals or even decide for the year but given in 2022 we've been through a great resignation phase there was a high attrition because of which we have overloaded engineering teams. During last quarterly planning, I started to question with my manager about giving a focus to our engineering, so we complete one thing absolutely fine which is more impactful for our customers and add immediate val"

    Ash I. - "Follow STAR Example: In my most recent role at x, we've been working every quarter to set our quarterly goals or even decide for the year but given in 2022 we've been through a great resignation phase there was a high attrition because of which we have overloaded engineering teams. During last quarterly planning, I started to question with my manager about giving a focus to our engineering, so we complete one thing absolutely fine which is more impactful for our customers and add immediate val"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
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    Behavioral
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    "Our team were developing a HQ trivia for fitness. So at that moment our focus was developing an eye-catching animation for both iOS and Android. By the way, implementing an animation were hard without the progress of it. So we wanted to see an immediate progress. So I decided to use tools or libraries such as Lottie or Kite. Then it increased the quality and the productivity dramatically. So our designer were happy with it and also our dev team could reuse the code from the designed animation fr"

    Woongshik C. - "Our team were developing a HQ trivia for fitness. So at that moment our focus was developing an eye-catching animation for both iOS and Android. By the way, implementing an animation were hard without the progress of it. So we wanted to see an immediate progress. So I decided to use tools or libraries such as Lottie or Kite. Then it increased the quality and the productivity dramatically. So our designer were happy with it and also our dev team could reuse the code from the designed animation fr"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Behavioral
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  • "MOD = 10**9 + 7 def max_stability(reliability, availability): max_stability = 1 for r, a in zip(reliability, availability): Compute stability of the current server stability = r * a if stability != 0: Multiply into max_stability and take modulo maxstability = (maxstability * stability) % MOD return max_stability reliability = [1, 2, 2] availability = [1, 1, 3] print(max_stability(reliability, availability)) # Output the result mo"

    K.nithish K. - "MOD = 10**9 + 7 def max_stability(reliability, availability): max_stability = 1 for r, a in zip(reliability, availability): Compute stability of the current server stability = r * a if stability != 0: Multiply into max_stability and take modulo maxstability = (maxstability * stability) % MOD return max_stability reliability = [1, 2, 2] availability = [1, 1, 3] print(max_stability(reliability, availability)) # Output the result mo"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Coding
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