Interview Questions

Dhruv M. - "I was assigned to a project where the executive team said they wanted to "improve customer satisfaction" but provided no specific metrics, target outcomes, or scope. The initial brief was vague; they mentioned customer complaints were increasing, but hadn't quantified the problem or identified which customer segments or processes were involved. My responsibility was to lead the analysis and develop a solution; however, first, I needed to transform this ambiguous directive into a clearly defined"See full answer

Anonymous Hummingbird - "Clarifying questions: · Is there a specific scenario we are building before? Example: urgent need for a specific type of blood vs building up blood banks proactively. You decide · This would be for mobile/web and integrate into the existing facebook product? Yes Ok before we get started I wanted to discuss the facebook mission: to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. I can see how blood donation fits directly into this, enabling blood donation helps"See full answer

stash - "To answer this question I am going to first clarify the product offering and what ti does, talk about the goals for IG reels for Facebook, go through user actions and then come up with some key metrics to measure success of the product based on the goals. Product Overview IG reel allows creators to build short-form video with a bunch of different editing features and post that to their followers or to the broader IG network. It allows regular IG users to create their own content and build"See full answer

Ayinde B. - "I was working for my friend building streams at venues across the Chicago land area for FGC (fighting game tournaments), I adjusted and engineered his equipment to be set up permanently that's until covid came around at least. I used OBS to give visual appearances to stream watchers. So we're talking about subscribe, follow, and donation notifications and things of that nature for viewers to know they contributed in one of those ways. I set up proper sign-up scheduling for participants to lock t"See full answer

Umang S. - "Scenario - I had joined a product in my current company as a PM midway through its development. It is a very sensitive product with a major public services company. As the product was close to its go-live date, it had to go through many checks and many signoffs. A couple of them were through data policy department and the platform department, of which we were using all of the components for our product. We needed policy sign off to authorise the use of data to understand user interactions and"See full answer

Kunal S. - "Clarifying questions: Are there any specific constraints that you want me to take in to account when thinking through this problem : [Interviewer] No Can i think through this in freeform or is there a specific goal we are trying to achieve : [Interviewer] I will let you decide the goal Strategic Analysis: Spotifyies mission is to - "Unlock the potential of human creativity – by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the o"See full answer

Patrick B. - "Clarification I would first try to understand what FB Marketplace is since I haven't really used it more than a few times. My understanding is the following Launched 2-3 years ago in the US, it is similar to web classified services such as Craigslist The sellers are not businesses but rather individuals, primarily in local areas Broad range of products with no particular focus: ranging from electronics, furniture, used cars to even apartment for rent. Sometimes posters are willin"See full answer

Javed S. - "One good reason for using the doubly linked list is that to remove an accessed item in the list from its existing position say in the middle of the list and move it to the head, you need to update the previous node's next pointer and the next node's previous pointer. A singly linked list only has next pointers, so removing from the middle would require traversing from the head to find the previous node which requires O(n) time. A doubly linked list allows O(1) removal from any position because w"See full answer

I C. - "Clarifying questions To confirm, stories are available for 24 hrs What is the target increase for stories? Will we be applying this change globally vs. only in the close friends story view? Do we have any particular OKRs that we are trying to achieve? Mission Facebook is focused on creating and connecting communities. Instagram fits within FB's portfolio of products as it connects individuals often through a more creative and light-hearted medium"See full answer

Books' B. - "Please Review. Thanks In advance! Situation: ABC Product Planners asked me to help them to migrate their one Excel-based Macro into the web application. After having a few rounds of interviews with Product Planners, I realized that the macro was not able to solve their current problem due to its limitation and business teams were convinced that it couldn't be resolved completely. The key challenges they had with their current macro-based solutions were: It was able to compute all bui"See full answer

Aabid S. - "During the pandemic, many folks in my small town in India lost their jobs and were really struggling to make ends meet. A few of them reached out to me for financial help or help finding a job and I did my best with what limited resources I had. It was a tough situation to be in since there was only so much I could do for them. After some thinking, I realized one way that I could help them was if I could get them educational opportunities that could support them with starting a new career sinc"See full answer

D J. - "Clarifying Questions & Assumptions: Blue collar :relating to manual work or workers, particularly in industry, they usually dont have college degree Linkedin: a social network that focuses on professional networking and career development. Why is linkedin expanding to blue collar workers? Ans: to expand new market as they have great untapped potential Do you want anew app or integrate it with Linkedin? Ans: you decide I would like to look more into the problem space before deciding on tha"See full answer

Rachita D. - "Start by explaining your understanding of Google Maps. It is a free web/mobile-based feature that allows users to navigate from Point A to B, trip planning locate restaurants, hair salons, other points of interest around a point on the map Businesses use to sponsor advertisements based on Map search string. Clarify what does improvement means, "Improve" is a loaded term - what do we mean by improvement: increased ad revenue, improve the quality of the results, increase downloads, imp"See full answer

P K. - "Clarifying Questions: Assuming this will be part of FB product. Assuming this is for the US and no major constraints in terms of finances or resources. Goal: To improve user engagement Travel Personas: Solo personal Traveler Group personal Travelers Business travelers Tour operators Transportation Companies (airlines, roadways, trains etc). Choosing to focus on group travelers because most personal travelers usually travel in groups and the volume of this user base"See full answer

Astro S. - "Please provide a transcript. One grasps 150 words in a video, but can grasp 250 words when reading text."See full answer

Aabid S. - "I am the Lead PM for a product that analyzes calls made by prison inmates and looks for predictors of criminal intent. its primarily used by police investigators and the FBI. One of the main features we have in the app is Link Analysis which basically lists out all the calls an inmate has made for a specific time period. This feature was built before my time. When I joined, the first thing I did was to implement analytics in the app. Looking at our numbers, I noticed that usage was less than 1%"See full answer

Rick E. - " O(n) - characters in the string O(n) - stack def identify_adjacent(s: str, k: int) -> str: stack = [] n = len(s) for ch in s: if stack: topch, topcnt = stack[-1] if top_ch == ch: top_cnt += 1 stack[-1] = (ch, top_cnt) else: top_cnt = 1 stack.append((ch,1)) if top_cnt == k: stack.pop() else: stack.append"See full answer

Richard W. - "int getMaxWater(vector& nums) { int n = nums.size(); int mx = INT_MIN; int i=0, j=n-1; while(i<j) { int water = (j - i) * min(nums[i], nums[j]); mx = max(mx, water); if(nums[i] < nums[j]){ i++; } else { j--; } } return mx; } `"See full answer

BriskD - "I watched a couple of videos like this, one of them by Exponent staff (I think). It was disappointing that the architecture diagram and the walkthrough was a general layered architecture that you can apply to any backend system. I was wondering if there are videos that can be considered a reference material to watch, learn and improve on the tech (sys design) skills, and not so much about the soft skills."See full answer

Sam - "Disagreement --> persistent ---> more data insights ---> positive relationship ---> mentor/trust"See full answer