Interview Questions

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  • Stripe logoAsked at Stripe 
    Video answer for 'How do you coach and develop your engineering team?'
    +9

    "Too much talk nothing concrete to know about the person that I am interviewing."

    Vikas T. - "Too much talk nothing concrete to know about the person that I am interviewing."See full answer

    Engineering Manager
    Behavioral
  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    Video answer for 'How does Google Docs work?'
    +5

    "Where is the second part of the video?"

    Soledad A. - "Where is the second part of the video?"See full answer

    Technical
  • +4

    "First I will set up the formula, second I will calculate each of the components then adding them up. Finally, I will talk about corner cases if any. 1, To begin with, I want to think broadly what could go into the equation. Bandwidth depends on number of devices at a time, so if a student use both laptop and phone at the same time then we have 2. Beside, grad students need internet for various reasons, such as checking email, searching on Google for information, watching lectures... Different a"

    Darren L. - "First I will set up the formula, second I will calculate each of the components then adding them up. Finally, I will talk about corner cases if any. 1, To begin with, I want to think broadly what could go into the equation. Bandwidth depends on number of devices at a time, so if a student use both laptop and phone at the same time then we have 2. Beside, grad students need internet for various reasons, such as checking email, searching on Google for information, watching lectures... Different a"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Estimation
  • Meta (Facebook) logoAsked at Meta (Facebook) 
    Video answer for 'Design a smart lock.'
    +1

    "Smart Lock : Clarifying Questions : Are* we *talking about the locks we use for the doors or locks used for suitcases or study lockers ? "Scope is yours" What do we need by smart ? Are we a company that are already in lock business? - Yes Do we have significant marketshare in lock business ? - Yes Are we trying to address or improve any customer pain point or improve our metric? - "No" Customer Segment : Tech savvy - non tech savvy- Customer buys Old"

    Hari priya K. - "Smart Lock : Clarifying Questions : Are* we *talking about the locks we use for the doors or locks used for suitcases or study lockers ? "Scope is yours" What do we need by smart ? Are we a company that are already in lock business? - Yes Do we have significant marketshare in lock business ? - Yes Are we trying to address or improve any customer pain point or improve our metric? - "No" Customer Segment : Tech savvy - non tech savvy- Customer buys Old"See full answer

    Product Designer
    Product Design
  • +9

    "Would be better to adjust resolution in the video player directly."

    Anonymous Prawn - "Would be better to adjust resolution in the video player directly."See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Data Structures & Algorithms
    +4 more
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  • +1

    "How about this one... Situation: In my previous Organization, I was PM of Financial services- Business Loans. I was building the user journey and end to end process. We were in middle of development and I got one more product to work on - BNPL (Buy Now Pay Later). Tasks: I was asked to provide the roadmap , rough wireframes, guess estimates (No of engineers required) and by when we can ship the MVP. Need not to mention but as startups always have resource constrains and tight deadli"

    Veronica S. - "How about this one... Situation: In my previous Organization, I was PM of Financial services- Business Loans. I was building the user journey and end to end process. We were in middle of development and I got one more product to work on - BNPL (Buy Now Pay Later). Tasks: I was asked to provide the roadmap , rough wireframes, guess estimates (No of engineers required) and by when we can ship the MVP. Need not to mention but as startups always have resource constrains and tight deadli"See full answer

    Behavioral
  • "I'd approach this first with a clarifying questions geared towards fraud prevention as these are going to be important to actually finding a root solution. I'd want to take cues from the interviewer in order to then identify potential hypotheses. Clarifying questions: How is fraud calculated? It's important to clarify the metric used to know that fraud is increasing. For example, is this a percent of all customers or transactions? Is the fraud that the merchant reported confirmed fraud"

    Michelle D. - "I'd approach this first with a clarifying questions geared towards fraud prevention as these are going to be important to actually finding a root solution. I'd want to take cues from the interviewer in order to then identify potential hypotheses. Clarifying questions: How is fraud calculated? It's important to clarify the metric used to know that fraud is increasing. For example, is this a percent of all customers or transactions? Is the fraud that the merchant reported confirmed fraud"See full answer

    Execution
    Analytical
  • OpenAI logoAsked at OpenAI 
    Video answer for 'How is gradient descent and model optimization used in linear regression?'

    "Gradient Descent is an optimisation strategy used in several supervised learning models. It is the technique for finding the optimum solution of an objective function. Typically, for a linear regression use case, it is used to find the weights and bias that produce the lowest loss. It involves computing the partial derivative of the objective function with respect to the weight and bias vectors. To find the optima of the function, the derivative is equated to 0, and iteratively the weight and b"

    Megha V. - "Gradient Descent is an optimisation strategy used in several supervised learning models. It is the technique for finding the optimum solution of an objective function. Typically, for a linear regression use case, it is used to find the weights and bias that produce the lowest loss. It involves computing the partial derivative of the objective function with respect to the weight and bias vectors. To find the optima of the function, the derivative is equated to 0, and iteratively the weight and b"See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Concept
    +1 more
  • +25

    "To clarify the question, we need to know What portion of “food” are we discussing? All groceries, cold ready-to-heat meals, meal kits, hot meals, or something else? Finding “something else” presents the opportunity to invent a new sector of the business that leverages Amazon’s unique strengths. That’s more likely to be a winner idea, from Amazon’s perspective and the interviewer’s opinion of you, than copying some other company’s existing approach. But it’s also possible the interviewer has a"

    Jonathan S. - "To clarify the question, we need to know What portion of “food” are we discussing? All groceries, cold ready-to-heat meals, meal kits, hot meals, or something else? Finding “something else” presents the opportunity to invent a new sector of the business that leverages Amazon’s unique strengths. That’s more likely to be a winner idea, from Amazon’s perspective and the interviewer’s opinion of you, than copying some other company’s existing approach. But it’s also possible the interviewer has a"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Strategy
    +1 more
  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    Video answer for 'Design an app for an amusement park.'
    +28

    "Clarifying questions (since there is no interviewer to clarify, I will state and make my assumptions below): Is this an app for park-goers, Six Flags employees, or some other stakeholder? Assumption: this is an app for park-goers Is there an age-limit on the app? Assumption: There is no specific age-limit, but it should be family friendly Will this app be standardized across all Six Flags locations? Assumption: yes To design this product, I will explain my thought proces"

    Izzy K. - "Clarifying questions (since there is no interviewer to clarify, I will state and make my assumptions below): Is this an app for park-goers, Six Flags employees, or some other stakeholder? Assumption: this is an app for park-goers Is there an age-limit on the app? Assumption: There is no specific age-limit, but it should be family friendly Will this app be standardized across all Six Flags locations? Assumption: yes To design this product, I will explain my thought proces"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • +8

    "Credibility is very important for success of any team. And it is something that takes time to build, but if i am inheriting a team that i did not build, i would spend dedicated time to understand team structure, dynamics and skill levels for every team member. Domain knowledge and experience are other important factors i would learn about each team member. In regular meetings i would introduce the culture of openness and respect where team members feel free to bring in ideas and constructive fee"

    Kanwarpreet S. - "Credibility is very important for success of any team. And it is something that takes time to build, but if i am inheriting a team that i did not build, i would spend dedicated time to understand team structure, dynamics and skill levels for every team member. Domain knowledge and experience are other important factors i would learn about each team member. In regular meetings i would introduce the culture of openness and respect where team members feel free to bring in ideas and constructive fee"See full answer

    Engineering Manager
    Behavioral
  • Booking.com logoAsked at Booking.com 
    Video answer for 'Design a metrics and logging service.'

    "For somebody who needs accessibility accommodation, this doesn't have a transcript so it is not useful to me."

    Shivastuti K. - "For somebody who needs accessibility accommodation, this doesn't have a transcript so it is not useful to me."See full answer

    Software Engineer
    System Design
    +2 more
  • "Clarify Functionality: Watch is a tab in FB app where people can upload and view Videos. What's the redesign? We collapsed the reaction and comment bar so people can see more videos and spend more time watching videos. What's the objective of the redesign? To help people discover and watch more videos they'll enjoy._ Structure To decide whether or not to ship this redesign, i'd like to go over. How does the Watch Tab fit into FB's mission and what's its goal? What's the long-"

    Sandy L. - "Clarify Functionality: Watch is a tab in FB app where people can upload and view Videos. What's the redesign? We collapsed the reaction and comment bar so people can see more videos and spend more time watching videos. What's the objective of the redesign? To help people discover and watch more videos they'll enjoy._ Structure To decide whether or not to ship this redesign, i'd like to go over. How does the Watch Tab fit into FB's mission and what's its goal? What's the long-"See full answer

    Execution
    Behavioral
    +1 more
  • eBay logoAsked at eBay 
    Video answer for 'How would you improve your favorite product?'

    "When a question like this is asked what is really being asked is "how do you think about the elements that make up a product and how does each part add value?". I generally try to answer it with a feature that has to do with user interaction. Good answers to this question could include "I would add a button to edit a post, and make it more visible and accessible rather than buried in a menu". Your rationale might be "**because it encourages users to post without fear that they will make"

    Sydney S. - "When a question like this is asked what is really being asked is "how do you think about the elements that make up a product and how does each part add value?". I generally try to answer it with a feature that has to do with user interaction. Good answers to this question could include "I would add a button to edit a post, and make it more visible and accessible rather than buried in a menu". Your rationale might be "**because it encourages users to post without fear that they will make"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    Video answer for 'How would you improve Google News?'
    +2

    "Clarification: Believe no constraints such as for specific market or for specific device, No specific goal , can explore what improve means. Goal: can I assume improve user experience and resolve pain points, and not around monetization So goal could be to improve engagement and higher customer satisfaction with google news as a product, so basically more usage, and lower churn So more DAU Users: Consumers based on how they consume: Deep dive into news reports in a specific area of the"

    Shiva S. - "Clarification: Believe no constraints such as for specific market or for specific device, No specific goal , can explore what improve means. Goal: can I assume improve user experience and resolve pain points, and not around monetization So goal could be to improve engagement and higher customer satisfaction with google news as a product, so basically more usage, and lower churn So more DAU Users: Consumers based on how they consume: Deep dive into news reports in a specific area of the"See full answer

    Product Design
  • "You deploy the member for a retraining depending on the task ahead"

    Ra E. - "You deploy the member for a retraining depending on the task ahead"See full answer

    Engineering Manager
    Behavioral
  • "Inventory Service and Registration service can they be in SYNC always ?? The "experience layer" needs accessed by Hotel owners also ??? How does real time inventory come from all Hotels ???"

    Anup S. - "Inventory Service and Registration service can they be in SYNC always ?? The "experience layer" needs accessed by Hotel owners also ??? How does real time inventory come from all Hotels ???"See full answer

    System Design
  • Business Analyst
    Data Analysis
    +2 more
  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    Video answer for 'Why is Android strategic for Google?'
    +14

    "Google’s Mission: Organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible. Google offers perhaps the most consequential set services available on the internet today - Search, Maps, Gmail, Drive, Docs, etc. These services reach billions of users across the world and they are all available for free. Google is able to give away these services for free because of how their business model works. Google’s Business Model: Google makes money from Ads. They offer perhaps the most"

    Sameer A. - "Google’s Mission: Organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible. Google offers perhaps the most consequential set services available on the internet today - Search, Maps, Gmail, Drive, Docs, etc. These services reach billions of users across the world and they are all available for free. Google is able to give away these services for free because of how their business model works. Google’s Business Model: Google makes money from Ads. They offer perhaps the most"See full answer

    BizOps & Strategy
    Product Strategy
    +1 more
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