Interview Questions

Anubhav A. - "I have not been at SFO airport but if it would have been a similar busy airport like Mumbai Airport I would use the following approach. Re-iterating the question: We are interested in improving the experience for users who drop their cars in airport parking. The experience in question starts from the moment they enter the parking area till the time they board the plane. Core metrics that define the experience for users: Time taken to board the flight from the time I reached at the parking z"See full answer

Adem C. - "Go is compiled with llvm so, application run on the OS directly. Hence, java is compiled to bytecode, that means, it needs to be run in JVM and needs to recompile inside the VM. So, theoretically, go is faster than java when they run. But, not sure if practically difference"See full answer

Mision veterans ministry B. - "I explained that I devoted my entire 21 year special education teaching career to helping others and that evolved me into the man I am today dedicated to helping others help others. It’s the #Karma Krush"See full answer

Anonymous Goat - "Comprehend the Situation: What is the goal?The goal is to introduce an ACH payment method in the United States for Netflix. Why is this important?ACH payments can offer a convenient and cost-effective payment option for customers. Who are the stakeholders?Stakeholders include Netflix customers, the product team, finance, legal, and compliance teams. How does ACH work? transaction flow and potential benefits. Identify the Customer: Recurring subscribers and"See full answer

My N. - "Partner with IoT manufacturer new smart product, phone in the center Bundle google personal security subscription with IoT package Commercial package security, industrial use case medical device, airplane, ship, vehicle management, maintenance and remote usage Public sector smart cities"See full answer

Chinedu ekene O. - "After more than five years at my previous company, I had contributed significantly to many important projects and helped the team navigate critical transitions, such as our shift from a monolithic to a microservices architecture. However, over time, I realized that my goals and the direction of the company were no longer fully aligned. I felt I had outgrown the position and was ready for new challenges, where I could continue to grow both technically and professionally. Ultimately, I’m excited a"See full answer

Lee F. - "If this is not a project, we should first establish a memorandum of understanding that gives us a sense of their availability, skills, minimum and maximum levels of support, and other parameters that would govern their involvement. With a project in hand, the same understandings need to be achieved or renewed before project commitment to see if tech/DS can fulfill the need. You owe it to your partners to provide them with as much clarity about the project as you can: its goals, scope and deadlin"See full answer

VictorSage - "This happened in my previous job in [company X]. I was the Single threaded Owner for a new business growth initiative from this company to launch a new eCommerce supply chain solution that X was planning to experiment. Being the single threaded owner, I was accountable for researching the customer problems and coming up with business goals and requirements, including identifying the engineering headcount needed to solve the customer pain point and eventually execute it across 11 different produ"See full answer

Eshan P. - "Background A. Objective Lyft has a presence in Toledo, Ohio. At our current revenue per ride of $6, we can match 60% consumers requesting a ride with a driver. Our goal is to maximize net revenues in the next 12 months by figuring out the optimal revenue per ride. B. TLDR Summary · With a target market of (~100K-138K) consumers, on a $25 charge to consumers, Lyft should pay $20.75 to drivers and fix its share at $4.25 to maximize its net revenues over a 12-mont"See full answer

T I. - "Idempotence refers to the property that the same request multiple times produces the same result on the server side. No matter how many times I repeat the request, the server state does not change after the first request. This concept is important to ensure consistency, especially in systems where requests may be repeated due to network failures or other problems. Let's take a look at different HTTP methods for a clearer understanding. GET: By definition, GET requests must be powerless. Execut"See full answer

Anhul C. - "The effectiveness of product positioning can be evaluated based on the goal of the product launch. To do this, we have to follow the below steps: First establish the goal of the product launch (is it customer acquisition? activation? Monetization? Identify who the customers are What is the customer need we are trying to address by the product What is the total addressable market TAM? What % of the TAM do we expect to acquire by the said product? Finally, based on the actions w"See full answer

Smriti G. - "Product -> Self service Portal North Star Metric-> No. of proposal downloaded Problem-> 15% Decrease in Proposal downloads RCA-> System Health check-> Bugs, errors in pages during session, site crashed, server inavailability, new feature was introduced which made it difficult for user to navigate. If there was problem of server in-availability, is load balancer working fine/server is not available? If problem was with feature-> What feature was introduced? do an A/B test with older feature Fu"See full answer

Lee F. - "Is this s shuttle service or the standard uber service? Let's assume the latter. First Uber should gather some data. Find cities similar to Bangalore in several measures that Uber already services. Al bring in cities in India that already are services by Uber, if any. With this in hand, do a multifactoral analysis to try and understand the likely demand in Bangalore. That will help the company understand how many drivers it needs to launch with, so that user expectations for service are met. Hir"See full answer

Bhagya D. - "Situation: Narrated about a time when the decision favored the most important customer, but appeared to be at the cost of diluting my own company's brand value. Context: Provided additional context around why the ask from the customer is very critical for the customer. And why my leadership wasn't ready to jump on the gun as it was cannibalistic to our brand value. Response: I used data to explain why it is not going to be a big blow to our brand value. Used a counter metric to show that we h"See full answer

Vaibhav C. - "To determine if a graph is not a tree, you can check for the following conditions: Presence of cycles: A graph is not a tree if it contains cycles. In a tree, there should be exactly one unique path between any two vertices. If you can find a cycle in the graph, it cannot be a tree. Insufficient number of edges: A tree with N vertices will have exactly N-1 edges. If the graph has fewer or more than N-1 edges, then it is not a tree. Disconnected components: A tree is a connected graph, m"See full answer

James W. - "I'd do an audit of what we understand, the gaps and the risks. What information do we have and how confident do we feel? What assumptions do we have? What do we not know? What is the risk of making certain assumptions? With this information, and a pulse of your team you can get an understanding of the risk level for moving forward. If the risk is high, you need to go back to leadership with the evidence and ask for more time. **What's the risk if we don't launch on"See full answer