Interview Questions

Anonymous Parakeet - "Clarifying Questions: How far is the retirement home from the convenience store? What part of the world is this convenience store located in? Will this be designed for Boomer generation or later generations when they retire? We assume that the convenience store is right next door, is located in the US in a very suburban location, and is designed for the Boomer generation that is retired/retiring Users: We assume retirement homes, or assisted living facilities take in folks who"See full answer

Khushbu R. - "Let’s say the matrix is m x n (i.e., m rows and n columns). Start from the top-right corner of the matrix. Move left if you see a 1. Move down if you see a 0. Keep track of the row index where you last saw the leftmost 1 — that row has the most 1s. public class MaxOnesRow { public static int rowWithMostOnes(int matrix) { int rows = matrix.length; int cols = matrix[0].length; int maxRowIndex = -1; int j = cols - 1; /"See full answer

stash - "Clarification: Which region do we want to know about? —> Global Is Facebook lite included in this offering —> No. Only the Facebook app (mobile / web) Product Overview Facebook photo sharing allows users to upload photos and make them visible to their network. Doing so, users are able to share moments from their lives with friends and family. Goals User Goals Share memories with network View people’s reactions and respond View other people’s photos and respond to th"See full answer

Vibhor R. - "As a product manager, my focus is to bring the what and why of the product and deliver the product in the promised timeline. With that said, I typically work closely with my engineering and onboard them during the planning sessions to have a say on the design and feasibility. I try to keep an idea where PMs are not the only responsible folks for ideation and engineering is free to pitch in their two cents. In addition, I typically try to do daily/weekly standup check-ins with my Developers and D"See full answer

Greg W. - "PayPal makes money from: Processing fees from merchants - traditional checkout and buy now, pay later P2P transfers using credit cards Instant money transfers on P2P and to bank accounts Lending products (paypal credit) Cross border fees (Xoom) Crypto trading fees"See full answer

Srihitha J. - "my answer: void* memcpy(void* dest, const void* src, size_t n) { unsigned char* uDest = static_cast(dest); const unsigned char* ucSrc = static_cast(src); for(size_t i= 0; i(dest); const unsigned c"See full answer

P K. - "A very interesting question. Please find below my approach: Understand VP's line of thought and goals trying to achieve Understand the assumptions/ Validate the hypothesis Impact on Brand, revenue, engineering cost, customers, and existing products SWOT Approve or Provide alternative Question to the VP: What is the objective? - higher engagement? easy to interact, peer-to-peer communication? Why the need for a separate platform? - to increase the no.of interactions? to"See full answer

Anubhav A. - "Clarifying questions: Are we taking about a personal parking lot or a public parking lot Do we have an objective in head for this lot -> Make money? Public parking lot from govt body Do we have a particular location in head for this -> basement, outside some building or on the roof Are we particular about the number of vehicles it can take up? Are we particular about the kind of vehicles that it can take up? (2 wheelers, 4 wheelers, heavy weight 4 wheelers) Taking a few assumptions:"See full answer

Derrick M. - "SELECT u.id as user_id, u.name, COUNT(t.product_id) AS orders FROM users u JOIN transactions t ON t.user_id = u.id JOIN products p ON p.id = t.product_id GROUP BY u.id, u.name ORDER BY orders DESC LIMIT 1 `"See full answer

Cameron P. - "3 fav products. Pick 1 and 10X it. My criteria: Add value to my life Easy to use My fav products: Pinterest Youtube Google Docs How would you 10X Youtube? Interviewee: 10X revenue? 10X user base? 10X sales? Interviewer: you can decide Interviewee: Ok, let’s discuss Youtube's mission and goal and we will determine which direction to proceed after Youtube: Global product. Has Red,Music,Kids,Premium. Subscription and Ads. 5B videos watched per day. 80% market share Missio"See full answer

Yenenash W. - "p- value --> Assuming the null hypothesis is true, probability of observing the data as extreme as the observed data. Example - You're running an experiment on a new checkout flow. Control converts at 10.0%, treatment converts at 10.8%. You run a two-sample z-test and get p = 0.03. What this means: If there were truly no difference between control and treatment (null hypothesis), there's only a 3% chance you'd see a difference of 0.8pp or larger just from random sampling noise."See full answer

Pm E. - "Methodology: Clarify some of the terms in our question List high level causes based on the category and gather context information, rule out the ones that have low probability or out of scope Drill down the causes and establish a few hypotyhesis Investigate and test the hypothesis I have and try to fix the problem Clarify questions: Define FB logins: through 3rd party Apps, Assuming our data is accurate, double check with 3rd party Apps that our understanding is correct/ or cr"See full answer

Anonymous Reindeer - "Clarifying Questions: Is it a chain of supermarkets? Or just an individual market? Is the revenue overall or just from one store? What are the reasons for the revenue growth? Pandemic? New buildings around? Other? What does the supermarket sell? Anything specialized? Local goods? Is there an app/website available to order stuff? 10,000 - 50,000 Vision: Be the most customer centric store Goals: Able to reach out to as many users as they can. Increase the user base while keeping th"See full answer