Interview Questions

SG - "Clarification - Are we referring to HW or SW/experience or overall product? Choose any. Choosing overall product. Are we targeting a particular use case - such as health/commerce/or am I free to choose one? Choose on your own. Any other constraints that I should be aware or? Lastly, does it have to meet both AR and VR, or can we prioritize one at this time? And if so, any concerns with prioritizing one? I am choosing to prioritize AR this point .. and I'll walk you thoroug"See full answer

Anonymous Chinchilla - "Advice would be really appreciated! Clarification: To download the app, do users need to go to the app store/or open a web browser to click download? [Assume the interviewer said it is up to me] Approach : summarize the overall process of sharing listing out how could we optimize every step in the process to make sharing features effective ranking each feature by their priorities setting metrics, perform A/B tests and evaluate results. **Step1: Summarize Shari"See full answer

Pradeep kumar S. - "The primary goal of the adtech platform is to precisely target your audience online, that can reap great rewards for your marketing and revenue objectives. For that we have to define Program Success Metrics. Here are six key metrics for technology companies used by leading advertising providers such as Facebook and Google use: Impressions: How many unique and total viewership of the ad Exposure: the average number of times an ad is served per person. Engagement Rate: how many click t"See full answer

Patrick M. - "First thing I would like to consider is what is the potential opportunity to building an apps marketplace. Questions I would ask are: What’s the current user base of Microsoft Office Suite? What is that in revenue? Is it growing or declining? Where are users going to if they’re leaving? What are the most popular and least popular apps used in the Office suite? What are other apps that Microsoft Officer users use outside of the suite? Assuming that Microsoft Office has a massive us"See full answer

Abhishek S. - "Draft: Interview on the Goal of Airbnb Hosts Interviewer: What is the goal of Airbnb hosts? Abhishek: Clarifying question - By goal, what exactly do you mean? Are we talking about the business goal, product roadmap, expansion goal, growth, or marketing? And are we just talking about hosts, not Airbnb as a whole, right? Also, is it the website, mobile app, or the whole hosts business vertical? Interviewer: Good clarifying questions! By "goal," I mean the business goal of Airbnb ho"See full answer

Yulia D. - "What age of kid we are speaking about? Lets assume 5-10 years what messenger app are we talking about? you can choose Who is creating the feature? you can choose Finally, do we have any constraints? no, please, just imagine ok. so I think company's goal should be giving the tools for building communities among the youngest ones. First I want to issue what is Kids messenger app. I have kid of 5 years old and among my friends there are only few with gudgets that can provide messenger f"See full answer

Yespm T. - "Define Product: Facebook events lets people organize gatherings in the real world with people on Facebook.  As a creator, you can create public or private event, set date/time/location, invite people.  Invitees can see these events, view who’s coming and provide an answer (RSVP). They can share events with their connections. Define Metric: Clarify which specific success metric has dropped? Assume it's the Avg # of responses (rsvp) per event that has dropped Clarify how mu"See full answer

Cristian A. - "I have this approach of: 30% seniors, to help the semi senior to grow. 30% to 35% semi seniors, to help the jr to grow. 37% to 40% jr or software engineers. With this approach and can foster a culture of grow but also be prepared to rotation of the team. And if you have to add more people, the onboarding is more simple."See full answer

Ankur B. - "If the CEO of YouTube asked you to double the total watch time of the site, how would you do it? Clarifying: --What: Mobile / Desktop | --Where: Global or some certain market? | Any customer segment? --When: How long to have this achieved? --Resource constraints: This is obviously going to come at the expense of something else. How is this related to YouTube’s other products - Music, Premium, Movies, Originals etc, or is this across all of them? Can I design a new feature? How has watcht"See full answer

Andrea M. - "Asked clarifying questions to understand why we want to do this. Said building is too labor intensive and AirBnB has years of experience in this. Said buying a company is probably too expensive and doesn't address why we're doing this to begin with. I said partnering with a travel company might be the best move."See full answer

Amparo L. - "My toughest project was at the Hampton Inn in 2023 and what we did was we had to sort the soap into boxes and then what was hard about it is we had to sort the boxes of soaps into bottles and on the other box we had to put the bottles, we had to make it neat so that they can ship it into other areas were soap was needed."See full answer

Ash J. - "Clarify: Has metric definition changed for what the NSM is and app startup time?-->No Are we sure that this not just a correlation and causal? For e.g. We would need to dive into a few different technical buckets around regional, version and other features launched-->No Time period: Is it over the same time period?--> Yes Goal: FB goal: Empower people to build community and bring world close"See full answer