Interview Questions

Karthik M. - "Structure Why should we build this? + market, company, product, trends Users Painpoints Solutions Summary Clarify company - 0 to 1 Why should build this Market factors Size and opportunity (tam) sizeable market - billions of dollars in TAM Competitors (1) governments (2) parkmobile (3) vendors for each parking lot (parking structures / lots, man people) Strengths Parkmobile - available anywh"See full answer

Tyler V. - "This is a very interesting question. First, I would like to ask a few clarifying questions about the premise, as I am not a bird expert! (pause for polite chuckle.) For the purposes of this question, I am going to assume some priors about you mean when you say "survival" and "adaptation". If we are discussing these in the evolutionary sense, it's very difficult to understand the time scale and actual causality that would be needed to bring about any sort of assessment of how this one aspect of"See full answer

Veronica S. - " CQ: 1. Understanding of Google search and the way ads are being displayed today. What kind of subscription model are we thinking of: same as youtube I talked about Google search as a flagship product of google. % of revenue generated from ads. Other search engines and there % share in the market. Other players such as Facebook whose 99% revenue is from ads. Talked about Google Mission and alignment of the ads with Google mission Pro Con list of subscription versus ads User exp. 2."See full answer

slouchingtowardssv - "Clarify the problem / make assumptions: What are we defining as misleading? For this problem, any video that contains information countering accepted scientific/research-driven results What is meant by fix? Does that entail removing said videos? For this problem, I want to see if we can minimize the amount of videos pulled from YouTube Intro to the product: YouTube is a video-sharing platform that was acquired by Google in 2006 YouTube's original mission statement:"See full answer

Anonymous Roadrunner - "from typing import List def traprainwater(height: List[int]) -> int: if not height: return 0 l, r = 0, len(height) - 1 leftMax, rightMax = height[l], height[r] res = 0 while l < r: if leftMax < rightMax: l += 1 leftMax = max(leftMax, height[l]) res += leftMax - height[l] else: r -= 1 rightMax = max(rightMax, height[r]) "See full answer

Jayveer S. - "WITH suspicious_transactions AS ( SELECT c.first_name, c.last_name, t.receipt_number, COUNT(t.receiptnumber) OVER (PARTITION BY c.customerid) AS noofoffences FROM customers c JOIN transactions t ON c.customerid = t.customerid WHERE t.receipt_number LIKE '%999%' OR t.receipt_number LIKE '%1234%' OR t.receipt_number LIKE '%XYZ%' ) SELECT first_name, last_name, receipt_number, noofoffences FROM suspicious_transactions WHERE noofoffences >= 2;"See full answer

Priti S. - "Designing an Email Application for the Blind Creating an accessible email application for blind users involves leveraging screen reader compatibility, tactile feedback, and voice recognition technologies. Here's a comprehensive approach: Core Design Principles: Accessibility-First Design: Ensure compatibility with screen readers like NVDA, JAWS, or VoiceOver. Follow accessibility guidelines (WCAG) for structure, navigation, and content. Voice Interaction:Use voice comman"See full answer

Cameron P. - "Clarifying Questions: US or globally? globally Consumer or business use? consumer Assumptions: Assuming we are interested in frequent users, let's say someone who uses Google Drive at least 5 times a year. Discluding anyone who has used Google Drive less than 4 times per year. Assuming Google Drive is a place to store, share, and collaborate on files and folders from your mobile device, tablet, or computer. Recap: We would like to estimate the number of users of Google Drive"See full answer

Anzhe M. - "There are 2 questions popping into my mind: Should the 2nd job have to kick off at 12:30AM? Are there others depending on the 2nd job? If both answers are no, we may simply postpone the second job to allow sufficient time for the first one to complete. If they are yeses, we could let the 2nd job retry to a certain amount of times. Make sure that even reaching the maximum of retries won't delay or fail the following jobs."See full answer

Aditi M. - "Amazon Go is cashierless shopping stores. The mission is to improve the shopping experience and reduce the time to get commodities without waiting in line for checkout. The goal of Amazon Go would be adoption and expansion. I will refine the goal as we go further. Competition All Convenience stores like Target, Safeway, Walgreens or any local corner stores too User Segments for Amazon Go Store managers Shoppers High intent shoppers- 2-3 times a week Medium intent and - On"See full answer

Divya R. - "static boolean sudokuSolve(char board) { return sudokuSolve(board, 0, 0); } static boolean sudokuSolve(char board, int r, int c) { if(c>=board[0].length) { r=r+1; c=0; } if(r>=board.length) return true; if(boardr=='.') { for(int num=1; num<=9; num++) { boardr=(char)('0' + num); if(isValidPosition(board, r, c)) { if(sudokuSolve(board, r, c+1)) return true; } boardr='.'; } } else { return sudokuSolve(board, r, c+1); } return false; } static boolean isValidPosition(char b"See full answer

M N. - "Potential ad creators: Brands Drivers Travel services. Goal: To create a revenue stream. Acquire new users? To potentially develop new products? For now, lets focus on generating revenue as the goal. Potential ad products: Ads from brands you can watch while you are riding. Most riders dont look at the app while riding but we can provide them incentives like 5% off next ride if they watch ads the whole ride and pay it via ad revenue. Drivers can pay Lyft to be matched more w"See full answer

Ben G. - "Problem & Users What is the primary problem the App is trying to solve? Who is the primary user for the App? What is the core value proposition and what business model does it employ to serve the value? What are the business goals the app is trying to achieve and how effective is their strategy Structure Is the purpose of the app clearly conveyed? How is the overall use of space? Is there enough negative space? How does the Information Architecture help users accomplish de"See full answer