Interview Questions

Coco H. - "These works often aren't comparable, so that I'd use a balanced portfolio of 20%-30% engineering needs and 70%-80% user needs to satisfy both sides. However, this is only a starting point, if engineering requests more than this baseline then I would use ROI to prioritize."See full answer

Atefeh M. - "I received an offer to join a well-known company as a senior product manager with very good payment. I was in my third of pregnancy. so if I joined the company, I would have left it in 6th month. So on the conversation with VP of product I told him the situation. He thanked me, and told me that we would wait for you after 2 years from now."See full answer

K N. - "Assumptions Contact lens camera is launched only in the US Ages most likely to benefit 20-60 Doesn't work with prescription i.e. people who have prescription glasses/contact lens are not the target market Can't be worn all the time max of 10 hours. Capturing video via contact lens means people have to stare at things uninterrupted. Assuming, no that video stops the moment people close their eyelids video length will be limited to maximum staring"See full answer

Anonymous Wolf - "Construct a min-heap either inplace, or by making a copy of the array and then applying heapify on that copy. This is done in O(n) time. Maintain two zero-initialised variables - sum and count. Keep popping off the heap while sum < k, and update count. In the worst case you will have to do n pops, and each pop is O(log n), so the algorithm would take O(n log n) in total. Space complexity depends on whether you're allowed to modify inplace or not, so either O(1) or O(n) respectively."See full answer

Anand T. - "Use face recognition as a preliminary step"See full answer

Robbie A. - "Discussed a toaster, the user case for a toaster, how this toaster fails, why the company might have made those design choices."See full answer

Priyanka D. - "Spotify is a music application that allows users to listen to music, create their own playlists, share songs, recommend songs based on their listening patterns etc. Clarifying questions: Goal - Improve engagement and provide blind people with a platform to listen to music as they miss out on a lot of aspects of life. The main idea is to promote more inclusivity Same app or different - Same app Time or resource constraints: No Spotify has music creators and music listeners who are we"See full answer

Chaitali M. - "Clarifications: Is it the voice only Alexa devices or includes echo show (video)? Goal: To have people to safety quickest Users: Alexa owner At the house when somebody breaks in Family Single adult/seniors Outside the house at the time of break in Police Department Pain points/user group: Owner in the house at the time of burglary Inform all the house members at the earliest. Send SOS out on all/selective Alexa devices to ask family members to reach a safe place 2"See full answer

Promise S. - "Submitted before deadline and described the creativity behind the new website"See full answer

Abhinav C. - "Clarifying Questions Is it for a specific museum or any museum? To start with for a specific museum , we can expand to more museums Which region? Lets say a museum in UK, US or Europe any specific problem you want to solve? nothing specific What is the objective or goal of the app? You can choose Goal : To enhance the experience of visiting the museum and increase footfall in the long run through word of mouth / referrals Users : Museum Visitors Painpoints / Use Cases :- 1) For l"See full answer

Soso K. - "Clarification: This is only for Facebook and not for Instagram, whatsapp etc. Facebook Hashtag helps Meta users to drive visibility into user posts as well as help categorize a post, feeling to what others in the community might be feeling. This helps bring the community together and that aligns with the mission of Facebook, which is to bring the world closer. This feature is also not a new feature in overall social media landscape, Twitter did it before and gained instant popularity. Wit"See full answer

Sg S. - "Let’s talk about goals first Goals are: Yelp:
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I assumed that main goal is the revenue from advertising. It PPC advertising so we want more people to click on it.
2 Keep high user engagement level advertisers: want to keep the CR and CPS. Let’s discuss how can we define the appropriate number of ads: We can set up AB testing with different number of ads. We want to see if there is significant revenue increase when we show 1,3,5 ads.
We also want to check the tradeoffs and be sure tha"See full answer

Amparo L. - "I would improve the Walmart search function by being more specific on what I’m searching like for example if I’m searching for potato chips I would just type Lays Potato Chips and then click the search button and It will appear a lot of options instead of all other brands."See full answer

Rudra pratap S. - "Install was sudden or gradual. Let’s we are seeing it from last month. It it happening in any particular country or location? Let’s say india only. Have we seen any bad PR issues from our competitors? Let’s say no. Have we launched any new song from any famous singer in the last month? Let’s say no. Only installs are increased or free to premium conversion is also increased. Let’s say yes we have seen increase in free to premium conversion also. Have we launched any new market campaign with extr"See full answer

Priyanka A. - "I will sit with the client to understand the requirement and priority. On the basis of the priority I will make a sprint plan with team where I will focus on the high priority items first. once sprint plan is done I will distribute roles and responsibility. In daily stand ups I will make sure about ant obstacle team is facing. Regularly check the backlog. I will check the project health daily using JIRA. If everything is going as planned I will release the first increment in"See full answer

Samarth S. - "Before we jump into discussion , few Qs which come to my mind in order to narrow the scope are: What kind of security system we are thinking . What do we want to achieve? Is there any biz goal in mind. What security related pain points are we trying to solve. What is the kind of hotel - is it a vacation rental , standalone hotel, highway motel, big chain resorts? What are the current systems being used. I think most of hotels have closed circuit cameras , fire alarms installed in"See full answer