Interview Questions

Ishan M. - "Ask Clarifying Questions : A Podcast app is an app where artists/creators can upload their voice content and users are able to consume it. Is my understanding correct ? Yes Are we building this specifically for ios or android or web ? Consider ios and Android for now. Are we building the podcast app for a particular region like India ? Consider it a global launch What is the timeline that we are looking at? 6 months approximately Is it going to be an independent app or are we loo"See full answer

Jonas P. - "Searching for podcasts over topics is quite easy nowadays. However, usually we either don't find any podcasts interesting enough or are overwhelmed with choice. What really indicates what podcast we want to listen to at the moment is our mood, energy level etc. Additionally, we typically have some requirements, like being on the train and having one hour to spend, or only a five-minute interval while preparing breakfast. As such, I want an interface that lets me search for length. I want my"See full answer

Harshi B. - "SELECT DISTINCT title, ROUND(AVG(rating) over (partition by title),1) avg_rating, ROUND(AVG(rating) over (partition by genre),1) genre_rating FROM rating r JOIN movie m ON r.movieid=m.movieid ORDER by 1"See full answer

Sanmitra I. - "BERT is a bidirectional encoder representation transformer. It takes a sequence of tokens and produces vector embeddings for each token. The BERT Model was trained on the task of next sentence prediction task and masked language modeling. The key difference between word2vec and BERT is that, word2vec produces semantic embeddings for each word, where as BERT produces contextual word embeddings based on the relationships between surrounding words. Example - Vector Embedding of lets say word "i"See full answer

Bhavna S. - "Success for an engineer means using skills and knowledge to solve real-world problems, grow continuously, and build a meaningful career."See full answer

Graig - "I faced twice and it always slows down the career trajectory of engineers with complete context loss of previous hard earned projects"See full answer

Nilanjan D. - "I think we can analyse the data that's collected especially the users who are requesting it.if we find that there are set of users who regularly use this service then we may cache the data for those users to speed up processing and better the experience. The fresh data (which will be a delta on the cached data can only be calculated) and the stale data can be left out thereby updating the cache"See full answer

Raymond W. - "Aim of compression is to reduce the file size and bandwidth consumed in transmission in order to preserve the quality of the image or text as experienced by the consumer/user. Text compression typically uses a library to act as a key for words, either words that repeat in the same document or words that are commonly presented in all documents. And maybe even word parts. Key points are that 1. it tends not to be lossy, 2. is simple/fast/consumes relatively little memory, 3. is pretty standard"See full answer

Mihail E. - "A/B test on a small batch of users/drivers"See full answer

Jacob C. - "Clarifying Questions: Does Google Photos and this feature come pre built into pixel phones or does user has to download the app or enable the feature? (N) - So adoption is not the problem. Do we have auto upload option available for users? (Y) So any user who has this turned on would not be using this feature. In other words, this feature is mainly used for selective upload I think on Pixel phones, Google photos provides unlimited high quality storage? (Y) Understanding the flow: Camer"See full answer

Lee J. - "Assumption: the revenue is on a yearly basis. Revenue = No. of users x price of product x frequency of purchase x size of purchase Product of Google Map = Ads by the merchants To double the revenue, Boost the number of merchants by reaching out to them Increase the price of ads (which is not ideal since it will disincentivise some merchants) Increase the frequency of their purchase in a year (Eg. previously merchants just put ads in Google Map for 6 years and now we can encourage"See full answer

Rishabh S. - "Clarifying Qs: Business Impact: Goal is to add a 7th reaction - Engagement / Monetization / Any other? User Need: Are we aware of the exact new reaction? Symbol? Meaning? User reaction? Product Fit: Is there any link between the new reaction and FB's vision and goal? To determine the necessity of a new reaction, we can: Understand user sentiments about the existing reaction - Are they able to fulfil the emotional spectrum required by the users? We can aim to understand"See full answer

Daniel M. - "Clarifying questions / Assumptions: Scope: US market Constraints: none Limiting to UberX, Uberpool, UberXL services On-the-ground operations: event operations, things going on as people arrive or leave the event Defining 'events': scoping it down to concerts or large-scale events (that typically have a lot of traffic) Defining 'better experience': easier to get to and leave events Goal: I will optimize for greater user satisfaction with our service, which should translate in"See full answer

Darshak S. - "Clarifying Questions: There are several different types of therapists, do you have a particular therapist in mind? Like Mental health, physical health, food and nutrition etc? Reply: You can decide And do we know what country are we building this product, since that will help me narrow down the scope of the product? Reply: USA Approach: Define the product vision and the goal that we want to achieve Target Audience is for this particular product What problems do these user currently"See full answer