Interview Questions

Anhul C. - "The effectiveness of product positioning can be evaluated based on the goal of the product launch. To do this, we have to follow the below steps: First establish the goal of the product launch (is it customer acquisition? activation? Monetization? Identify who the customers are What is the customer need we are trying to address by the product What is the total addressable market TAM? What % of the TAM do we expect to acquire by the said product? Finally, based on the actions w"See full answer

Sarabjeet S. - "Clarification: What type of business partners are these, some examples? Why isn't a phone/Google meet sufficient for communication? Any specific countries - abroad? With unlimited resources: Mission - To drive increases in Google's business through partnerships Goal of this project - Enable Sundar to communicate quickly and effectively with partners Product vision - Multi-language simulcast of Sundar's message tailored for individual partners Details: Allow Sundar to relay the same message t"See full answer

Jacob C. - "Clarifying Questions: What currently defines profile completion? Does it have to be 100% completion or something like 80% of all available profile attributes. Or is it some specific set of must-have profile attributes like bio, current job, previous experience, etc. May I know some successful things that are helping users complete their profiles today and some unsuccessful ones as well that we tried but did not show lift in profile completion metrics? Goal: Engagement from free u"See full answer

Jiale L. - "I’d open by confirming we’re designing object storage for arbitrary binary objects—images, backups, data lake files—not block volumes for VMs unless you redirect me. Actors: developers and services inside Amazon’s ecosystem, multi-tenant, millions of buckets, trillions of objects. MVP API: create bucket, PUT object, GET object, DELETE, list objects with prefix, HEAD for metadata. I’d ask about versioning, encryption at rest default, and whether"See full answer

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

RestlessMonk - "I prefer to build a team of complementary skills than being skewed on one aspect. And generally avoid an all rockstar team. Technically, this means we will have atleast one rockstar for one skill and it is acceptable if that rockstar is just an avg performer on other skills Which person gets indexed more on which skill is a time to time exercise depending on needs of the org, product charter and career aspirations of the person."See full answer

Anonymous Hornet - "To handle the non-uniform sampling, I'd first clean and divide the dataset into chunks of n second interval 'uniform' trajectory data(e.g. 5s or 10s trajectories). This gives us a cleaner trajectory data chunks, T, of format (ship_ID, x, y, z, timestamp) to be formed. For the system itself, I'd use a generative model, e.g. Variational AutoEncoder (VAE), and train the model's 'encoder' to produce a latent-space representation of input features (x,y,z,timestamp) from T, and it's 'decoder' to pred"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

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

Exponent - "This is a Strategy Question, which asks you to justify high-level business decisions and strategy. There's no set formula, but we recommend proposing at least three different reasons to answer the question. Let's go over one possible solution: > If I were TikTok, I would look to monetize it similar to Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook: through dedicated ad channels.Specifically having pre-roll ads appear on open, and ads appear in-feed every few videos. TikTok is the perfect platform to lever"See full answer

Nitesh N. - "I would ask/investigate the following: Is this our core competancy of our company How long would it take to develop it in house and how much would it cost what will be the time to market of this feature or service when developed in house what is long term vision of this solution - do we expect that this will grow into becoming a major revenue stream for the company in future and the future of the company will be tied to it? What is our track record as a company building such a sol"See full answer