Interview Questions

Himant G. - "Gusto provides the platform for HR services, Employee management/Payroll etc Why 2-factor authentication? Due to increasing cyber attacks, it is more important that the user identity be verified because the password verification doesn't seem to be just enough Passwords are compromised at times to bots, so a most robust mechanism is required which can identify that the authorized users are logging and using services Customers have often reported lack of confidence in using the product"See full answer

Musa G. - "Depends on the kind of goals they are trying to pursue. I would clarify with the interviewer. . if you work for say a fintech, and are trying to create say a real-estate app with company resources - no go . if you want to write a book on management say while being an EM, then there's some wiggle room here. As long as you get the book approved by your IP team, should be ok . if you want to work on a hackathon project on something tangentially related to your team, still ok as long as the concept"See full answer

Mark - "Clarifying questions: What's Airbnb goal in making this requirement? Are we talking about the listing for Airbnb's core business - lodging? Approach: Before we dive in, it would be beneficial for us to first discuss our base understanding of Airbnb's business, who are the user segments that this feature can impact, and some hypothesis on what Airbnb's goal should be Once we define the goal of this feature, we can go over our approach on how we will evaluate whether we should make"See full answer

BC - "Continuous learning is a core value of mine; I want to positively impact others starting from the people around me. That means, supporting my coworkers, a team, and an organization that is committed to thoughtfully solving and resolving others pain points. As long as design is able to open these opportunities for me, I plan to continue walking this path with the end goal of seeing how this attitude can blossom, influence, and compound at scale."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

Mark J. - "."See full answer

Ananya M. - "goal : user experience CUJ for cinema : Part A : deciding to watch a movie read reviews for movies that have released check nearby cinemas that are showing that movie check with friends/family who want to go with you find tickets online at a nearby cinema (if its a hit movie, you better hurry) buy tickets online split price on an app like split wise Part B : physically arriving at the theatre arrive at cinema hall find parking show e-ticket to enter stand i"See full answer

Lazarus J. - "I spoke about holding a workshop to understand their perspective of why delivering a feature was so important to them. I was showing them"See full answer

Kaleb A. - "Questioning ones own self in the 1st, 2nd person."See full answer

Exponent - "You should identify this type of interview question as an Expansion problem, since we're expanding to a new market. This is similar to a growth problem, with a few additional components. This is the formula you should use when tackling these types of interview questions: Ask clarifying questions Perform user analysis Market risk analysis State goals Perform channel analysis Prioritize growth channels Strategy Summarize Without further"See full answer

Grishma W. - "Generally would depend on the type of projects that are assigned to the team, but mostly 2 Front end developers, 3 backend developers & 2 testers"See full answer

William M. - "Relu = 0 if > some threshold else x sigmoid normalizes to 0-1 asymptotically"See full answer

Seamus L. - "The first part is to design with either a linked list of IDs or an array of boolean values. The second part is to optimize both time and memory."See full answer

Exponent - "This is a Measure Success question with a slight twist. The twist here is we need to consider a hypothetical product rather that one already built. This changes our formula slightly - specifically we may not be able to apply a UX flow to drive analysis since we're unsure of the implementation. Instead, we'll look at core behaviors that are indicative of success. Here's the modified formula: Ask clarifying questions State the goal of the feature **Apply a UX flow to drive a"See full answer