Interview Questions

Rev - "Narrow down on a person (born in city childhood - school - college - work - retirement) Age: 0-5 = ignoring travel for this part (might travel with parents) 5-19 = weekdays school, weekends outings School distance 5 km , total = 10km (to & fro) (4 intersections * 1min(time spent) = 4 min/ day) 52 x 5 x 4 = 1040 mins ~ 15 hrs 15 * 14 yrs = 210 hrs Weekends 52 x 2 = 104 days * 0.3 = 30 days Trips = 10 km (8 intersections * 1min(time spent) = 8 mins) 30 x 8 ="See full answer

Rafia M. - "SQL is structured query language."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

Yulia D. - "What age of kid we are speaking about? Lets assume 5-10 years what messenger app are we talking about? you can choose Who is creating the feature? you can choose Finally, do we have any constraints? no, please, just imagine ok. so I think company's goal should be giving the tools for building communities among the youngest ones. First I want to issue what is Kids messenger app. I have kid of 5 years old and among my friends there are only few with gudgets that can provide messenger f"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

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

Ben G. - "Mobile typically involves creating designs optimized for smaller screens and touch-based interactions, while desktop designs are optimized for larger screens and mouse-based interactions. Mobile Pros: Greater accessibility: Mobile apps can be used anywhere, as long as the user has their phone. This makes them convenient for people whose rhythm of life is relatively high and requires quick and convenient access to modern technology, services, and gadgets. Wider audience: There are"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

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

Priti S. - "T launch the Copilot Plus feature for Surface, follow these steps: Define Value Proposition: Highlight AI-driven enhancements for productivity, creativity, and collaboration tailored to Surface users. Target Audience: Focus on professionals, creators, and students with specific use cases. Product Development: Ensure seamless integration with Surface hardware (touchscreen, Pen) and leverage Azure AI for unique functionalities. Marketing Strategy: Build excitement with teasers, influencer partner"See full answer

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

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

Naga M. - "Based on the required significance level (usually less than 5%) and based on the test power (usually 95%?), I will calculate the required sample size. Once I get the sample size, then I will do the A/B testing until I meet the sample size."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

Googlepm 1. - "Clarifying Questions : What is the intent behind the ask, is it revenue, user engagement, increasing number of users ? Let's assume revenue and user engagement. Current user journey : user logs into YT user searched for a video user watches the video user gets another play forward video User provides comments to the video Personas : Casual user who comes to the site for info, entertainment or expertise Student Professionals Business user There could be overlap"See full answer