Interview Questions

Ferri T. - "Clarification questions: What is the mission of the company? To connect people together to unleash their creativity. Is there any geographical areas that I should concentrate on? It is worldwide. Are there any constraints? No, there is none. Success of the usage of the app? The PM to pick. Approach: Establish the nature of the application. Establish the type of users that would be on the platform. Lay out what the user journey is. Define the metrics that are relevant. -"See full answer

Ted K. - "Depends on the memory available. Also if there's any structure to the data already. If this is just pure numbers random and all over the place and we don't need to worry about space. Then radix sort would be the best. But this all depends on what constraints the interviewer gives you."See full answer

Priyanka D. - "Target Consumers: corporate clients - for business meetings students (in school, college) aspirants who want to take competitive exams/tests Identify underserved customer needs: re-application leads to post-it's not being sticky enough space crunch so user needs to be precise post-its need to stick from all 4 corners for it to be readable and so it folds less writing with pen, marker gets imprinted on next page Define Value Proposition: a small piece of paper with concise list of"See full answer

Darpan D. - "Clarifying and Assumptions When we say New York City, does this mean just Downtown New York or also the suburbs? Assumption: It means Downtown New York only. Is the bike-sharing service like Uber, where people share their own bikes, or is it a service run by a company with bike stands on street corners? Assumption: It’s run by a private company with bike stands on street corners. Will the bike-sharing service start as free, or will we charge people from the beginning?"See full answer

Alessandra L. - "My answer followed the framework: Users -> Goals -> Main Tasks -> Requirements -> Design -> Implementation -> Launch"See full answer

Divyani .. - "Did the code in Python"See full answer

Sai ganapathy S. - "Estimation - Estimate Lyft revenue Modes of Income Revenue through Ads Revenue earned from drivers and ride bookings Premium Subscriptions (Lyft Pink) and Other + subscriptions. Considering US as Lyft's primary market and hence estimating revenue for this market for Lyft Total Population of US : 330 Million Among this 330M, there are Low income families - Families who earn just to make their ends meet. So they won’t be able to afford cabs since it is a bit expensive. Assuming"See full answer

Kitan F. - "I described why I liked the product Defined success metrics Proposed an A/B test"See full answer

Riku H. - "Great question. Before I start can I start asking some clarifying qs? By video I am assuming this is FB videos where it's selectively fed unto the newsfeed correct? Yes For FB events should the user be fed with their events, their friends, events or also events in their network? Good Q. I would say yes for the purpose of this question that that's all in scope. Is videos the same as reels? No in this case they are similar but different products where FB videos do not have the 90 sec t"See full answer

Jason C. - "The VR/AR industry is poised to explode and a wearable tech has steadily entered the mainstream. As a CEO of a healthtech startup, I would build a product that serves both industries - the 'middleware' between the plethora of smart watches / fitness trackers and the increasing number of VR/AR workout applications. This product would make it easy for apps to record key health metrics for their users without integrating with the countless wearable tech brands on the market."See full answer

Parth P. - "Establish more servers on regional bases or locally and move network traffic to these servers instead of keeping on one server."See full answer

Anushka R. - "One key thing I learned that made everything easier for me as a data analyst was the importance of structured thinking and communication before diving into the data. Early in my career, I used to jump directly into tasks like data cleaning, ETL processes—without fully understanding the problem or defining the questions I was trying to answer. This sometimes led to inefficiencies, as I would have to backtrack or redo work because the insights weren't completely aligned with stakeholder needs. I"See full answer

A S. - "Clarified with interviewer: How it is used ? user will give facebook page of school as input What is the criteria for declaring school as duplicate ? same name and location used exposed APIs of parent service to create and maintain a inverted index [msg queue+spark]. Duplicate matching service will use elastic search [and filter out input school page]. Elastic will search and return results of school name and geospatial matching ."See full answer