Interview Questions

Shiva S. - "Car sharing app, like an airbnb but for cars. Assuming for the US market. Goal: Awareness , Acquisition, Engagement, Retention Getting new users to take more rides User Segments: Owners Have a spare car not being used Don't have to purchase the car Own unused premium cars Looking at Turo as an investment option when making a car purchase decision Renters Rent for work trips Rent for vacations Rent during a short stay in town _Family and Indivi"See full answer

Varun J. - "Assumptions: In-app feature Focused only on Facebook app and not messenger, WhatsApp, or Instagram Focused on community building and groups, not marketplace Facebook's mission is to bring people closer together and give people the power to build communities. Fans of Olympic games straddle across regions and across demographics such as age and gender. I'd assume the product for Olympics should be targeted to all demographics. However, given not everyone follows, or is interested in build"See full answer

Prasanth R. - "I will charge them based on subscription basis per user/per month with aggressive pricing."See full answer

Y C. - "Clarifying questions Financial savviness is it related means Digital wallet Prudent Spending habits Intuitive savings Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful Geographical or any other constraint Product goal - This is in total alignment with Google's mission as it is trying to provide the consumers their financial information and making it useful. Engagement User personas Students Millennials Professionals -"See full answer

Krishna K. - "Improve what aspect of Google Translate ? What is the current state of that aspect ?"See full answer

Vinayak A. - "First thing I would do is dig deeper into the problem. Starting off with the data source suggesting the drop of 10%. Next is investigating - what does drop in traffic mean? For example - 10% drop in logins, email traffic, email creation. Next, once I identify the its for example an issue with logins, I would like to drill a deeper into further isolating the problem based on geography, operating platform (mobile/desktop), specific time of day, any other information I could get. At this point,"See full answer

Andrea M. - "Asked clarifying questions to understand why we want to do this. Said building is too labor intensive and AirBnB has years of experience in this. Said buying a company is probably too expensive and doesn't address why we're doing this to begin with. I said partnering with a travel company might be the best move."See full answer

Alex C. - "I would have been destroyed on this."See full answer

Jeet B. - "I contradict the choice of DB for storing App Data in this case, I believe a NoSQL would have been a better choice. Could you please clarify why you chose RDBMS/SQL?"See full answer

Karthik M. - "Assumptions & Clarifications Users have access to all Google Workspace applications like Google Drive, Gmail and the same photo editing tool - let us call this tool - Google Photo Editor (GPhoto). Users can share the images like Google Docs - giving people read-only, read-write / edit access Goals Google's vision is to organize the world's information and make it accessible. GPhoto's mission / goal is to organize the world’s photo and make it accessible to others to view, edit or"See full answer

Ash J. - "Clarify: Has metric definition changed for what the NSM is and app startup time?-->No Are we sure that this not just a correlation and causal? For e.g. We would need to dive into a few different technical buckets around regional, version and other features launched-->No Time period: Is it over the same time period?--> Yes Goal: FB goal: Empower people to build community and bring world close"See full answer

Hmm T. - "Below are few key things enterprises look for in a data center : Location Proximity to target user base Potential risk exposure due to natural calamities (hurricane, storms, tornedos etc) Real estate cost (Service cost will also be proportional to how expensive it is to acquire and run data center) Security Physical security Logical security (Segregation) Industry standard compliance PCI DSS ISO etc Ability to support HA and DR requir"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