Interview Questions

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

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

Shahnawaz K. - "I am going to assume, the person is 50 years old and uses a basic feature phone. Here is how it goes Local Context: When you come back from morning walk, you are your friends stop at a chai point to rest and have tea, what do you talk about ? (Assume he says everything and anything). Imagine there are no friends but you still want to talk and you want your friends and everyone to listen to your thoughts / rant. Imagine you don’t want to talk but you want only listen to what your frien"See full answer

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

Mark M. - "I don't have experience working with alot of Biological Scientists. Most of my experience comes with Data Scientists. Described how I used ideation techniques like brainstorming and other creative ways to get people to find common ground. I also mentioned how I like to do survey's before meetings to prompt people and also get unbiased opnions"See full answer

Akhil S. - "solving too much demand and not enough supply; look at how many users are unable to find a ride within a reasonable amt of time (to be defined) would would increase prices everytime someone doesn't get a ride at small intervals. In a few minutes, the prices would increase to an equilibrium."See full answer