Interview Questions

Jeff H. - "Problem: Internet in Africa is not prevalent Assumptions: I am a Google PM I have the resources of Google The goal is not monetization Goals: Improve quality of life in Africa by providing more consistent internet access, adoption, engagement with network. To start, I'd like to start by talking about the goals of Alphabet, which is to make the world more accessible and more useful. I believe this project fits well into our overall mission of making the world more accessible, as t"See full answer

Anonymous Crayfish - "Let me tell you about a time when I learnt the craft of writing and sending emails. I worked at an early stage startup that does voice recording and transcription and one of my primary responsibilities was to engage with existing customers. At that time, there were a around 10k users in total. I decided to split the entire user base into cohorts. Users who've recorded and transcribed atleast 10 words within 3 months Users who've recorded and transcribed atleast 10 words within 3- 6 month"See full answer

Sean L. - "hi"See full answer

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Rudra pratap S. - "Spotify is platform which allows users to listen a variety of song from singers all over the world. It’s mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it. Goal: As we are entering in a new market goal could be acquisition followed by monetization. Pre-launch activities: · Understanding the competition. · Understanding the music taste of af"See full answer

Darpan D. - "Clarifying and assumption When we say financial security, are we talking about authentication, fraud detection or money laundering? Assumption: Fraud detection. Focusing specifically on transaction-level fraud. Is this an internal AI implementation or an external third-party service we provide to multiple financial businesses? Assumption: External Third-party AI financial security product. Requirements Need to detect when fraudulent transactions happen. **Detection stra"See full answer

Exponent - "This is a Technical question. It tests your ability to understand high level technical concepts. Even though your job won't have any coding involved, you'll still need to understand these concepts. Being able to cover all these topics with clarity communicates confidence in your interviewer. Unfortunately, there's no formula for technical questions, but some general tips are: Use analogies when you can Break your solution into clear, bite-size steps Don't be afraid to use examples to b"See full answer

Henry H. - "Overall, a successful Netflix viewing session requires that the user was able to find a piece of content that they loved watching. Now, to break this down, how we might define this: -Time browsing (from app open to content played) -Satisfaction --> inferred satisfaction: did user complete watching the piece of content? --> explicit: did the user rank that they loved the content (2 thumbs up)? The way I would evaluate a new Top Picks ML feature would be to implement an A/B test as follows: Te"See full answer

Manoj K. - "I fumbled but my answer was along these lines Clarification: Are we talking about ChatGPT page or other ways to use it like API Ans: page When you say improve did you mean usage or monetization Ans: you pick We should pick user experience and usage since better product will enable easier monetization. Assume they monetize based on premium users subscription. Lets talk about users Business users Individual users Focus on business since traffic generated by individuals will not be as mu"See full answer

Salome L. - "SELECT AVG(julianday(dateend) - julianday(datestart)) AS avgcampaignduration FROM campaign; `"See full answer

Rahul J. - "Constraints: 4-direction moves; no mode switching (pick exactly one of {1=bicycle, 2=bike, 3=car, 4=bus} for the full trip). Per-mode search: If a mode’s per-step time/cost are uniform, run BFS on allowed cells. Then totaltime = steps × timeperstep, tie-break by steps × costper_step. If time/cost vary by cell (given matrices), run Dijkstra per mode minimizing (totaltime, totalcost) lexicographically. Maintain the best ⟨time, cost⟩ per cell; relax when the new pair is strictly better. S"See full answer

Firdous A. - "Approach (BFS + Horizontal Distance) Assign a horizontal distance (HD) to each node. Root → HD = 0 Left child → HD = parent HD - 1 Right child → HD = parent HD + 1 Do a BFS (level order traversal). If a node with a given HD is seen for the first time, add it to the result. Ignore later nodes with the same HD (because only the top one is visible). After traversal, sort by HD and print nodes left to righ"See full answer

Kandarp T. - "Asking them to schedule a daily meeting to review and learn various tools that perform necessary tasks of collecting, analyzing and prioritizing data Delegating tasks to them and then reviewing their work with them and later on teaching on how to improve their work (includes presentation, preparing documents etc..) Asking them to join in the meetings as a shadow and showing them how to handle various types of meetings Asking them to perform certain tasks based on real world past scenario"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

Raoul S. - "Total number of successful conversations (Weekly). Success measured by sharing AI output or success indicators (e.g. Like)"See full answer

Mark B. - "Questions and Clarifications: Monitoring can mean a few things- Location, vital signs, fluids did you have something in mind or should I pick? -> You should pick Should I assume I am acting as google or a startup -> You pick -> well google has a mission to organize the world's data, and well being data may play well with either the google health or google home systems. I will act as google I am going to initially focus on the US market, as other markets may have different cultural expectatio"See full answer