Interview Questions

Simii V. - "In a situation where I feel stressed out, stuck, and lost, I prefer to take a step back and reflect upon what is causing me stress. I list down the factors and try to first acknowledge that it is okay to be stressed, then I try to find the shortest step I could take which is in my control to destress myself.Then I to unravel the problem and find a solution. If need be, I go out and discuss my problem with friends, colleagues and my mentors depending on the nature of the problem. Most importantly"See full answer

Nasit S. - "Depend on the array size and number of 0's theere."See full answer

Abhinav C. - "Clarifying Questions Is it for a specific museum or any museum? To start with for a specific museum , we can expand to more museums Which region? Lets say a museum in UK, US or Europe any specific problem you want to solve? nothing specific What is the objective or goal of the app? You can choose Goal : To enhance the experience of visiting the museum and increase footfall in the long run through word of mouth / referrals Users : Museum Visitors Painpoints / Use Cases :- 1) For l"See full answer

Priyanka D. - "Spotify is a music application that allows users to listen to music, create their own playlists, share songs, recommend songs based on their listening patterns etc. Clarifying questions: Goal - Improve engagement and provide blind people with a platform to listen to music as they miss out on a lot of aspects of life. The main idea is to promote more inclusivity Same app or different - Same app Time or resource constraints: No Spotify has music creators and music listeners who are we"See full answer

Samarth S. - "Before we jump into discussion , few Qs which come to my mind in order to narrow the scope are: What kind of security system we are thinking . What do we want to achieve? Is there any biz goal in mind. What security related pain points are we trying to solve. What is the kind of hotel - is it a vacation rental , standalone hotel, highway motel, big chain resorts? What are the current systems being used. I think most of hotels have closed circuit cameras , fire alarms installed in"See full answer

Atefeh M. - "I received an offer to join a well-known company as a senior product manager with very good payment. I was in my third of pregnancy. so if I joined the company, I would have left it in 6th month. So on the conversation with VP of product I told him the situation. He thanked me, and told me that we would wait for you after 2 years from now."See full answer

Amin S. - "We can implement Mall psychology, use the monkey effect, FOMO, top-rated stuff from the same restaurants, bundle offers like couple or group offers, and prompt popups for free delivery if you complete X$ amount by adding X item. We can lure customers by giving free subscriptions to Spotify, Netflix, etc. by collaborating with these giants. This is a long-story-short overview of how we can increase the average basket size. Tracking telemetry and refining can make a difference obviously..."See full answer

Catherine I. - "In keeping with the STAR method, I discussed a mandated change in our vendors where we were swapping one contracting company for another with little time for transition. My actions included leveraging skills of my employees to develop a transition plan so that the transition was minimally disruptive to our projects."See full answer

Anand T. - "Use face recognition as a preliminary step"See full answer

K N. - "Assumptions Contact lens camera is launched only in the US Ages most likely to benefit 20-60 Doesn't work with prescription i.e. people who have prescription glasses/contact lens are not the target market Can't be worn all the time max of 10 hours. Capturing video via contact lens means people have to stare at things uninterrupted. Assuming, no that video stops the moment people close their eyelids video length will be limited to maximum staring"See full answer

Ramagiri P. - "Medallion architecture is a layered data architecture used in lakehouse systems. Data flows through Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers where each layer improves data quality. Bronze stores raw data, Silver contains cleaned and validated datasets, and Gold provides aggregated business-ready data for analytics and reporting bronzedf = spark.read.json("/landing/apidata") bronze_df.write.format("delta").save("/bronze/users")"See full answer

Exponent - "One technique we like to use when explaining technical concepts to non-technical people is to use analogies to help with memory retention. For this type of question, we'll use the Restaurant example: > Imagine you're at a restaurant with a variety of waiters - each waiter will only take your order for one specific item (i.e. one waiter for pizza, one waiter for pasta, etc.). An API is like a waiter in this example as it will only perform a specific order. An SDK on the other hand is like having"See full answer

Gabriele G. - "Using a DFS approach, computing all the distances from typing import List from collections import deque def shortestCellPath(grid: List[List[int]], sr: int, sc: int, tr: int, tc: int) -> int: if sr == tr and sc == tc: return 0 nRows = len(grid) nCols = len(grid[0]) distances = [] stack = deque([(sr, sc, 0)]) visitedSet = set() while stack: nodeR, nodeC, nodeDist = stack.pop() if gridnodeR == 0 or (nodeR, nodeC) in visited"See full answer

Anuradha T. - "Clarifying questions: What kind of users are we talking about? Internal or external ? (Assumption: External) When was this issue discovered? (Not so long ago) Is this specific to a particular geographical location ? (Answer: No) External: Geography, time ? Internal: Pain points: Technical - latency, lag Engagement - Less engagement available on website , users are bored while waiting for their search results to appear Review - Explore platform options for users to review their experie"See full answer