Interview Questions

Julien C. - "👇 Your feedback is very much appreciated 👇 Clarifying Questions Bookshelf: how is this bookshelf going to be used? at home? in a library? Elderly People: do we have more precisions on this elderly population? are they sick?disabled? [Interviewer: this bookshelf will be for home purposes. You'll have to specify.] Here's what we gonna do: Users & Pain Points: let's try to better understand who we are designing this bookshelf for Solutions: we'll brainstorm a few solutions and"See full answer

Surbhi G. - "My preference would likely be server-side deployment given the specification of millions of users. However, it is worth considering a hybrid model too; where basic, non-sensitive, and less compute intensive tasks are processed on the client-side, while the heavy-duty processing is done on the server side. The main advantage of client-side deployment is it can work in real-time and offline. It also significantly reduces the load on your servers, making it more efficient in handling other tasks. N"See full answer

Sahil A. - "Clarifying question: By high-tech, we mean internet enabled refrigerator which uses technology and assists us in our decision making or takes decisions for us Users: Working women Homemakers Bachelors and Spinsters living alone Other family members (Elderly, Kids etc) Prioritized users: Working women, Bachelors and Spinsters living alone Problems: Food left in the refrigerator gets rotten as it goes out of notice I am at the supermarket and I dont know the inven"See full answer

Erjan G. - "this task is misleading . i used lag(1) and lead(1) cuz it did not say "compare temperature from 2 days before and 1 day before" , it reads to me as if its asking "compare cur temperature to prev and future and see if it rose and fall""See full answer

Mark - "Clarifying questions: What's Airbnb goal in making this requirement? Are we talking about the listing for Airbnb's core business - lodging? Approach: Before we dive in, it would be beneficial for us to first discuss our base understanding of Airbnb's business, who are the user segments that this feature can impact, and some hypothesis on what Airbnb's goal should be Once we define the goal of this feature, we can go over our approach on how we will evaluate whether we should make"See full answer

Tanu M. - "Google Home is an app that is used by consumers to configure the smart devices for automating their home and making their home more reliable and easy to use. Clarifying questions : Do we have any time constraints by when we need to achieve this? IF we have to increase sales by 10x, it needs to focus on number of factors like increasing the partner base, improving user experience, and shift in thinking. What metrics we focus on Monetization - Making revenue 10x Number 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

Raghuveer K. - "AirBnB Mission: to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. In my view the Airbnb achieves the above goal by accomodating travellers in locals houses. Thus the traveller not only gets a place at a cheaper price to live in but also can interact and understand the local culture than in a professional setting like a hotel. Purpose or need for the product and how it can tie back to the goal: The best way to belong anywhere and have a best experience of a particular place depends on several"See full answer

Anonymous Owl - "def flatten_dictionary(dictionary): \# return a flattened dictionary - int/string/another dictionary values \# if the key is empty, exclude from the output \# concat using a "." btwn them \# add to res which is { "key.a.b.etc": "value" } \# iterate through the key value pairs \# while there is a key value pair in the value \# continue going through that, until the value is an int/string flatDic = {} flatDicHelper("", dictionary, flatDic) print(flatDic) return flatDic def flatDicHelper(initialKey"See full answer