Interview Questions

Preethi R. - "A peer-to-peer car rental is a 2-sided marketplace, with two types of users : 1) those who want to rent a car (demand), 2) those looking to rent out their car (supply). So, there are two main challenges for us to solve for through our MVP: 1) the classic (critical mass) marketplace problem of ensuring enough demand and supply. Either side will not find the product useful unless, there is enough of the other group of users, 2) In the case of peer-to-peer car rental, we are also trying to change u"See full answer

Promise S. - "Submitted before deadline and described the creativity behind the new website"See full answer

Madeline S. - "I like Spotify, because Spotify has a social element and an element of community that other music apps do not. The ability to see what friends are listening to, make playlists/jams with friends, and enjoy the "wrapped" at the end of the year (which is also an incredible social sharing tactic), is what sets it apart from other apps."See full answer

Rahul S. - "I have a 10 years experience"See full answer

Priya J. - "User groups - Elderly People People with physical disabilities Blind people Hikers The cane required for each group is different. Elderly and People with physical disabilities are using it for support, and hence their cane has to be more stable and static. The cane for blind people is very lightweight because they use it to find any hurdle on their way The cane for hikers is mostly for support but lightweight because they cannot carry heavyweights cane while hiking. Thinking about the blind"See full answer

UoP - "What goals would you set for Reels recommendation engine? Clarification: Is this Reels on Instagram, FB? Which ones do you mean? -Instagram What does this feature cover- Reels recommendation engine- showcases a new video to the user when tapped User can Like, comment , add reel to the story, remix this reel, save, report, not interested Why is this done? Competition from Tiktok : Make Reels appealing to Meta userbase so that Meta doesn't lose users, creators, brands to TikTok Mission "See full answer

Parth S. - "Assuming that trades will have information like trade_type buy or sell trade_price with these tuples, one can iterate over each trade while maintaining a stack which maintains all the open buy trades. If we encounter a sell trade then we pop one element make it a buy/sell pair and calculate the profit/loss for that pair. Moreover, keep adding pair-wise profit/loss to calculate overall profit as we continue iterating over trades. At the end print pairs and their profit/loss along with"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

Exponent - "This is another Diagnosis problem. To answer this question, we suggest you use our framework (along with the TROPIC method) to be as thorough as possible. The framework is as follows: Ask clarifying questions List potential high level reasons Gather Context (TROPIC)Time Region Other features / products (internal) Platform Industry / Competition Cannibalization Establish a theory of probable cause Test theories Propose solutions Summarize "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

Jalpa S. - "def containSubString(mainString, SubString): s1 = "hello world" # main String s2 = "hello" s3 = "world" s4 = "Nothing" answer1 = containSubString(s1, s2) answer2 = containSubString(s1, s3) answer3 = containSubString(s1, s4) print(answer1 , answer2, answer) "See full answer

BC - "Continuous learning is a core value of mine; I want to positively impact others starting from the people around me. That means, supporting my coworkers, a team, and an organization that is committed to thoughtfully solving and resolving others pain points. As long as design is able to open these opportunities for me, I plan to continue walking this path with the end goal of seeing how this attitude can blossom, influence, and compound at scale."See full answer

José N. - "My clarifying questions : what's the impact of the bug ? / responses : intermittent, no platform stability at risk, but a feature, many customer rely on this buggy feature what's the estimation of the user impacted ? / responses : 65% of the users how long to figure out a solution ? / reponses : 1 week My action plan : delay the publish of the release in order to protect the brand identity and customer trust talk to the big customer to explain the situation with transparency and nego"See full answer

Ak - "First, I'd like to ask a few clarifying questions: Do you have any specific user segment in mind or i can choose? A: you can choose Should we think about mobile rather than website? A: you can choose, choose mobile because of growth in usage across the glob Do you have any specific objectives in mind or i can choose? A: you can choose Is this app stand alone or part of broader Facebook ecosystem ? Part of Facebook Facebook mission is to give people power to build community and bring"See full answer