Interview Questions

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

Sri H. - "First of all, are some of these hypothetical questions? Anyway, I'd start by asking what's a "Video feature" ;-)"See full answer

Lucas G. - "I would conduct a sample z-test because we have enough samples and the population variance is known. H1: average monthly spending per user is $50 H0: average monthly spending per user is greater $50 One-sample z-test x_bar = $85 mu = $50 s = $20 n = 100 x_bar - mu / (s / sqrt(n) = 17.5 17.5 is the z-score that we will need to associate with its corresponding p-value. However, the z-score is very high, so the p-value will be very close to zero, which is much less than the standa"See full answer

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

Anonymous Moose - "Clarifying Questions: Why does Meta want to build this product ? {Aligns with Meta's mission of connecting people} What's the goal ? Does Meta want to monetise this initiative in any way? {It wants to increase the total number of users using this platform and then in the mid-term increase engagement} User Groups: Young (20-40), tech-savvy working professional; seeking doctor consultation for self, friends and family members (First) Older mass (50+), seeking frequent and accessible doct"See full answer

Musonda C. - "TCP and UDP are ways in which data is transferred over the internet. TCP needs to have a connection between the two hosts in order for data to be transferred, while UDP begin the transfer without waiting for a connection between the two hosts. This makes UDP faster, but not as reliable as TCP because there is a chance the data transfer wont happen in UDP due to the uncertainty of the connection. TCP is used where reliable data transfer is crucial e.g file transfers, email, web browsing and UDP"See full answer

Connor W. - "This video is a duplicate of the other video in this lesson, "Design A/B test for New Campaign""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

Exponent - "You should be able to identify this as a Strategy Question, which asks you to justify high-level business decisions and strategy. Be concise and to the point. > The underlying theme I can see in these services is that they all encourage people to start online businesses. This helps Stripe since their main product is the ability to handle online transactions. Stripe takes a percentage fee from each transaction, so it's in their best interest to encourage the growth of internet-enabled busines"See full answer

Adib M. - "Manage Programs that are in flight Track the progress vs Plan and see if things are on track, falling behind Monitor Risks and update current and any new risks identified and mitigation approach Communicate updates to stakeholders (weekly/biweekly as agreed) Communicate status to peer TPM and partnering teams Daily sync with Engg (like a timeboxed daily Standup to understand Daily Plan and any impediments raised that need resolving) Facilitate Reviews with Product Manager as features"See full answer

Anzhe M. - "Not my answer, but rather the details of this question. It should include the following functions: int insertNewCustomer(double revenue) -> returns a customer ID (assume auto-incremented & 0-based) int insertNewCustomer(double revenue, int referrerID) -> returns a customer ID (assume auto-incremented & 0-based) Set getLowestKCustomersByMinTotalRevenue(int k, double minTotalRevenue) -> returns customer IDs Note: The total revenue consists of the revenue that this customer bring"See full answer