Interview Questions

Indranil G. - "It is NYC so mainly a business area. Also, there will be travelers to visit. Now we estimate that 5% of them are business travelers and 3 % of them are tourist So 8000000*5% = 400000 is Business And 7600000*3% = 228000 is tourist Now we also need to consider there are a family tourist who will use the same room that let us estimate 40% of the tourists are family means 40% * 7988000M = 91200 family and 1368000 is solo travelers 45600 are family room required considering there are 2 fa"See full answer

Anna H. - "Great. I’d like to break down this by discussing impacts of post investment decisions for the Pixel handset lines at two levels of micro and macro evaluation, which will be able to lead us to an evidence-based answer of what I think Google should continue to invest and ramp up their investment to hit their target ROI. First, closely looking at micro aspects, Google’s business model is a so-called multisided platform, generating either free search engines and monetizing contents for Internet use"See full answer

Ananya M. - "I am assuming goal is to improve driving experience for seniors and not solve for transportation between point A to B. A in ananya loves road trips and long drives but when ananya is old and grey she misses going on long drives and road trips . goal : user experience user : physical disability hinders them from getting in and out of car seniors have joint and back pains, they can sit at the same position for longer time eye sight is weak for driving low energy to walk to parking and"See full answer

Kanon A. - "I'd like the phone to send notifications according to one's schedule registered on the calendar app. For example, when I have a plan to hang out with my friends at the restaurant and it is expected to be raining at that time, I want my phone to send a notification saying don't forget to take your umbrella."See full answer

Amparo L. - "Yes I do, we discuss our agendas as a team and then we work together to get the tasks done before our work shift ends."See full answer

Rajeev K. - "I’ve spent over 6 years building and scaling e-commerce products across EMEA and APAC. At Jumia, I led product initiatives on the checkout and payments side. For example, I launched gamified promotions on PDP and checkout that improved engagement and delivered a 2.3x uplift in conversion. I also introduced automated installment payments and order cancellation flows, which not only improved user trust but also reduced complaints by 30% and lowered operational costs. Before that, at Lazada, I work"See full answer

Anonymous Dove - "People interested in travel on Pinterest are looking for inspiration, information, and interaction. They want to discover new places, learn useful tips, and connect with other travelers. To improve their experience, I would suggest the following ideas: Create curated collections of travel pins: Pinterest users love to browse and save pins that match their interests and preferences. By creating curated collections of travel pins, you can showcase the best content from different sources and"See full answer

Exponent - "Before we begin, it's important to understand what the interviewer is testing with this type of question. This is a Strategy Question that tests an interviewee's ability to create compelling arguments from high level information, discern motive, and think strategically. We can split this question into two views: is Spotify's high churn rate okay or not? Let's see the argument that is bad, and then the opposing side. High churn is bad We'll first give the naive argument here — that churn i"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

Reno S. - "func isMatch(text: String, pattern: String) -> Bool { // Convert strings to arrays for easier indexing let s = Array(text.characters) let p = Array(pattern.characters) guard !s.isEmpty && !p.isEmpty else { return true } // Create DP table: dpi represents if s[0...i-1] matches p[0...j-1] var dp = Array(repeating: Array(repeating: false, count: p.count + 1), count: s.count + 1) // Empty pattern matches empty string dp[0]["See full answer

Yuexiang Y. - "A Random Forest works by building an ensemble of decision trees, each trained on a slightly different version of the data. The key mechanism is bagging: for each tree, we sample the training data with replacement (bootstrapping), so every tree sees a different subset of examples. On top of that, at each split the algorithm randomly selects a subset of features, so trees explore different predictors. These two sources of randomness decorrelate the trees. When we aggregate them — by averag"See full answer

Wang L. - "Tagging system - tagging the resources, like tickets, tasks, pages. Support to query based on tags."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

Jayveer S. - "SELECT p1.player_name AS player1, p2.player_name AS player2, ABS(p1.level - p2.level) AS level_disparity FROM players p1 JOIN players p2 ON p1.playername < p2.playername WHERE ABS(p1.level - p2.level) <= 5 ORDER BY level_disparity ASC;"See full answer

Anubhav A. - "Started at 1.48 Clarifying question: Are we interested in a particular lens for this problem? Looking back in history to understand what significant changes did fast internet made in the world: -> Fast Internet - More consumption -> Fast Internet - More Adoption -> Fast Internet - Cheap Internet Let's try to see what kind of things will change in each of these categories. Let me look at it from a lens of an end user (internet consumer uses the internet for work and maintaining their socia"See full answer

Greg Y. - "Thanks for interviewing me!"See full answer