Interview Questions

Judy W. - "Clarifying questions What do you mean by “mattress”? All types and sizes of mattress? Are we only looking at mattress in the household or includes the service industry? Assumption Assume that we are looking at mattress in the household only. Assume that the number of people who own more than one mattress is negligibly small relative to the total US population. Figure that 20% of people are couple and are sharing beds, and 5% are newborns sleeping with their parents. **Appro"See full answer

Esther S. - "During planning phase, I've noticed that under several initiatives there were many gaps around clarity and what was the ask. So I've synced with Product and Eng to gather more detailed info, found what was missing (such as why we're doing this, what are dependent teams, etc) and reached out to other teams who might be the dependent teams to get more info from their side. This required not just our engineering teams but other engineering teams that owned that domain, as well as another team for t"See full answer

Brody C. - "Honestly, I was a bit all over the place with this one. My structure was: Meta Mission Audiences Thinking about journeys and pain points (TAM + Unmet Needs) Brainstorm solutions Prioritize solutions MVP - Measure of success Risks and tradeoffs The interviewer kept trying to derail the conversation. I chose Group Volunteers (a group of people who want to volunteer together) as the audience, and in hindsight it was a poor choice. Because I chose that over individuals, I couldn't narrow down"See full answer

Rahul J. - "Problem statement The water heater can currently be controlled only physically i.e. the user must be present infront of the heater to manage it. Key value proposition The user must be able to control the water heater remotely using an app (preferably via their mobile phone) Target geo: USA, OS: both Android and iOS, Form factor: Mobile Target market Water heaters are used by everyone who lives in an area experiencing temperatures < 20 degree Celsius. The user uses the water heater eve"See full answer

Emily T. - "Solution picked: a half software half hardware remote control"See full answer

A S. - "Clarified with interviewer: How it is used ? user will give facebook page of school as input What is the criteria for declaring school as duplicate ? same name and location used exposed APIs of parent service to create and maintain a inverted index [msg queue+spark]. Duplicate matching service will use elastic search [and filter out input school page]. Elastic will search and return results of school name and geospatial matching ."See full answer

Ayush kumar S. - "I submitted a PRD as it was a take home assignment."See full answer

Priyanka D. - "Clarifying Questions: Are we not being able to see any data at all ? or are we not seeing the latest updated data? In either case I can categorize this problem with 3 causes System Issue Is it a be a production bug , where node failure happened? (data load failure) Did our event-engine schedule re-runs fail to run code that fetches underlying data? Are the Dynamics team making some design changes on the tool which may go live and have triggered the DB not being refreshed ? A"See full answer

Prachi N. - "In my second project first testing phase, I noticed that many teammates were not fully aware of the dependencies between different objects. This caused delays because one team often had to wait for another without realizing it. To address this, I came up with the idea of creating a visual flowchart that mapped out all the dependencies in a simple way. Additionally, I developed a dashboard that showed real-time updates: which dependencies were completed, which objects were still pending,"See full answer

Swati A. - "My Name is swati i joined genpact in 2014 and from there i have spend 4 years in Audit & SOX Compliances and then next 5 years with investment accounting, my overall experience is good as per the expectation now looking for something more exciting to add in my carrier journey."See full answer