Interview Questions

Prasad M. - "The first aspect to review before any task is who is/are the ultimate 'owner' for this job? The next thing to consider is 'repetitiveness' of the job itself. The job can be simple or complex. For simple and the ownership factor align with my team... then that task is delegated. If the job is complex and the team ultimately owns the task, then I provide careful support to guide in the right direction."See full answer

S K. - "Clarifying questions: Location: Mountian view campus. [Google has campuses across the world and for the interview purpose design the product for Mountian view campus] Assumption : Scope of the design is on-campus travel purpose between buildings. Product: Digital product Target Customer segments Meetings: Googlers who takes bikes to commute to a different build for meetings. a. Goal: On-Time for meetings Lunch or breakfast: Lunch spot co-ordinat"See full answer

Exponent - "This is a Design a Product question. For this, we'll want to follow the formula for success: Ask clarifying questions Identify user types, behaviors, and pain points State the goal and use cases List current solutions Improvements / net new solutions Evaluate and select solutions Measure Success Summarize Ask clarifying questions It's important to get clarity on anything unclear. Asking questions also helps us limit scope early on s"See full answer

Raviraj P. - "i) Understanding the Scope: Clarifying Questions: Target Audience : i) Who are the target end customers?: High net worth individuals, businesses, mid/low worth individuals, ii) Who are the target auctioneers: i) Large auction houses, mid/small size auction houses Auction Capabilities: i) Offline/online/Hybrid bidding, ii) The platform should be a white label offering for auction houses or we will host the platform Key Features: What are the mandatory features in the MVP? i) live bidding, prox"See full answer

David I. - "As I understand it, you’d like me to design a mobile native application (for iOS or Android) that helps people manipulate data similar to that of Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets. You can add and import data, edit it, run calculations, regressions, and generate charts and graphs. If it’s ok with you, I’d like to confine the design to iOS, and based on my knowledge of how a product manager uses a spreadsheet. I’d like to approach this problem by first identifying the goal of the app. Since we’r"See full answer

Umaira K. - "If I get to live my life again I will try to be more confident, it took me a life time to get some confidence and to be what I am today, I ll try to be less dependent on others, I ll work for women empowerment."See full answer

Abdurhman M. - "To determine what predictions to show, our systems look for common queries that match what someone starts to enter into the search box but also consider:"See full answer

Exponent - "This question is a Diagnosis Question. It's used to test your ability to perform root cause analysis (RCA), identify many possible issues, come up with a theory of probable cause, and address how you would solve this issue. A drop in video engagement can signify either a technical issue (the video player is broken) or a product issue (recommendations performing poorly). Let's follow the template for answering Diagnosis Questions: Ask clarifying questions **List potential high level"See full answer

Vince 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

Anonymous Shrimp - "Let's assume that the school furniture includes Table, Chair and Whiteboard. Now, the first step is to find the number of students in the U.S Let's assume that the population of the U.S is 300M. Let's assume that Americans start education at 5 years old till 25 for undergrad. It means Americans spend 20 years of their life in school. Average living years for people is 80. 20/80 * 100 = 25%. It means 25% of the American population attends college. 25/100*300M = 75M. So, there are 75M students"See full answer

Nicholas S. - "Definitely nice to think of this without memorization, but there is a well known algorithm for this problem, which is the Levenshtein Distance. Lev(a,b) = len(a) if len(b) == 0 = len(b) if len(a) == 0 = lev(a[1:], b[1:] if a[0] == b[0] = 1 + min (lev(a, b[1:]), lev(a[1:], b), lev(a[1:], b[1:])) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance I'm sure some optimizations could be made with heuristic."See full answer

Yamaan B. - "Since the coffee needs to be brewed in space, we cannot rely on gravity to pull the water down through the coffee grounds. Fortunately, there are other brewing techniques that can be used that do not rely on gravity. A lot of novelty coffee is brewed by forcing water through densely packed coffee grounds with pressure. This removes the requirement of gravity. If we have a plunger system with coffee grounds between a screen on the bottom, and water on top, we can use a plunger to push the water t"See full answer

Anonymous Beaver - "Clarifying questions: Reason to add this feature? No particular reason but let's assume it's an industry practice Any resource constraints? None for now I am assuming all furniture sold on the site is Wayfair's and not sold by third parties? Yes Approach: Industry, company and product profile and target audience Wayfair is a e-commerce company selling furniture. Direct competitors are other online only businesses like amazon. Indirect competition include physical stores like home depot/l"See full answer