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Asked at Google • 5 years ago
Explain how to design an algorithm to source data from the USDA and display it on Google Nutrition.
Technical
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Asked at Waymo • 5 years ago
If given two strings, each containing a number larger than 32-bit, how do you add them and return the result as a string?
Data Structures & Algorithms
Coding
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"add two strings `"
Jonathan michael J. - "add two strings `"See full answer
Data Structures & Algorithms
Coding
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Asked at Google • 4 years ago
What advice would you give to a new restaurant looking to increase revenue?
BizOps & Strategy
Product Strategy
2 answers I was asked this
"Would be great to order the answer by Pirate Metrics and prioritize recommendations by the leakiest part of the funnel: Awareness - Advertising the existence of the restaurant in the local community. Acquisition - Getting tables booked. Can you book online? Do we have a phone number? Activation - Food orders. What's the average size of an order? Can we change the menu a bit? Payment options. Retention - Maybe we can create a loyalty club for patrons? Referral - Maybe we can give coupon"
Anonymous Sheep - "Would be great to order the answer by Pirate Metrics and prioritize recommendations by the leakiest part of the funnel: Awareness - Advertising the existence of the restaurant in the local community. Acquisition - Getting tables booked. Can you book online? Do we have a phone number? Activation - Food orders. What's the average size of an order? Can we change the menu a bit? Payment options. Retention - Maybe we can create a loyalty club for patrons? Referral - Maybe we can give coupon"See full answer
BizOps & Strategy
Product Strategy
Asked at Meta • 4 years ago
You are PM in Meta, What is the goal for Facebook Pay in next 6months or 1 years? How would you think about tacking?
Product Manager
Analytical
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Analytical
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Asked at Amazon, Twitter • a year ago
Design a Tic Tac Toe game that allows remote play.
Software Engineer
System Design
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Software Engineer
System Design

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Asked at Amazon • 5 years ago
Launch a services marketplace for Amazon users.
Product Strategy
Program Sense
2 answers I was asked this
"Vision of Amazon: One stop place for users' buying needs - products and services. Goal of Amazon: Increase wallet share of users or engagement from users. Why services: Services would help achieving this goal, as the users would love using services. And Users need a platform to access services. Market in consideration: India (it is big enough. I am more familiar with this market) Current market landscape: Competition: A couple of marketplaces for services. Similar"
Sanchit G. - "Vision of Amazon: One stop place for users' buying needs - products and services. Goal of Amazon: Increase wallet share of users or engagement from users. Why services: Services would help achieving this goal, as the users would love using services. And Users need a platform to access services. Market in consideration: India (it is big enough. I am more familiar with this market) Current market landscape: Competition: A couple of marketplaces for services. Similar"See full answer
Product Strategy
Program Sense
Asked at Google • 4 years ago
Design an app for cinema.
Product Manager
Product Design
1 answer I was asked this
"goal : user experience CUJ for cinema : Part A : deciding to watch a movie read reviews for movies that have released check nearby cinemas that are showing that movie check with friends/family who want to go with you find tickets online at a nearby cinema (if its a hit movie, you better hurry) buy tickets online split price on an app like split wise Part B : physically arriving at the theatre arrive at cinema hall find parking show e-ticket to enter stand i"
Ananya M. - "goal : user experience CUJ for cinema : Part A : deciding to watch a movie read reviews for movies that have released check nearby cinemas that are showing that movie check with friends/family who want to go with you find tickets online at a nearby cinema (if its a hit movie, you better hurry) buy tickets online split price on an app like split wise Part B : physically arriving at the theatre arrive at cinema hall find parking show e-ticket to enter stand i"See full answer
Product Manager
Product Design
Asked at Google • 5 years ago
Tell me about a time when you took an idea to launch.
Behavioral
1 answer I was asked this
"Launched a new variant of credit card loaded with Health and Wellness Benefit"
Sanket W. - "Launched a new variant of credit card loaded with Health and Wellness Benefit"See full answer
Behavioral
Asked at Pinterest • 2 years ago
Explain the differences between ReLU and Sigmoid.
Machine Learning Engineer
Concept
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"Relu = 0 if > some threshold else x sigmoid normalizes to 0-1 asymptotically"
William M. - "Relu = 0 if > some threshold else x sigmoid normalizes to 0-1 asymptotically"See full answer
Machine Learning Engineer
Concept
Asked at Amazon, Google • 4 years ago
Tell me about your recent role.
Technical Program Manager
Behavioral
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"delete"
David P. - "delete"See full answer
Technical Program Manager
Behavioral
Asked at Google • 4 years ago
Design a system for doctors to upload X-rays and get ML results for preliminary diagnosis.
Technical Program Manager
System Design
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Technical Program Manager
System Design
Asked at Dropbox • 2 years ago
Design a module to fetch a unique User ID from a pool of available User IDs and return the ID to the pool for later use.
Software Engineer
Technical
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"The first part is to design with either a linked list of IDs or an array of boolean values. The second part is to optimize both time and memory."
Seamus L. - "The first part is to design with either a linked list of IDs or an array of boolean values. The second part is to optimize both time and memory."See full answer
Software Engineer
Technical
Asked at Anthropic, Remitly • 5 months ago
How would you launch a new product to our existing user base?
Product Manager
Behavioral
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Product Manager
Behavioral
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Asked at Google • 5 years ago
Estimate the cost to replace lost street view data for Google Maps in NY.
Behavioral
Estimation
2 answers I was asked this
"open a social media challenge to share their street view. It will cost 0"
Sushma R. - "open a social media challenge to share their street view. It will cost 0"See full answer
Behavioral
Estimation
Asked at Amazon • 5 years ago
Develop an email service for checkout experience that confirms orders.
Product Design
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Product Design
Asked at Google • 5 years ago
Estimate the total time wasted in meetings across the US.
Behavioral
Concept
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"25 min"
Yasin E. - "25 min"See full answer
Behavioral
Concept
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Asked at LinkedIn • 5 years ago
LinkedIn PM Discussion Board
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"Is there a take-home exercise? How important is it and will there be questions on your take-home during subsequent rounds?"
Mitchell K. - "Is there a take-home exercise? How important is it and will there be questions on your take-home during subsequent rounds?"See full answer
Explain the differences between multithreading and multiprocessing.
Data Engineer
Concept
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"a process can include many threads. good for concurrent and parallel task execution"
Erjan G. - "a process can include many threads. good for concurrent and parallel task execution"See full answer
Data Engineer
Concept
Asked at Microsoft • 2 years ago
Explain the differences between L1 and L2 regression.
Machine Learning Engineer
Concept
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Machine Learning Engineer
Concept
Asked at Bolt, Google • 3 years ago
How would you launch a scheduled rides feature for Uber or Lyft?
Product Manager
Analytical
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"Need for this feature : A user who has to reach somewhere on time - probably someone commuting to the airport would use this feature. I would pilot this feature in a city where there is a high volume of users using uber to commute to the airport, as well as a high volume of drivers, so that we deliver on what we promise. There are 2 side to this - the end user side, and the driver side. To measure the success of this application, primarily, I would track the number of users who are booking sched"
Aishwarya R. - "Need for this feature : A user who has to reach somewhere on time - probably someone commuting to the airport would use this feature. I would pilot this feature in a city where there is a high volume of users using uber to commute to the airport, as well as a high volume of drivers, so that we deliver on what we promise. There are 2 side to this - the end user side, and the driver side. To measure the success of this application, primarily, I would track the number of users who are booking sched"See full answer
Product Manager
Analytical
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