Analytical Interview Questions

Hans - "Described a bug I found on an app designed for a specific make of tablet. In this sequence I described: The app the bug was found in The priority and severity of the bug That it was a regression to an existing working piece of functionality The hardware and the firmware on the device the bug occurred on The steps that led to me finding the bug and how it manifested itself Talked about how we debugged from the point of view of: Code Component Deployed application Comparison to"See full answer

Niji R. - "General Approach: In a funnel, prospects that dropped off at the very end just before conversion are the ones that were most likely to convert simply because they went through the effort of going through multiple steps to advance to the very end of the funnel. The more the prospects advances through the funnel, better their probability of converting. I'd therefore focus more on reducing drop-offs at the final stages of the funnel for better conversion. Caveats: There are certain use-cases where"See full answer

Amruta P. - "Couple of clarifying questions here before I begin. Is my assumption right that we would like to prioritize requests/features? Do we have any specific constraints to consider before we move ahead. as in resourcing constraints, schedule or budget constraints or should we just factor in as part of our overall approach, if not then General approach for prioritization: Understand the business objectives and see if the features aligns with the business objectives. The features that have the h"See full answer

Anonymous Crayfish - "Let me tell you about a time when I solved a problem at my previous company (one of the top 10 Fortune 500 companies). This was an internship and I was coming with almost 2 years of experience and 2 semesters of my graduate program. My experiences have mostly been theoretical or with startups. I've never solved problems at scale. The first week at this team was slow and relaxed, it was just onboarding. The real work started from the 2nd week when I felt like I was pushed into the ocean with n"See full answer

Anonymous Cheetah - "First profile the URL/Webpage to see which components are limiting/blocking the loading of Web page. Based on the observation, identify if it is the latency, server, network or the sheer number of elements that make up the page. Accordingly plan the optimization strategy."See full answer

Sampada J. - "Clarifying question- Current pricing model at lyft? So there is already some kind of dynamic pricing happening at lyft as depending on different factors like distance, driver availability, time of day, seasonality etc. the prices would change Hypothesis- I want to focus on real-time dynamic pricing. What I mean by that is that I want to have another option while booking a ride on lyft where the price for the ride is not shown upfront as the user is booking. Instead this option would basica"See full answer

M N. - "To clarify, Lyft currently uses dynamic pricing which means the price of a ride is not constant and depends on multiple factors. Let's keep only the car rides on Lyft with driver-rider as customers in the current scope and ignore other product offerings such as bikes, scooters. Should we improve the current dynamic pricing model or design dynamic pricing assuming it doesn't exist? Let's assume latter. Let's assume this dynamic pricing applies to entire US market. Now let's see what factors I"See full answer

Mark - "Clarifying questions: what's the original goal of this feature? what user problem / issues we identified that we are trying to address? Is there a particular user base or market/regions that we are trying to solve this issue for? Is the experience going to impact the rider's action? or does it also change the driver experience? Assume: the issue we are solving for is focus on the rider's experience - the goal of this feature is to increase the % of matched ride (ie rider/driver matche"See full answer

Himanshu V. - "Video engagement: time spent, frequency, recency Video completion rate Time spent on Facebook vs Time spent on watching FB videos Video recommendation: Switching from 1st to 2nd and so on "See full answer

Jim T. - "In the end I said number of bookings, but explained how I would get there. I talked about the company's mission first (which I didn't know but guessed it was something about making it easier or more accessible for people to travel) and then talked about a few potential metrics that could fit (bookings, NPS, etc). But in the end I explained that number of bookings is not only tied to their core value proposition, but it also reflected a happy customer base on both sides of the transaction (renter"See full answer

Yulia D. - "First, I would like to ask some clarifying questions. Are we talking about the business metrics dashboard or health metrics(like response time)? - it is up to you Do I understand right that Netflix is a subscription-based video streaming service for watchers? So I know that they create original content for Netflix, but it is out of the scope of this question. - right My approach will be to: Define the business goal from Netflix’s mission Break down the actions taken by users at each stage of the"See full answer

Anonymous Possum - "There's good research and data behind the DORA metrics. Enough worth trying out with your team and evaluating the results."See full answer

kkkt - "Me: First let's clarify the user journey of the Facebook dating app Interviewer: Me: Do we know how success is defined in this context? Interviewer: Please figure that out yourself Me: Ok let's first discuss the mission of Facebook and how Facebook dating app is part of that. Then lets brainstorm what the goals would be for Facebook Dating. That help us determine the user behavior and metrics we can create. Finally let's fi"See full answer

Ruth J. - "Provided an overview of IG Search and the value it provides for users Gave 3 metrics that I would consider when determining success Shared the metric that I would use as the north star Got a follow up question. If users were clicking on irrelevant results from their search would that affect your metrics and how would you deal with that Do you think it is a bad thing if users use search to search for something, get irrelevant results and perform an action based on that?"See full answer

Exponent - "This is another Diagnosis problem. To answer this question, we suggest you use our framework (along with the TROPIC method) to be as thorough as possible. The framework is as follows: Ask clarifying questions List potential high level reasons Gather Context (TROPIC)Time Region Other features / products (internal) Platform Industry / Competition Cannibalization Establish a theory of probable cause Test theories Propose solutions Summarize "See full answer

Ankit J. - "The goal is to determine which shows get promoted to the home screen i.e the screen the user sees after launching Netflix. There are two ways to promote shows today; Editorially - the editorial team selects the categories and shows to be shown to the users Algorithmically - based on the historical views and contextual information such as location, time of the year, age, etc the recommendation algorithm determines a list of shows to show on the screen. The higher level goal for Netflix is o"See full answer

Anna H. - "Clarifying questions: How to define “price” in this interview question? Price is defined as the market value of a crypto asset (bitcoin, Ethereum, tether, BNB etc.). Due to the characteristic of crypto assets which is time-sensitive, is this designed for a particular period of time? 1H, 1D, 1W, 1M, 1Y? No Do we know the target customer segment given geographic location or demographic? Not specific. Is it designed across devices? Mobile app. Assumptions: There are 03 cu"See full answer