Interview Questions

Shahrukh K. - "Well, let's see how we can achieve this. Who are YouTube users? Kids students working professionals influencers homemakers Let's pick our user cohort as students. What are students doing on YouTube YouTube learning Entertainment How to increase their session count More relevant content Better recommendation logic Feedback loop to improve recommendation logic Suggestions once they complete a video, save later option, send"See full answer

Georgi S. - "Predicting user behavior generally is hard, unless you incorporate in all your product changes some kind of psychology based trigger or make behavior science-driven changes. For example creating scarcity like Booking.com who tell you that the rooms are about to be booked by someone else, or that others are looking at the property or booking actively today. Otherwise you'd have to rely on A/B testing and feature flags to release and measure the impact of product updates. A/B testing is a statis"See full answer

Exponent - "This is a Fermi problem — an estimation or approximation problem with limited information and back-of-the-envelope calculations. There's no right answer: interviewers want to understand how you think and how well you can explain your reasoning, rather than what you already know. Recall the formula for Fermi problems: Ask clarifying questions Catalog what you know Make equation(s) Think about edge cases to add to equation **Breakdown components of your equat"See full answer

William W. - "Clarifying questions: What do we mean by 'improve'? What part of Peloton's experience are we interested in improving? We want to improve the experience of setting up Peloton equipment after a customer has received it from our transportation provider. Is there a specific piece of equipment we're targeting? Bike, treadmill? Bike Why is Peloton interested in improving this part of the experience? What is the metric we are trying to drive? We have learned that custo"See full answer

Talles S. - "Me: Thanks for this. I have a few clarification questions- what would be the museum? Is this an art museum? A museum with ancient things from across the globe? Is there a specific theme? Interviewer: You can consider that this is a modern art museum like MOMA in New York. Me: Thanks -- and to make sure, do you have any additional specifications in what this product wants to tackle? Specifically, are we trying to make the museum experience better, the ticketing experience better or anything els"See full answer

Exponent - "This is a Measure Success question with a slight twist. The twist here is we need to consider a hypothetical change rather than one already built. This changes our formula slightly - specifically we may not be able to apply a UX flow to drive analysis since we're unsure of the implementation. Instead, we'll look at core behaviors that are indicative of success. Here's the modified formula: Ask clarifying questions State the goal of the feature **Apply a UX flow to drive an"See full answer

Ayan H. - "Let's define the term "everybody" to start with. I can think of a few things: business users want it for certain feature Blackberry had consumers (non-business) users want to use or keep using Blackberry for certain features Interviewer: Business users wanted it. Okay. My assumption would be that business users wanted it for the security features that Blackberry so famously promoted. Here, business users could be the organization buying the phone (such as HP or Google) or the actual e"See full answer

Adem C. - "Go is compiled with llvm so, application run on the OS directly. Hence, java is compiled to bytecode, that means, it needs to be run in JVM and needs to recompile inside the VM. So, theoretically, go is faster than java when they run. But, not sure if practically difference"See full answer