Interview Questions

Chris R. - "It was like say we have a library A which has a library B as a dependency and so on, how would we determine in the dependency chain that whether there is a circular depedency?"See full answer

Medha A. - "DAU and MAU: The number of active users daily and monthly to gauge the content recommended on the home page. Bounce Rate: The percentage of users who navigate away from the site after viewing only the home page. Number of Signups: The number of users who signup after seeing the content on the homepage leading to lower CAC. "See full answer

Exponent - "This is a Measure Success question with a slight twist. The twist here is we need to consider a hypothetical product rather that 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 a"See full answer

Esteban G. - "Mentioned that business category will not be back to previous COVID levels as a result of a systematic shift in the way business is now conducted via zoon calls. Exposed poor customer service and online booking experience as a focus of "things to fix" to improve bookings Suggested to shift (upgrade) the leisure customer segment into the luxury travel experience which was previously the choice of business class. Prioritized fixing customer service digital experience as it is the central spi"See full answer

Mezbaur R. - "Platform team would build platform services that feature teams would be using. For example, the Platform team would set up a CI/CD pipelines that features would use. Another example could be that the platform team would set up Observability solution that feature teams would use to measure app performance and for troubleshooting purpose."See full answer

Andrei S. - "Follow up question was: what is your strategy to sell it?"See full answer

Exponent - "This is an Improve a Product question that's quite specific. Here, we're asking to not only improve Slack, but particularly how they allow collaboration on their platform. Let's first go over the Improve a Product formula: Ask clarifying questions Identify users, behaviors, and pain points State product goal Brainstorm small improvements Brainstorm bolder improvements Measure success Summarize Now, let's begin! Ask clarifying questions"See full answer

Erjan G. - "this task is misleading . i used lag(1) and lead(1) cuz it did not say "compare temperature from 2 days before and 1 day before" , it reads to me as if its asking "compare cur temperature to prev and future and see if it rose and fall""See full answer

Jayveer S. - "SELECT p1.player_name AS player1, p2.player_name AS player2, ABS(p1.level - p2.level) AS level_disparity FROM players p1 JOIN players p2 ON p1.playername < p2.playername WHERE ABS(p1.level - p2.level) <= 5 ORDER BY level_disparity ASC;"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

Chen J. - "Leetcode 347: Heap + Hashtable Follow up question: create heap with the length of K instead of N (more time complexity but less space )"See full answer

Rahul J. - "Target market and pain points to be solved Impact of solving the problem: TAM Existing solutions and their problems Value proposition of my product Costs and resources required in building and maintaining"See full answer

Hiro L. - "Clarification : Criteria: User Journey Potential Use Case: Pain Points: Possible Solutions Tradeoff: Metrices:"See full answer