Interview Questions

Jack F. - "One feature I launched was a construction draw process enhancement for loans ranging from $15MM to $60MM In response to the need for improved efficiency and accuracy in managing construction loan disbursements, I led the development and implementation of a streamlined process within our banking platform. Working closely with stakeholders, including borrowers and internal teams, I gathered requirements and identified pain points in the existing process. Leveraging my expertise in data analysis a"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

Rishabh N. - "I first asked few clarifying questions like the return array may need not contain the list of building in the same order, to which the interviewer agreed. Then I came up with an approach where we iterate the array from right to left and keep a max variable which will keep the value of the current max. When we find an item which is greater than max we update the max and add this element into our solution. The interviewer agreed for the approach. I discussed few corner scenarios with the interview"See full answer

Alvin P. - "SELECT e1.empid AS manageremployee_id, e1.empname AS managername, COUNT(e2.empid) AS numberofdirectreports FROM employees AS e1 INNER JOIN employees AS e2 ON e2.managerid = e1.empid GROUP BY e1.emp_id HAVING COUNT(e2.emp_id) >= 2 ORDER BY numberofdirectreports DESC, managername ASC `"See full answer

Ranjani M. - "What is the goal of this product? If its engagement for the people in a flight, can other options be explored? If there is a particular business insistence for hangman for engagement, the following can be the features of the game: Pain point: Typing might be hard Feature: Connect with phone keyboard to enable typing Pain point: These games do not engage multiple people simultaneously. Have leaderboards and multiplayer duels where the game is designed to hang the other player in case of a"See full answer

Bhagya D. - "Situation: Narrated about a time when the decision favored the most important customer, but appeared to be at the cost of diluting my own company's brand value. Context: Provided additional context around why the ask from the customer is very critical for the customer. And why my leadership wasn't ready to jump on the gun as it was cannibalistic to our brand value. Response: I used data to explain why it is not going to be a big blow to our brand value. Used a counter metric to show that we h"See full answer

Nick S. - "[I'm not sure whether the answer below is the best, as I have not gotten result and feedback from my interview] Ans: I would solve by first using a VAE-style model, to create a latent space embedding that translates user description to generate images. Training would be done on the 1000 avatar images and 100000 descriptions, following this scheme: VAE: description -> encoder -> latent space -> decoder -> image Q: "OK, but that means you're limiting the generated images to be only the 1000 imag"See full answer

Kumar - "I would like to understand more about the problem by asking a few clarifying questions: What do you mean by smart? Is it a digital frame i.e there’s a digital screen in the frame that show’s a photo? Is it connected to internet? Do we have any constraints? Time, Money, Resources, Design? Assumptions I am making before going ahead: It is a frame that can show a photo on a digital screen within the frame The only constraint is that we want to get it to market soon and test if we can g"See full answer

Exponent - "This is an Improve a Product question. 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 Before we begin listing off recommendations, it's important you ask questions to ensure you and the interviewer are on the same page"See full answer

Abel alejandro H. - "I asked for clairication on what region in the world we were focusing on and I settled on the United States. I asked for clarification on the type of doctors and for what kind of patients and that was left up to me. I landed on any patient looking to find a doctor for "Preventive Medicine" given that the US is hurting on that. The pain points were around expensive/payment methods, access & lacking knowledge to know what kind of doctor is best for each person. I spent too much time here and had l"See full answer

Rajeev K. - "I’ve spent over 6 years building and scaling e-commerce products across EMEA and APAC. At Jumia, I led product initiatives on the checkout and payments side. For example, I launched gamified promotions on PDP and checkout that improved engagement and delivered a 2.3x uplift in conversion. I also introduced automated installment payments and order cancellation flows, which not only improved user trust but also reduced complaints by 30% and lowered operational costs. Before that, at Lazada, I work"See full answer