Interview Questions

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

Ramachandra N. - "from collections import deque from typing import List def longestsubarraydifflessthan_n(nums: List[int], N: int) -> int: """ Find the length of the longest contiguous subarray such that the difference between any two elements in the subarray is less than N. Equivalent condition: max(subarray) - min(subarray) < N Approach (Optimal): Sliding window with two monotonic deques: max_d: decreasing deque of indices (front is index of current max"See full answer

Anonymous Shark - "The other team was depending on the outcome of the release we were working on, since the service end points could not be established, the other team had to reshuffle their plans, and had to plan for uncertainity."See full answer

Parag L. - "I was in my early days of leadership and strategy. In Marriott when a decision was made by C suite to buy products as wrapper over cloud providers I was surprised and based on my limited information and knowledge posted a question to Chief technology officer as why it won't be a good strategy to directly use Native offering from AWS. The reason enlightened me and gave new a new thought process that being such a large enterprise that has presence in 200+ countries across globe we may have challen"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

Ranjani M. - "A refrigerator is used to store food in cold storage to prevent spoilage. If there is nothing specific from the interviewer, I would consider a robotic refrigerator to be a smart fridge that incorporates AI and movement. Clarifying questions: Digital / Physical product or combination Any particular demographic of customers? What is the goal of this product? Only home users to be considered? User cohorts: Families with children: Refrigerator being a common family appliance Couples and ro"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

Rajesh P. - "I talked about how I request filtered using data and friendly escalated to keep the program on track. Also, delved deep into the tech stack to identify the areas where we need extra coverage and negotiated resources to handle those areas."See full answer

K D. - "Clarifying: How many national resources? For example is this a country with a lot of natural resources or very few we want to preserve? How are the other countries? Is there a lot of conflict around the creation of your country? (We will assume everything is perfect and we have unlimited financial resources) Goals: The two main goals of the product as I can see are preservation and enjoyment. Allowing people to enjoy our natural resources and preserving our natural resources. User seg"See full answer

Michael B. - "Use an index, two pointers, and a set to keep track of elements that you've seen. pseudo code follows: for i, elem in enumerate(array): if elem in set return False if i > N: set.remove(array[i-N])"See full answer

Srihitha J. - "my answer: void* memcpy(void* dest, const void* src, size_t n) { unsigned char* uDest = static_cast(dest); const unsigned char* ucSrc = static_cast(src); for(size_t i= 0; i(dest); const unsigned c"See full answer