Interview Questions

Gabriele G. - "What about exploiting the hash set and that is it? def smallestSubstring(s: str, t: str) -> str: if len(t) > len(s): return "" r = len(s) - 1 not_found = True while r > 0 and not_found: subs_set = set(s[0:r + 1]) for c in t: if not c in subs_set: not_found = False if not_found: r -= 1 else: r += 1 l = 0 not_found = True while l < r and not_"See full answer

Divya K. - "You will need to start from Browser and go all the way up to Analytic systems and methods. Everything needs to be covered"See full answer

Divya K. - "Explain how you implemented your telemetry and observability in previous projects."See full answer

Sukarma P. - "Asked clarifying questions about any constraints. Defined how the product with functions. Created a price for the product. Defined the user segments and why they might use this product. Prioritized one user persona. Listed down the user's needs and based on that started with the features of the time machine. I couldn't go further because of time constraints."See full answer

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Aimable - "Clarifying question: Is there a goal that we have in mind? Fb mission: empower people to create community and bring the world closer together IG shops as I understand are the marketplace on IG, where users can view items listed for sale by creators/businesses and also search for specific items or categories. Users can actually buy through shops instead of getting navigated to the original business website. IG shop goals: Businesses continue to face the challenges of selling onli"See full answer

Dinesh K. - "i dont know"See full answer

Bini T. - "I understand this is more focused on ML. However, I have a system question. If users allow us to access their location, or they send location via text box, could we use CDNs for the search without hitting our database? We only query the database when we have zero information on location. Other questions: does embedding always guarantee information on location? Do we discharge the user images after we return a prediction? I heard the feedback that we should keep it for future learning. What would"See full answer

Anonymous Capybara - "using a relational database isn't a good choice for this system! we need more availability here than consistency (CAP theorem)"See full answer

Ilnur I. - "I can try to summarize their discussion as I remembered. Linear regression is one of the method to predict target (Y) using features (X). Formula for linear regression is a linear function of features. The aim is to choose coefficients (Teta) of the prediction function in such a way that the difference between target and prediction is least in average. This difference between target and prediction is called loss function. The form of this loss function could be dependent from the particular real"See full answer

Shivastuti K. - "For somebody who needs accessibility accommodation, this doesn't have a transcript so it is not useful to me."See full answer

Charmi S. - "Clarification: Why South Korea and why Google has expanded their yet. I know there are some government security concerns which have bene in place but how is this integration going to expand Is this something like Google Maps itself or is it tailored to particular needs or region Google Mission & Why we want to expand? Google mission is to organize world's information and make it universally available. The Google Map in South Korea aligns with this as it will help people navigate through t"See full answer

Aiden L. - "clarification define a handyman: someone who's paid to do minor renovations or domestic repairs. define the app: standalone or within facebook or meta's app family? why are we designing this? should I come up with a goal (engagement, monetization)? constraints (financials/timeline)? goal: adoption. since it's a new app, i want ppl to adopt first and then monetize the users. I'd define a handyman as someone who's paid by app users to do minor fixes, such as unc"See full answer

Abhijit B. - "Clarifying question- What exactly is this product expected to do ? - are we trying to build a community around people passionate about gardening ? or are we trying to give them better tool and seeds or something else ? Do we have any time or cost constraints ? or any specific business goal we are trying to achieve ? Is this a non profit or a for profit venture ? 2) Users: Which users segment are we trying to go after and what are the pain points ? Is it millennials and gen z or someone in Boom"See full answer

Adib M. - "Ask if the quality aspect is negotiable? Clearly hoping it is not. Then move on to explain nicely about the iron triangle - scope, time, resources. With scope and resources fixed, the time would need to be variable unless the project is considered cookie cutter, the exact project has been done many times in the past. (which is unlikely). If time cannot be relaxed, then the scope should be variable."See full answer

Adib M. - "(1) Discovery: Get to know the stakeholders, PM, Engg team via 1-1. Attend project status meeting where either you are introduced to the stakeholders or actually run it with the goal being to introduce yourself and that you will be catching up on the state of the project in time of the next meeting Understand the Goals of the project and its impact on team and enterprise (2) Planning: Based on current velocity/ burn-rate, estimate what % of the project would be complete at 100% resource uti"See full answer

Shyla R. - "Questions Couple of questions to make sure we are on the same page with respect to my overall product understanding and its positioning in the market. Product understanding: FB Pay is a Payment/ Wallet offering using which customers can securely make peer-to-peer payments using Messenger/WhatsApp or even make purchases on FB / Instagram etc. Also, competitors with similar offerings are Apple Pay, Google Pay (to name a few). Is this a fair understanding of the product? Ans: Yes. Cu"See full answer