Interview Questions

Erjan G. - "a process can include many threads. good for concurrent and parallel task execution"See full answer

Naga M. - "I will compromise on the statistical parameters up to some extent (significance value and test power) and complete the test."See full answer

Neha G. - "lets assume YouTube started 20 years ago. population is 7 billion. let's assume for initial 5 years, there was only 1 percent of the population was using YouTube. That makes 70 million users. only 10 percent of that will be uploading videos. that is 7 million. each person uploaded 10 videos. it will be 70 million. "See full answer

Archana C. - "I was not very confident in my answers. My explanations were round about and I was mostly nervous."See full answer

Pooja G. - "Goal: Maps should reflect reality of places especially with places like hospitals Ecosystem : Maps User Usecases: Daily Commute Explore places Critical situations like emergency - hospital visits, work emergencies, family Businesses using Google Business Profile: Medical & Health Hospitals Clinics Gyms Restaurants Salons Mom & Pop stores, SMB - Retail Enterprises These can be online, physical or both Local guides Downstream usecases for other google products: Google Search Google Gemini "See full answer

Exponent - "This is a classic Strategy Question, which asks you to justify high-level business decisions and strategy. With many acquisition strategy questions, we can first look at core competencies and synergies before offering more complex reasoning. > WeWork had one of the most disastrous IPOs in recent history in 2019. Some reasons why it failed were:A flawed business model > Poor leadership > Poor space optimization > I'll go into detail about each. Feel free to let me know if you want me to dive"See full answer

Jr H. - "for one time i was working as a receptionist in a hotel and one of the rooms that the customer needed was not available but rather we had diffrent room with the same quality i had to convince the customer to use the room we had and i would personally transfer him to the room he desires when its available"See full answer

Sarlinson C. - "Firstly, I would start researching the problems in the market, figure the audience for my product and then with the correct ideation to launch build the right product with the right team."See full answer

A S. - "Clarified with interviewer: How it is used ? user will give facebook page of school as input What is the criteria for declaring school as duplicate ? same name and location used exposed APIs of parent service to create and maintain a inverted index [msg queue+spark]. Duplicate matching service will use elastic search [and filter out input school page]. Elastic will search and return results of school name and geospatial matching ."See full answer

Michael B. - "Problem: Given a modified binary tree, where each node also has a pointer to it's parent, find the first common ancestor of two nodes. Answer: As it happens, the structure that we're looking at is actually a linked list (one pointer up), so the problem is identical to trying to find if two linked lists share a common node. How this works is by stacking the two chains of nodes together so they're the same length. chain1 = node1 chain2= node2 while True: chain1 = chain1.next chain2=chain"See full answer

Jim T. - "In the end I said number of bookings, but explained how I would get there. I talked about the company's mission first (which I didn't know but guessed it was something about making it easier or more accessible for people to travel) and then talked about a few potential metrics that could fit (bookings, NPS, etc). But in the end I explained that number of bookings is not only tied to their core value proposition, but it also reflected a happy customer base on both sides of the transaction (renter"See full answer

Arinze O. - "function biggestNumber(array) { if (!array) return null; let number = array[0] for(let i; i < array.length; i++) { if (number <= array[i]) number = array[i]; } return number } `"See full answer