Interview Questions

Sidharth N. - "My thought process below: FB's mission: Connect with people - friends, family, and build communities. Assumptions made: Goal here is to increase user engagement with an FB product, not to monetize or gather new users, though they may be indirect side-effects No blockers in terms of data or partnerships Looking at mobile specifically Classifying users Trying a matrix structure of Interest vs Ability-to-engage. 1) Enthusiastic fans :: People who are super interested in the eve"See full answer

Ananya M. - "robin hood lol"See full answer

Lakshmi T. - "I used the star framework to talk about a webhooks feature I designed to compliment an API product we were building, the client only asked for the APIs but I saw some inherent flaws in the polling mechanism with the APi product and decided to build a webhook notification system"See full answer

Deepak M. - "Imagine there's a new toy you've always wanted, but it's not quite perfect. Maybe it's missing a feature you'd love, or it's a bit too complex to use. That's where a product manager, or PM, comes in! Think of a PM like the captain of a shipbuilding this amazing toy. They work with different teams, like the designers who make it look cool, the engineers who build it, and the marketers who tell everyone about it. They listen to people like you, who use the toy, to understand what they like and wha"See full answer

Daniel M. - "First I would like to clarify this scenario with some questions: 1) The KPI that dropped, is it a good sign or bad sign? (Ex.: Maybe a our CAC or CRC that dropped than it is a good sign OR just our sales that overall dropped) 2) What kind of sales is this (frequency)? Once a month, week or subscription? 3) What kind of business are we talkng about? Delivery? Saas? 4) What kind of customers is the company focused? B2B, B2C, B2B2C? 5) Is the overall company sales decreasing or there is a segment t"See full answer

Vaibhav D. - "Make current as root. 2 while current is not null, if p and q are less than current, go left. If p and q are greater than current, go right. else return current. return null"See full answer

Sue G. - "Race Condition i,e multiple threads modifying simultaneously can lead to data inconsistency Operations like putIfAbsent() or computeIfAbsent() are not atomoic i.e duplicate entries or missing updates when multiple threads perform operations Data Corruption : during resizing of a hashmap by a thread, if another thread is accessing the same data , buckets can get corrupted, leading to a loss of data"See full answer