Interview Questions

Matan S. - "How would you improve Robinhood? Robinhood. I started to use Robinhood when I first got a job after grad school. I started using it as a tool to do no fees investment. Recently this year, I began to use their high-yield saving account to make money on my non-investment funds. Robinhood's mission is to democratize finance for all. To make investing accessible, friendly, and understandable to newcomers and experts alike. How would I improve it? Robinhood makes money from a few different channel"See full answer

Zaeem B. - "Hi Chris, this is John from CISCO. How have you been? This is with respect to our earlier communication regarding your order which was supposed to be completed by end Sep 24. Can you recall that conversation? Unfortunately, I am compelled to inform you that the shipment pertaining to your order is now delayed and the reason for that is severe climatic conditions in Chaina caused plant shut down there for several days. Hence we are expecting atleast a month of delay and we now expect to serve you"See full answer

Nathan B. - " This is mostly correct and fairly fast. My code has a bug somewhere where it fails on cases like the last case, where there are negative number on both ends of the array and the sums . from collections import deque debug = True # False def prdbg(*x): global debug debug = True # False if debug: print(x) else: return def max_sum(arr, start, end): if type(arr) == type(''' "See full answer

Darshana W. - "Clarification Questions: Can we define and describe office ? my current office ( IT ) , or government offices, starup offices, etc I assume we are desgining a refrigerator for my current office. It is an office with multiple floors with canteen on one of the floors. There is seating arrangement for around 200 - 300 on every floor. Generally there is maximum usage during lunch time and then snacks time since part of us dont have breakfast and dinner in office. Is there any cost limitation"See full answer

Talles S. - "Me: Thanks for this. I have a few clarification questions- what would be the museum? Is this an art museum? A museum with ancient things from across the globe? Is there a specific theme? Interviewer: You can consider that this is a modern art museum like MOMA in New York. Me: Thanks -- and to make sure, do you have any additional specifications in what this product wants to tackle? Specifically, are we trying to make the museum experience better, the ticketing experience better or anything els"See full answer

Sri H. - "First of all, are some of these hypothetical questions? Doesn't sound like a recent Meta Analytical/Execution and rather is a strategy question but you can lead someone from a decision to an execution, I guess!"See full answer

Ayan H. - "Let's define the term "everybody" to start with. I can think of a few things: business users want it for certain feature Blackberry had consumers (non-business) users want to use or keep using Blackberry for certain features Interviewer: Business users wanted it. Okay. My assumption would be that business users wanted it for the security features that Blackberry so famously promoted. Here, business users could be the organization buying the phone (such as HP or Google) or the actual e"See full answer

Xuelong A. - "I've participated in several competitions in Kaggle concerning medical images. My most recent competition deals with images of skin lesions and classifying them as either melanoma or not. I focused on fine-tuning pretrained models and ensembling them. I also like to keep track of the latest trends of computer vision research, with a focus on making models memory-efficient through model compression and interpretability."See full answer

VictorSage - "This happened in my previous job in [company X]. I was the Single threaded Owner for a new business growth initiative from this company to launch a new eCommerce supply chain solution that X was planning to experiment. Being the single threaded owner, I was accountable for researching the customer problems and coming up with business goals and requirements, including identifying the engineering headcount needed to solve the customer pain point and eventually execute it across 11 different produ"See full answer

William W. - "Clarifying questions: What do we mean by 'improve'? What part of Peloton's experience are we interested in improving? We want to improve the experience of setting up Peloton equipment after a customer has received it from our transportation provider. Is there a specific piece of equipment we're targeting? Bike, treadmill? Bike Why is Peloton interested in improving this part of the experience? What is the metric we are trying to drive? We have learned that custo"See full answer