Analytical Interview Questions

Julien C. - "👇 Your feedback is very much appreciated 👇 Defining metrics: Activation Mobile downloads New user registration Retention and Engagement Nb messages sent Average nb of contacts per user Nb groups Monetization CAC LTV ARPU MRR Prioritizing: What matters most for WhatsApp right now is Engagement. I would therefore prioritize these three: Nb messages sent Average nb of contacts per user Nb groups"See full answer

Katie - "Union−Find -We illustrate our basic approach to developing and analyzing algorithms by considering the dynamic connectivity problem. We introduce the union−find data type and consider several implementations (quick find, quick union, weighted quick union, and weighted quick union with path compression). Finally, we apply the union−find data type to the percolation problem from physical chemistry. Analysis of Algorithms -The basis of our approach for analyzing the performance of algorithms is th"See full answer

SG - "Clarifying questions - Alexa HW, Alexa SW, Alexa particular feature? Assumption - Pick any. Picking HW due to relevance with my background. Any particular pain point that we are trying to address, or any specific goal that I should be aware of? Assumption - None. Mine to pick. Goal for Amazon is to be the most customer centric company. To extend the same vision - With Alexa HW our goal is to provide the best customer experience possible. **Restating problem state"See full answer

Adib M. - "Useful article on API migration https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tips-successful-api-migration-pooja-nihalani/"See full answer

Madhu K. - "Define success for Youtube search I would start with clarifying questions / assumptions, followed by mission of YouTube (YT). I would then list down a few metrics that would be guided by the goal of YouTube and which user actions link to that goal and finally which of them should be used to define success. Clarifying questions: When you say YouTube search, can I assume only text search for now and exclude voice search ? Interviewer: Thats fine. We can stick to text search for now. "See full answer

Pm P. - "Since success metrics is a very broad term, to dive deep into WCS - What constitutes success. What is the objective of the company/product, north star/mission of the organization or product? Dependent on the company, market, the industry they play in. As an example: Facebook's mission is now empowerment, bringing the people together and giving them the power to build communities. Every part of its product aligns in one way or other with this goal. Be it, its Web/Mobile platform, Instagram,"See full answer

BePostive - "· How well the team is self-motivated and contributing overall success of the company by releasing high quality bug prone releases · Growth of their team members · Does the manager encouraging and supporting career switch based on the individual desire or passion"See full answer

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

Pablo S. - "1) Product, the value and the users this business has Product: Yelp is a platform that connects local businesses with people looking for those services. Value: Yelpers can connect with them / book appointments or make reservations with a good amount and quality of reviews per business. For businesses, it is a way to get visibility and find new demand with an easy setup. Users: Local businesses (offering): successful when they are booked. Searchers / demand: successful when"See full answer

Shashi R. - "How do you define Retention? Let’s assume a user comes back tomorrow and scroll for a 10s or so Do we mean to improve the daily retention or weekly/monthly retention? Take a call I think we should look at the weekly retention as checking LinkedIn daily could be a cumbersome task for some and daily retention data may have frequent fluctuations due to several reasons such as professionals are too busy to check LinkedIn on a daily basis Has retention dropped recently, or do we just need to"See full answer

John F. - "First, I would like to establish some assumptions about the problem to determine if this is possible. For this scenario, I will assume that “accepted” does not mean a student is enrolled at the university (most students apply to multiple universities and can only attend one university). For simplicity, I will also assume that each student is applies to a single department and that every student is associated with a single department. Based on this information, I see a scenario that this would"See full answer

Will P. - "The first step is to clarify what the interviewer means by a sales decline. Questions I would ask here include: Did sales drop suddenly or gradually? What is the magnitude of the sales drop? Are sales down for a specific product? Are sales down for a specific channel (drive-thru, walk-in, etc.)? This series of questions is to make sure we are on the same page when we say 'sales are down.' We may not know the why yet, but the what should be easy to align on. Otherwise, how would"See full answer

M N. - "Goal: Merchant growth. Any new market/category? downstream is revenue growth Users: small, medium, large (plus) Focusing on small - biggest, highest need rn Focus on small - entrepreneurs, offline to online, switchers picking entre Needs: onboarding catalog creation inventory mgmt order mgmt fulfillment Not enough tech resources for marketing&ads onboarding personalized onboarding based on product,size,location,experience, target segment s"See full answer

Niji R. - "General Approach: In a funnel, prospects that dropped off at the very end just before conversion are the ones that were most likely to convert simply because they went through the effort of going through multiple steps to advance to the very end of the funnel. The more the prospects advances through the funnel, better their probability of converting. I'd therefore focus more on reducing drop-offs at the final stages of the funnel for better conversion. Caveats: There are certain use-cases where"See full answer

Danyal R. - "Clarify the Issue: Begin by asking for more context about the specific issue they're referring to. This demonstrates your ability to gather information and make sure you have a clear understanding of the problem at hand. Assumption: biggest issue is decrease in north start metric: # of bookings Prioritize and Define Goals: Once you have a clear understanding of the issue, outline the goals you'd like to achieve in solving it. Increasing booking conversions, reducing friction in the bo"See full answer

A F. - "Clarifying questions: 1M users- are these paying users? Daily active users? Once we know which users, we look at certain areas of initial investigation for patterns: Dashboards: Is this a flaw in the dashboard, or metrics pipelines not running? (Assuming not a problem) Geography: Are these users in a certain geolocation? (Ex: China bans the use of Netflix?) Users segments: Are these certain age group (kids, where parents might have restricted) or first-time users (they watched only one"See full answer