Interview Questions

Anuradha T. - " I will attempt to answer this. Barnes and Nobles Nook, although Amazon had an advantage in terms of being early to market (2007) with the Kindle, B&N Nook could have been marketed Nook more creatively, given that B&N has access to massive inventories of books in digital format. It fell short of: Focusing on the differentiation in marketing Being aggressive in marketing tactics by promoting the Nook at events, webinars, out-of-store marketing Attracting the user base by highlighting the m"See full answer

Amparo L. - "Hard worker, positive attitude and arrives ready to work with no emotional issues."See full answer

Anjali P. - "Question and video tagged not same. "See full answer

Ian S. - "Clarifying Question: Are we talking about mission-oriented success or business-oriented success? [Let's assume mission-oriented] Let's start by talking about where Pages fit into the mission of Facebook. Then we'll cover some relevant metrics, identify which are most important for measuring the success of Pages, and then talk about some trade-offs as part of a final recommendation. Mission: Facebook's mission is to empower people to build community and to bring people closer togeth"See full answer

Jane D. - "Clarifying questions: Are we looking at a trend? YoY/MoM/WoW No, last year the numbers were fine. Is the decrease gradual or sudden? This seems like a sudden decrease MoM. Last month we were on target to meet our goals. Is this across all products or is it specific to a product? This is specific to one product. Is this region-specific or across all markets? Across all markets Ok, this gives me some idea that this product which is part of our p"See full answer

Vivek S. - "Hey team, the title says a "GTM campaign" whereas the video is about "favorite marketing campaign" example. Are they supposed to be the same? If not, can you please fix it?"See full answer

Sarthak A. - "Generally, these kinds of issues are routed via the customer support teams, their role in such a scenario is to try to reproduce the issue. If the issue is valid they create a JIRA ticket with the exact issue for the development teams / On-Call engineer to fix. In this case, I am going to assume there is no customer support team. The first thing I'll try to do is reproduce the issue using the exact steps that the customer would have used to connect to the fire stick. In case the customer was d"See full answer

A G. - "Clarification Qs: What does "split" mean here? - split the UI and if so how (through tabs?) What counts as "media" - clarified already What is prompting us to consider this change? - any negative feedback from the users/ decrease in certain Newsfeed metrics like engagement etc/ any particular business goal? is this across or platforms eg desktop/mobile ? Is this for all regions? Mission of FB: Fb's mission is to bring people closer together by enabling them to build communiti"See full answer

Anonymous Hummingbird - "Clarifying questions: Q: So FB locals is a standalone app that has reviews of local businesses? What is the current state of the product? A: Yes. It recently relaunched and branded. Facebooks mission is to connect people and help them build community, FB local fits into this by using the power of the large social network to surface businesses and events and uses signals such as reviews to build trust and provide value. So its of the utmost importance that the reviews are authentic. Goal: I"See full answer

I C. - "Clarifying questions To confirm, stories are available for 24 hrs What is the target increase for stories? Will we be applying this change globally vs. only in the close friends story view? Do we have any particular OKRs that we are trying to achieve? Mission Facebook is focused on creating and connecting communities. Instagram fits within FB's portfolio of products as it connects individuals often through a more creative and light-hearted medium"See full answer

Anonymous Shrimp - "Let's assume that the school furniture includes Table, Chair and Whiteboard. Now, the first step is to find the number of students in the U.S Let's assume that the population of the U.S is 300M. Let's assume that Americans start education at 5 years old till 25 for undergrad. It means Americans spend 20 years of their life in school. Average living years for people is 80. 20/80 * 100 = 25%. It means 25% of the American population attends college. 25/100*300M = 75M. So, there are 75M students"See full answer

Praveen - "First, I would like to discuss and align what is meaningful social interaction. Given facebook's mission to empower users to build communities and get people closer, it is important that users have "meaningful social interaction" The goal of defining this metric is to use this as a north star or success metric around any efforts to increase engagement. It can also help with ads targeting/monetization by showing ads only during deeper interactions and hence might get better yield. Given faceb"See full answer

Praveen - "I will start with discussing the Google mission statement, which is to organize the world's information and make it easily accessible to everyone to help them get things done, and make their day a bit easier. I will think about building something that will leapfrog this mission. Google has already organized all of the world's public digital information in the current state. There are opportunities to get more information into a digital form. But there are also significant improvements in mak"See full answer