Interview Questions

Mark - "Clarifying questions: What's Lyft current goal and how does this new focus on Deaf drivers align with Lyft's goal & strategy? Do Lyft already have service/product to enable deaf users to drive for lyft? Assume We don't have any existing product/service to allow deaf users to drive for Lyft today We are designing for the ridesharing business and that the Deaf drivers can drive for all types of Lyft rideshare options Lyft's Mission: Improve people's lives w/ the world's best transport"See full answer

Priyank S. - "clarify question- do you want me to focus on Home, wearables, automotive or any specific IOT product? Interviewer - whichever you want to focus Rephrase: So I believe our goal is to make life easier for users using Internet of things (IOT) product. Does that sound good? Interviewer - Yes Ok so if I understand it, I can focus on any IOT product. For me Internet of things product is the one which is smart and connects to internet and makes people day to day tasks easy. With evolution of 5G Interne"See full answer

Amy M. - "Before we head into this - let's redefine this question to identify some objectives and key results: re-Design FB security privacy intimacy a few questions I want to clarify are: Is this for desktop, mobi web, or apps? Apps Is this for US only? Yes May I assume some resources available for me? Such as Designers, Data Scientists, Developers? Sure ----- Okay let me think about this for a min ---- I'd like to start off by: Thinking about th"See full answer

Sri A. - "Mission: to help users buy and sell products from groups. If we think about the value here, users want to join groups that sell/buy products of interest (young moms or vinyl), or location of interest, or trust, or some other factor - either from other users or SMBs. User Actions: create groups, join groups, active in groups - make posts to sell or show interest in buying (like, commenting, sharing or ideally transacting) deeper engagement - sharing , saving , searching more based on wh"See full answer

Anjaly J. - "Who is the competition ? Apple , Samsung, Huawei, Oneplus By working on the below -ves: What are the -ves when compared to the competitors ? Price : Why would people buy similar features for a higher price when available on a low cost phone ? Design / Looks : Millennials / Alpha generation go by the looks of the phone. Funky colors : Pixel have funky colored phones (+ve and -ve) Performance : One plus performance being better than Pixel UI : Stock Android vs Custom UI What"See full answer

Bipin R. - "US Population = 330M Smartphone users (80 percent penetration) = 264M Apple has roughly 40 percent market share and Samsung has 30 percent. Pixel has the roughly 2 percent market share. Total Pixel users = 2 percent of 264M = 5.3M users"See full answer

Yao X. - "In general, I don't think Google should go into ridesharing market at this point. (06/2020) I have 3 reasons why Google should not get into ridesharing business at this point and a exception. Reason 1: Current market With major players like Uber and Lyft occupying around 90% of the market, current ridesharing business market is already crowded. These companies have been around for 6-7 years and users already formed the user habit of using either Uber or Lyft when they need a car to go some"See full answer

Lokesh K. - "Clarification: What are we trying to improve on Facebook Marketplace? I would like you to ponder on this. I'll take on how to monetize the Marketplace. Thus, improving it from the company's perspective Do we have any particular Demography in Mind Take India, as it is one of the biggest market available. What do I understand by Facebook Marketplace? It is a place where both buyers and sellers get a chance to connect within Facebook. The Sellers have the option of postin"See full answer

Pathworks P. - "To answer this, I will focus my efforts on explaining the most common type of API used in most modern software development applications - the REST API. For the purpose of simplicity, I will also keep the topics of Authorization and Authentication out of the mix. In essence, an API is a group of logic that takes in a specific set of inputs and responds with a specific set of outputs. This is analogous to going to a drive-thru and placing an order for a meal. When you give an API a bunch of"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

Anonymous Hummingbird - "Q: should this be part of FB or a standalone product? A: no hard requirements, it just has to be something that FB would launch Q: is there a specific region we should be designing for? is it ok that we focus on the US as its the current epiccenter of the pandemic? A: Yes that's fine Q: fighting covid-19 is a very broad goal, what if we translated this into decrease the spread of covid-19 - there's multiple ways we could do that but it makes it a bit more concrete. A: Yes that sounds good "See full answer

Gaurav C. - "Clarifying Questions: Do we have any specific goal in mind for this new product, for example targeting new audience, expansion to new places , catering to new need etc. · I am going to assume targeting new audience Do we have any constraints? · No constraints When you say restaurants does it mean casual restaurants, pubs, food joints 5 star hotels etc. · I am going to assume all kind of restaurants who have already registered there establishments on Swiggy Structure User Segme"See full answer

Miguel C. - "Missing launch. Only design is covered."See full answer

Fred K. - "success can be defined as the achievement of a desired goal. "See full answer

Raj S. - "ads vsd dsa. How would you improve Facebook Groups given the goal of increasing the feeling of community?"See full answer

Anonymous Hummingbird - "Clarifying questions: · Is there a specific scenario we are building before? Example: urgent need for a specific type of blood vs building up blood banks proactively. You decide · This would be for mobile/web and integrate into the existing facebook product? Yes Ok before we get started I wanted to discuss the facebook mission: to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. I can see how blood donation fits directly into this, enabling blood donation helps"See full answer

Yespm T. - "Clarifying question: When you say users, what specific metric are we talking about?  Answer: we want to increase # of daily active users.  Assume active users are logged in users. Is there a region that we have in mind for this increase? Assume no, we want to think about globally Is there a specific device (mobile vs desktop) ? Assume no Approach: I want to first think about Youtube, its mission and current business at a high level. . Then I want to think about the current ecos"See full answer