Interview Questions

Rishabh N. - "I first asked few clarifying questions like the return array may need not contain the list of building in the same order, to which the interviewer agreed. Then I came up with an approach where we iterate the array from right to left and keep a max variable which will keep the value of the current max. When we find an item which is greater than max we update the max and add this element into our solution. The interviewer agreed for the approach. I discussed few corner scenarios with the interview"See full answer

Siddhant S. - "Question: How would you improve airport layover? Clarifying Questions What’s my role? Product Manager at a specific company? - Product Manager at the company that builds the airport Digital Product or Physical Product? - Make my own assumption Specific Airport? Country? Airline? - Airport in the US Has both international and domestic Why? Airport layovers are becoming more common as international travel picks up post COVID Increasing # of travellers Layovers as a"See full answer

Diana D. - "At some point Instagram became a threat. Instead of competing with it Facebook decided to buy it."See full answer

Exponent - "This is another Fermi problem — an estimation or approximation problem with limited information and back-of-the-envelope calculations. There's no right answer: interviewers want to understand how you think and how well you can explain your reasoning, rather than what you already know. Recall the formula for Fermi problems: Ask clarifying questions Catalog what you know Make equation(s) Think about edge cases to add to equation **Breakdown components of your"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

Saurabh N. - "P.S: This is was my crafted ideas in Peer-to-Peer mock, which i refined a little to explain more.. Mission (META): Foster global connections through an immersive ski experience, allowing enthusiasts of all abilities to explore, engage, and share their experiences within the ski community. Competitors Apple, SONY, Valve User Segmentation & Pain Points Younger Audience (19-35):Pain Points: Seek adventure, want to explore extreme ski locations, crave innovative an"See full answer

Ankit T. - "I will try to reconcile the differences between expectations and actuals in the release in order to understand where there may be mismatch. I would try to understand if there can be a roll-back or hotfix to remediate the differences and work with engineering to drive this. Moving forward, I'd work with the rest of the product team to align on a roadmap and have a readout with the executive staff, flagging any changes along the way."See full answer

Brad G. - "I would think about the following Inventory make up Localization for Quebec Device type distribution Price comparison algorithm is tuned correctly Dealer’s ability to merchandise their products The answer is thinking through all these potential issues with the car buyer funnel to identify why potential buyers in Canada are converting at a lower rate. "See full answer

Exponent - "This is another Fermi problem — an estimation or approximation problem with limited information and back-of-the-envelope calculations. There's no right answer: interviewers want to understand how you think and how well you can explain your reasoning, rather than what you already know. Recall the formula for Fermi problems: Ask clarifying questions Catalog what you know Make equation(s) Think about edge cases to add to equation **Breakdown components of your"See full answer

K D. - "Clarifying: How many national resources? For example is this a country with a lot of natural resources or very few we want to preserve? How are the other countries? Is there a lot of conflict around the creation of your country? (We will assume everything is perfect and we have unlimited financial resources) Goals: The two main goals of the product as I can see are preservation and enjoyment. Allowing people to enjoy our natural resources and preserving our natural resources. User seg"See full answer

Chao peter Y. - "The question is incomplete --- the code only passes if you return the data frame sorted by BOTH department name AND rank. While in the problem description, it mentions to only rank by department name: "The results should be ordered by department name." Not a big difference I know, but students shouldn't need to look into the solution to get the necessary knowledge to answer the question."See full answer