Interview Questions

Zakery K. - "Conflict is a GREAT opportunity to really demonstrate that you care about someone and, through effective conflict resolution, build stronger authentic relationships with the people you work with. When faced with conflict, I prioritize understanding all perspectives involved. I start by actively listening to the other parties: asking clarifying questions to pinpoint the source of the conflict, reflecting back what I'm hearing to make sure I understand them correctly, and ultimately identify"See full answer

Ani T. - "User Need Not Being Met by the Market: Instant, Seamless Cross-Border Refunds Identifying the Gap- One major gap in the digital payments industry is the lack of instant, seamless cross-border refunds for consumers. Currently, international refunds take days or even weeks due to exchange rate fluctuations, banking delays, and compliance checks. This creates frustration for users, especially in e-commerce, where consumers expect instant refunds like they receive for domestic transactions. Pain Poi"See full answer

Utkarsh G. - "Clarify: Map means -> coordinates Places -> any location visitable by humans software/hardware? -> up to you unmapped by anyone or in Gmaps? -> not in Gmaps Goal: to widen coverage constraints -> none market - US Time to market -> 3-6 months Why Aligns with Google mission Drive more engagement Users Company Users who drop locations Big City dwellers Country side areas Remote areas with limited internet End users Advertisers Prioritise: siz"See full answer

Shrey H. - "To determine whether we should introduce a new ads placement on the Uber homepage, I will use the following framework: Clarifying Questions Mission and Goals User Journey and Pain Points A/B Testing Plan Decision-Making Criteria 1. Clarifying Questions To ensure I fully understand the problem, I would ask: What type of ads are we considering? For example, are they full-screen ads, banner ads, or native ads integrated into the feed? --> Take your"See full answer

Ash J. - "Clarify: I will assume that misinformation includes posts, videos and pictures and that sources could be Groups/ Pages and Individuals. High level structure: Mission, Information funnel and drop-off points, Metrics & Trade-offs, Mitigations Mission/ Strategy: Facebook's mission is to bring the world closer together and empower people to build community. Reliable information is key to fostering a healthy community. In light of recent world events and public sentiment, it is important f"See full answer

Daniel P. - "Okay, so I understand the question: "how does Google Maps compute estimated time of arrival"... There are a couple scenarios when ETA is calculated: planning a future journey, planning current journey. Can we assume scope to the current journey? The learnings will likely be transferable. User inputs to ETA include origin, destination, and route chosen. Let's assume first that the user has chosen an origin, destination, and a route chosen. We can come back to these assumptions later. The way I'"See full answer

Will P. - "There are several categories of ads that users may encounter on YouTube content pages, depending on the user's device and browser. To narrow the scope of my answer, I am going to assume this is a non-skippable, midroll video ad that is 15 seconds long, and shown to a non-premium desktop user in the US. The next step is to clarify the motivations behind the proposed feature. Are non-relevant ads harmful to the overall user satisfaction? Do users engage more with relevant ads? Are advertisers mak"See full answer

P R. - "First I'd like to clarify the definition of reactions and confirm that it's same as what exists today. Definition: Reactions provides users the ability to provide richer expression beyond 'like' Business goal: Since this is a mature product, the business goal is to improve user engagement Product goal: Bring people closer together by letting people provide more accurate sentiment to the community based on the content Personas: 1. Content creator 2. user using reactions **Li"See full answer

Manohar A. - "Some follow-up questions to correctly understand what "improve" means here? Is it to have: more riders, better user experience, monetization, more/new market penetration. Let's assume interviewer requested to choose whatever I prefer. I choose better user experience which might trigger other areas of improvement as well. Some more probing questions: To I need to consider USA only or any other country/region or global? Can I consider only popular on demand taxi service for this question? One wa"See full answer

Tara J. - "I would like to speak loud to narrow the scope of this question so I can be effective in identifying a solution to the problem on hand. Hope that is OK. You mentioned, “Re-design the airport experience”. Is there a goal for this re-design exercise? Some top goals that come to my mind are the following. Please guide me so I can set it and we can proceed from there. “Increase the number of passengers who travel to and from this airport” “Improve customer satisfaction” **“Get in"See full answer

Sebastián N. - "Mission-first doesn’t mean ignoring revenue; it means optimizing for the right revenue. For me, it looks like: ( I qualify for legitimate use cases and clear success metrics; I’m transparent about limitations and risks; I escalate edge cases early rather than trying to ‘get creative’ to save a deal; and (4) I’d rather slip a quarter than sign a customer into a deployment that’s likely to cause harm or blow up trust later. Practically, I manage this by building pipeline that matches our ideal cus"See full answer

Siddharth P. - "I believe these are the traits of a great PM. I see PM to be somone who is a great manager of customer problems and for that he/she has to be: Be an expert at the one domain and know the customer of the product in that domain and curate experiences for them better than the competition. Be persuasive - Get things done by convincing rather than commanding. Learn how great products are by being an engineer. Be a fearless leader by championing teams ideas all the way to the management la"See full answer

Mark H. - "Clarification: workplace is a communication messaging tool for employee to send and receive messages. Why: meta's mission current landscape market trends meta's unique value strength & weakness Workplace Mission: build a communication tool for employees to better collaborate and engage with each other Goal: focus on engagement, not revenue Product ecosystem: Meta Company sourcing department IT department User: sender/receiver #of people log in #of people"See full answer

Balasubramanian R. - "Inorder traversal of the tree should be the solution for this problem."See full answer

Rahul J. - "Constraints: 4-direction moves; no mode switching (pick exactly one of {1=bicycle, 2=bike, 3=car, 4=bus} for the full trip). Per-mode search: If a mode’s per-step time/cost are uniform, run BFS on allowed cells. Then totaltime = steps × timeperstep, tie-break by steps × costper_step. If time/cost vary by cell (given matrices), run Dijkstra per mode minimizing (totaltime, totalcost) lexicographically. Maintain the best ⟨time, cost⟩ per cell; relax when the new pair is strictly better. S"See full answer

Rick P. - "The cars are stopped at the traffic light which means they will not be passing the light at all :)"See full answer

Vihari K. - "At RTI while working on content-based recommender system on our ecommerce site, we received request from one of our distributor clients to make the system not only suggest products based on their purchasing history but also exclusively push higher priced items, regardless of their actual needs or demand patterns, it was challenging situation because it contradicted the primary purpose of our system, which was value based, patient centric product recommendations. To understand in this situation i"See full answer

Amney M. - "it is really good explanation thanks it is really good explanation thanks"See full answer