Interview Questions

Apurv M. - "Started with the clarifying questions. Then discussed the following with the panel: Goal Users Use Cases Features Priority Metrics to measure the success"See full answer

Googlepm 1. - "Since there is ample amount of data, there are various options to use them : Track travellers : Using traffic data coupled with user's GPS, in consent with the user, find the user's exact spot, this can be valuable in case of emergencies or tracking a school bus. Better ticketing : I understand that the notion is to NOT build anything with navigation, however if we have all data on the traffic, data analytics can predict if particular routes are used most, say if three connection routes a"See full answer

Spencer W. - "Just to clarify, I’m picturing that we have a install progress bar that we’re showing to the user, and for the initial stage of the install, we display one ad, then we show a different ad when the user is somewhere in the middle part of the installation, then show a third ad in the final step. Also, I assume that each slot must feature a different advertiser. First I’ll set the scene on how ad campaigns work in general then describe how we’d prioritize them and what to display to the user. A t"See full answer

Guru M. - "I have softened recruited people through LinkedIn. People from LinkedIn are more than happy to share their feedback on new products and features and to my surprise, I also saved a lot of company money on recruiting through services and offered Amazon vouchers to participants instead."See full answer

Jeff H. - "Interesting question. I believe they now do this. Couple clarifying questions: Are we talking about the FSD feature specifically, or older legacy models as well? Is there any hardware needed in order to enable this feature, or is it purely a software update? Would people still be able to pay a set fee for FSD upfront, or is it up to me? Up to you. Goals: Let's think about Tesla's goals in this change. One could be adoption. The cost of 10k could be prohibitive for the feature up"See full answer

Anonymous Crayfish - " I would start by asking Why are we doing this? And most importantly Why no? And what do we want to achieve? CUSTOMER SEGMENT: This is followed by who are we doing it for? Do we have our customer segment sorted out, do we have an evaluation of how much of a problem is it to our customers. BUSINESS IMPACT: What is the value the business gains out of doing this. It's mostly tied up to money, but can be put into an umbrella term called "value" STRATEGIES/ SOLUTIONS: What are some of the strat"See full answer

Bit P. - "Testing"See full answer

Praful B. - "Using a join: This is the most common way to do a lookup."See full answer

Matt M. - "Given the dataset does not contain many labels, it implies we cannot directly use supervised learning. I would ask more about the type of dataset we are given. Is it images, text, etc? This may inform the types of transformations we do the dataset. I can see two approaches to training Given the labels we do have, we can find a method to generate labels for the other unlabeled data. This likely will introduce some error since they may not be true labels, but it at least allows processing the"See full answer

Exponent - "This is a Technical question. It tests your ability to understand high level technical concepts. Even though your job won't have any coding involved, you'll still need to understand these concepts. Being able to cover all these topics with clarity communicates confidence in your interviewer. Unfortunately, there's no formula for technical questions, but some general tips are: Use analogies when you can Break your solution into clear, bite-size steps Don't be afraid to use examples to b"See full answer

Lee F. - "If this is not a project, we should first establish a memorandum of understanding that gives us a sense of their availability, skills, minimum and maximum levels of support, and other parameters that would govern their involvement. With a project in hand, the same understandings need to be achieved or renewed before project commitment to see if tech/DS can fulfill the need. You owe it to your partners to provide them with as much clarity about the project as you can: its goals, scope and deadlin"See full answer