Interview Questions

P D. - "User: Self Driving Ride Sharing Car Companies (consdering waymo uasecase for google) Needs Identify the rider and allow only authorized rider to enter Emergency use case (allow maintenance team to enter in case of emergency) Avoid accidents with nearby vehicles Avoid blindspots with kids / pets nearby Solutions Biometrics / qr code scanning to identify the rider / maintenance team Alerting the emergency team in case of accident / fire etc. Sensors / camera in the car Remote Locking"See full answer

Push S. - "STAR story weaved around the project 0 to 1 execution with all the technical tradeoffs, issues, and success metrics involved."See full answer

Sarlinson C. - "Firstly, I would start researching the problems in the market, figure the audience for my product and then with the correct ideation to launch build the right product with the right team."See full answer

Beginner P. - "Skeleton: Mission Metrics to improve User segments & the segment with most impact User journey Pain points and opportunities Features/solutions & prioritization Starting with Twitter's mission, "the power to create and share ideas & information without any barriers", we are looking to empower people to be both consumers and generators of content. Are these users interacting with Twitter on the website or the mobile app? [Clarifying with interviewer, who answers mobile app.] "See full answer

Gourav G. - "Skeleton: Mission Goals and User segmentation User journey Metrics Pain points and opportunities experimentation Starting with Twitter's mission, "the power to create and share ideas and information without barriers", we are looking to empower people to be both consumers and creators. However, for the sake of this discussion, I want to focus on the consumer sides. As mentioned, our goal is to focus on user growth. But I want to understand if we are looking to acquire more 1s"See full answer

Seth W. - "As always, I'd start this discussion by asking a couple clarifying questions. In particular, I'd like to learn more from the interviewer about what "not pulling as hard" looks like. Does it mean: lower code output relative to the rest of the team lower velocity per sprint in terms of story points less participation in code reviews minimal participation in meetings and ceremonies Or perhaps it's a combination of these. As others have pointed out, I'd also want to confirm that I am not ma"See full answer

Sagrika S. - "The biggest factor that excites me about technology is its ever changing and dynamic trend. In my life, I have seen the transition from landlines to simple mobile to smartphones, from Cathode tube desktop screen to super slim TFT and many more. I think technology has now (with time) become integral part of human life and getting in-sync with it is like a normal and very cool phenomena."See full answer

Anusree N. - "Design a product for cyclists. Clarifying Cyclist as in? People who cycle right? Who are we? Startup Are we designing a MVP/Standalone application or integrating the solution with an already existing one? Goal? Seems like acquisition, anything else or any broader goal that might be in your mind? Customer segments? You define. Is it a hardware or a software product? Geography? India Customer segment Regular cyclist: Who uses cycle for their daily commute. (As acquisition is our main g"See full answer

Priyansh J. - "By increasing the number of paid users, I assume we mean that we want to increase the % of DAUs who pay for YT Music. First, we need to understand the Youtube Music play here. Youtube Music was carved out of Youtube because Spotify and Apple Music were getting popular. Users were listening to music on Spotify instead of on Youtube, threatening ad revenue for Youtube. Therefore, Youtube Music was born as a standalone app, where users could listen to the music ad free from anywhere anytime. In"See full answer

Harsh S. - "Some clarifying questions. Does this include storage required for backup? Assume - Yes and only one replica. Will email be compressed? Assume - Yes Assuming world wide user base. Let's formulate the equation required to estimate this answer. total storage required = (Total users x storage growth/per user + new users x storage required/user - all users x delete storage)*compression ratio + storage required for one replica. Total Gmail users = ~1B Based on my own ema"See full answer