Interview Questions

Neha G. - "lets assume YouTube started 20 years ago. population is 7 billion. let's assume for initial 5 years, there was only 1 percent of the population was using YouTube. That makes 70 million users. only 10 percent of that will be uploading videos. that is 7 million. each person uploaded 10 videos. it will be 70 million. "See full answer

Ankita V. - "As a PM at google, If I found a glowing magic relic to accurately predict weather, I would like to explore its functions and properties to integrate with multiple google products such as weather, maps or even google home I would go and find out how this works- assume that this tennis ball sized aritfact is able to accurately predict weather forecast for next 30 days for all geaographies, inside and outside temperature and is quite accurate i would shorlist usecases where this could be made appl"See full answer

Exponent - "This is a Strategy Question, which asks you to justify high-level business decisions and strategy. There's no set formula, but we recommend proposing at least three different reasons to answer the question. Let's go over one possible solution: > I think there's three major ways Uber was impacted:Hiring uncertainty > A focus on Eats > Assisting local restaurants > Hiring uncertainty > I think one of the major ways Uber, and any tech business, was affected is in hiring new talent. I've hea"See full answer

Abdurhman M. - "I will work with innovations that grow our business and help improve the planet and our society."See full answer

Namrata L. - "Clarifying questions Why do we want to improve? Do we have anything specific in mind? Any constraints? Professional networking only or do we want to expand our horizons? Linkedin mission - To help users form networks professionally and know about the world and opportunites out there. LinkedIn has become a social media platform to showcase your professional skills. Focus on acquiring and keep this audience engaged on the platform How does it fit with GenZ and GenY - This is the generation"See full answer

Exponent - "First, it's important to recognize this type of question as a Fermi question in disguise. We need to estimate the total market size of Dropbox for small and medium-sized businesses, which involves approximating things like the number of SMBs as well as the average revenue per SMB to get to our answer. Luckily, we have a playbook for these kinds of questions. Here's our formula for tackling Fermi questions: Ask clarifying questions Catalog what you know **Make equation(s)"See full answer

Sai R. - "def countuniqueoutfits(totalpants: int, uniquepants: int, totalshirts: int, uniqueshirts: int, totalhats: int, uniquehats: int) -> int: """ Number of unique outfits can simply be defined by (uniquepantschoose1uniqueshirtschoose1uniquehatschoose_1) (uniquepantschoose1*uniqueshirtschoose1) # Not wearing a hat nchoosek is n """ res = (uniquepants*uniqueshirtsuniquehats) + (uniquepantsunique_shirts) return res print(countuniqueoutfits(2, 1, 1, 1, 3, 2))"See full answer

Exponent - "This is a 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 equat"See full answer

Exponent - "This is one of the core behavioral questions you should expect in any interview. For this behavioral question in particular, we like to break things down into two parts: Listing the weakness How you're actively trying to improve For this solution, let's say our biggest weakness is being too detail oriented. Here's one potential way to answer this question: > My biggest challenge is I sometimes am too detail oriented that I miss the forest from the trees. This can cause me to go down rabbit"See full answer