Interview Questions

Arnab S. - "didnt know what thumbtack is, apologies for that. looked it up, seems like their line of business is marketplace. their website is down though, bummer! starting with a cohort analysis then taking it from ther; internal reach out to the data team and find out the root cause Demand Side WoW definition? in my understanding if w1 revenue = $100,000, w2 = $96,000, w3 = $92000 and so on. But revenue is calculated as a sum of existing users and new users WoW. analyse duration when this d"See full answer

Exponent - "This is a Design a Product question. For this, we'll want to follow the formula for success: Ask clarifying questions Identify user types, behaviors, and pain points State the goal and use cases List current solutions Improvements / net new solutions Evaluate and select solutions Measure Success Summarize Ask clarifying questions It's important to get clarity on anything unclear. Asking questions also helps us limit scope early on s"See full answer

Hp S. - "a"See full answer

Exponent - "This is an Improve a Product question. Let's first go over the Improve a Product formula: Ask clarifying questions Identify users, behaviors, and pain points State product goal Brainstorm small improvements Brainstorm bolder improvements Measure success Summarize Now, let's begin! Ask clarifying questions Before we begin listing off recommendations, it's important you ask questions to ensure you and the interviewer are on the same page"See full answer

Sue G. - "Race Condition i,e multiple threads modifying simultaneously can lead to data inconsistency Operations like putIfAbsent() or computeIfAbsent() are not atomoic i.e duplicate entries or missing updates when multiple threads perform operations Data Corruption : during resizing of a hashmap by a thread, if another thread is accessing the same data , buckets can get corrupted, leading to a loss of data"See full answer

Aneesh D. - "I have worked with tools such as Hadoop, Oracle, DBeaver, and Databricks. I have used these tools at work when dealing with large datasets, data cleaning, data security, and creating models"See full answer

Christopher O. - "test"See full answer

Siddhartha S. - "Clarifying Questions - Are we trying to increase user base, engagement, adoption, or retention specifically? Is revenue also need to be considered? Interviewer - You decide Q- Ill go with increasing user engagement and retention because MSDN is a pretty well known website and been out there for a while now. Also, once we have user engagement and retention taken care of, revenue will follow Interviewer - Sure MSFT mission is to empower every person and org on the planet to achieve mo"See full answer

Kalaivani S. - "questions: definition of Corporate employees - people who are working for one particular comapny in same location ride sharing app - what is this app for ? I am assuming this is for employees to share Vehicle to commute to and from office - is that correct ? desktop or mobile app ? ios or android ? Timeline ? Resource constraints ? US only or global ? language - English or any other needs to be covered ? Do you want to develop this app to remove friction in employees commute ? and offer flexibil"See full answer

Kwaku K. - "Use a min-heap or sort the array, either method works"See full answer