Interview Questions

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: > Sure, there are three reasons why Amazon decided to start with books first. Creating niche > The first and most obvious reason is that Amazon wanted to create a niche market for their products at first. By creating a niche in the book space, Amazo"See full answer

Jake M. - "Random Forest is a machine learning model used for classification problems or regression problems. It can handle binary classification as well as multi-class classification. It is a very efficient model and is great for a baseline or used in a service that needs extremely low latency depending on the size of the model. It's also a good option for wide datasets (dataset with many features) due to it's random subset of features. it is slightly less optimized for deep datasets on very large dataset"See full answer

Exponent - "This is one of the core behavioral questions that you should expect to cover in any interview. In particular, it asks you to justify why you want to work at a specific company that you've applied for. There's no right answer for this, however we do recommend you list at least three distinct reasons. Here's an example of what you might say: > Great question! There's so many reasons, but I'll keep it to the three biggest so that I don't just go on and on. Those reasons are:Building an impactful pr"See full answer

Indupriya S. - "This was during a Production VM Migration and the the DB crashed.We had to rollback the migration and after a 22 hour migration window present to the customer. At that point, I did not have answers to the WHY very clearly but had to present to the customer. I walked them through the situation and what had happened when the customer responded that they knew what happened but would like to know the why if we are asking for another migration window. I had to walk out of the meeting but on the hind"See full answer

Vivek A. - "It was an entire case study"See full answer

Exponent - "This was a fun question asked recently by Amazon. Let's get to it! This is a Design Question so let's follow the formula: Ask Clarifying Questions Identify user behaviors, types, and pain points State the goal and use cases List current solutions Brainstorm new solutions Evaluate and select solution Measure success Summarize Ask clarifying questions Here we want to clarify scope and make sure we are on the same page as the interview"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

Arindam G. - "Objective: Primary Goal: Maximize long-term user engagement and retention while balancing monetization. Secondary Goal: Improve relevance of content, ensuring users enjoy their feed. Key Metrics User Engagement → Session Length Ad Revenue → conversion rates, revenue per user. Friend Network Growth → New connections, follow-up engagement with new friends. Retention Rate → How often users return after seeing either an ad or recommendation. Inputs & Signals for the Sy"See full answer