Interview Questions

Sandhya P. - "What is Meta Quest, Horizon world VR game? Horizons worlds is a platform that lets creators build worlds where real people can come and interact. This could be a gaming world, a socializing world, a marketplace, immersive experience, etc. Why would people want to use Horizon worlds: Because it isn’t possible to always visit all places in person I know that Meta has been encouraging creators at this time because the Horizon’s worlds needs a lot of worlds for it to be interesting for customers Cus"See full answer

Natalia N. - "Clarifying questions: How much is the decline? Since when have sales been declining? Make sure that it has correlation with competition and not a premature assumption that can come from something internal (not external competition). Is it all the stores? What is the variation in the dicline? If you have stores that have 20% less sales vs some that are steady, it might be something related to the store experience specifically. How does the decrease in sales compare to cities that ha"See full answer

Nagasowjanya V. - "Click- through rate (CTR) should not be analyzed in isolation. Combining it with watch time, bounce rate, and retention metrics ensures a comprehensive understanding of user engagement and content effectiveness. Hypothetically, addressing the 10% CTR decline on Netflix Understand & Identify where the CTR drop is: Compare CTR trends over the past few weeks / months / years to identify if this a seasonal fluctuations or a major issue. Is the 10% drop a platform-wide issue or specific to a"See full answer

Venkata rakesh M. - "Here if we breakdown each dependency [A,B] , We need to check if there a cycle in Dependency Graph. If there is cycle installation is not possible, If there is no cycle installation is possible. Steps : 1: Build the graph 2: Perform DFS based Cycle Detection 3: Check each package if those packages have cycle or not."See full answer

Robert H. - "The addition of an intermediate "sanitization" ML is something Neeraj used in the Uber Eats design and again seems kind of outside the scope here and redundant. This can simply be built into the AI response model to save a step. It's not clear what benefit this step provides, and he basically said we should have it "just because it would be good" and there's no concrete reasoning why to include it. Adding a Kafka queue to handle the thumbs-down ratings? For what purpose do you need a queue othe"See full answer

Mike Z. - "Clarifying questions Scope: Just Reels in Facebook, or Instagram too? Mobile and desktop? Goal: Any specific goal we know of or up to me to decide? Framework/Overview Strategy Metric options with pros/cons North Star Metric (NSM) Risks & countermetrics Strategy / The Why: we want to give people … Meta: the power to build community + Bring people closer together Reels: new form of self-expression / entertainment with short form video and pro editing tools Ads in Re"See full answer

Hayatu H. - "Best practices for prioritizing customer service requests Prioritizing support requests is a key part of creating a customer journey optimized for maximum revenue. If you want to start using a ticket prioritization process that will boost both customer satisfaction and your bottom line, we've got nine proven best practices below: Respond to your most loyal customers first Tag repeat customers as high-priority tickets Automate simple requests wherever possible Mark tickets with urg"See full answer

Ross B. - "I most want to communicate a few principals of conflict resolution that I believe were integral in this situation, which are mutual respect, a results orientation, an unwavering focus on the user. To that end, here’s how I’d like to structure this answer: First, I’ll tell you about the project we were working on, to provide some background for you. Second, I’ll describe the disagreement. Third, I’ll describe how we arrived at a solution, and finally, I’ll discuss how those 3 conflict resolu"See full answer

Rachita D. - "I will start with making sure that I have a clear understanding of Medium and how it works. I will ask the interviewer to fill in any gaps in my knowledge of Medium. Medium is a platform for novice, and professional writers to express/share their opinions readers to read about subjects that matter to them the platform has been running for some time (6-7 years), so it is relatively mature (this confirms that Medium has found a product-market fit) Here is my high-level structure for answeri"See full answer

Prabhav G. - "Assumptions and Clarifications! 1 . What is the aim? increase monetization or to just provide easy accessible food for customers 2.What are the supposed items to be available in the vending machines? 3.How many Vending Machines per hotel if more than 1 Can we add different items in the machines or are they supposed to be similar? 4.Which company is looking to Design this machine?Is it google? Or some other company? 5.These machines should they be available to paying guests or visitors or bot"See full answer

Anonymous Bee - "Which structure would you suggest for such a question?"See full answer

Kartikeya N. - "Clarifying questions: What city/ country are we talking about? Indian metro. What all counts as a grocery store? Do have to cover dark stores as well which are not open to public? Only consider all grocery stores where public pick up is allowed. Do we have to include hyper markets/ super markets as well or only smaller stores? Include both. Okay, so I would be considering the Indian metro of Bangalore here. The overall equation is , **total number of grocery stores = Number of small grocer"See full answer

Anonymous Crayfish - "Clarify Read more what & where? -> Books. Where -> upto candidate Who are we? -> A big tech company Goal -> to help people read more books Assumptions Books which aren't education/work related. Basically books that you read in your free time Read doesn't necessarily mean read text, it means looking at and making sense of what is displayed. and display can be in any form -> text or image or video Customers Kids in age of 5-12 years Teens Adults Elderly We pick kids in age of 5-1"See full answer

Anonymous Sparrow - "Clarifying question: may I assume that this would be for all new units that Roku would be selling? Ie. they wouldn't be sending new remotes to existing Roku customers? (assume interviewer agrees) Here's how I would approach this analysis: Identify purpose and value of this button for customers Identify the purpose and value for HBO/Max and Roku Posit: HBO should be willing to pay up to the value that HBO/Max gets minus potential discount by Roku for the value that Roku would get Pre"See full answer

Helen Z. - "Two clarification questions first! When we say quarters, are we assuming the quarters are stacked on top of each other, or are we measuring across the diameter? let's say they are stacked. And second question, is the height of the building just from the ground floor to the top of the building? yes. Okay, the key numbers we need to find then are the height of the building in feet, and the # of quarters that fit into a foot. First for the height of the building, the key numbers are heigh"See full answer

Priyanka S. - "Motivation / Purpose to build this integration - Summarizing from Knowledge base, extraction from existing Box docs, generating stuff from context in docs --> I will prioritize summarizing from Box docs knowledge base, why?--> because use case is straightforward, fast MVP, quick implementation, potential for fats iteration to drive and continue demand (possibility to implement using APIs already avaialble via OpenAI and Box) What's in it for Box, and ChatGPT - synergy alignment - why build"See full answer

Arthur Y. - "Clarifying Questions/Statements: Clarify understanding of Fundraisers: My answer: product that lets users create fundraisers for a particular cause, and invite/share it with other users to donate to that cause. Usually set for a certain target donation amount to be met, and a timeframe for which a user can donate to the cause Are we assuming the lifecycle of the Fundraisers product today? If so, then I’d focus on engagement, since we have a meaningful amount of users on FB ap"See full answer

Carlos S. - "1) Clarifications Is this a Google initiative? Yes Timeline for development? MVP within 3 months. Hotel type? Focus on urban and mid-sized hotels Items to offer? Include ready-to-eat meals/snacks (e.g., microwaveable food, healthy snacks, beverages). Geographic scope? Launch in the US only. 2) Google Mission / Why "Organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful." Google aims to enhance the guest experienc"See full answer

Jimmy K. - "Awesome thanks for your question. Can I take a few seconds to write down some thoughts? - Sure Okay I’m ready. So the way I’ll work through this problem is that first I’ll ask some clarifying questions, then I’ll dig into the why, starting with Facebook’s mission and competition and try to end up with a why for this product to exist. Then we will talk about users and will pick a user to focus on. We will then figure out which need to solve for the user given the product's why and the context we"See full answer

Hl M. - "Would love to have transcripts posted below videos with timestamps to help us browse the video when video lengths are typically longer"See full answer