Interview Questions

Simran M. - "To answer why Spotify introduced Podcasts, I would like to use 3C framework- Customer, Competitors and Company. Customers We have seen Spotify has a high WAU. This means users are engaged to the platform for music. Listeners need some new trend to listen to while going to the gym for example, or being stuck in a traffic. Sense of listening to something productive is what users need these days. Podcasts are lesser commitment than audiobooks because of short episode length"See full answer

Shwetang S. - "Clarifying Qs: Design meaning - UI elements, front end requests and backend system architecture GIFs = standard short animated videos of 1/2 seconds built either using images or videos Make GIFs = generate gifs from images and videos Do we want to build the system for a certain volume of requests? Do you want me to consider the scalability part? I: Assumptions 1,2 & 3 are correct, ignore 3 for now Users: User b/w age 18-45 trying to generate GIFs using images(at least 3)"See full answer

Jacoby L. - "from typing import List def three_sum(nums: List[int]) -> List[List[int]]: nums.sort() res = [] seen = set() #avoid duplicates for i in range(len(nums)-2): #we stop 2 elements before the end because we leave space for the two pointer alg. l = i + 1 r = len(nums) - 1 threeSum = nums[i] + nums[l] + nums[r] while l 0: r -= 1 elif th"See full answer

Deepak S. - "I would understand the real cause of it. Is it really a time issue or motivation issue or skill issue. If we know the actual root cause, we can better deal with it accordingly. If it is a time issue, I would understand the work done by the team and related impact. Influence them to work on high impact work. If their work is also equally important, I would offer help from my team to heavy lift and they can just guide my team. I would partner with respective team owner to get more resources for f"See full answer

Prerak B. - "Would like to ask some clarifying questions: Is it a digital product? Yes? Application or website? Geography we are targeting? Assuming it is an app. Are we a new company or startup? Do we have any tie ups with other companies to reach a wider audience? Assuming I am the product manager of this application – goal of the application is to encourage voting more questions: Are we in the election year? Nearing the voting phase? If yes, then it will be easier for us to get users fo"See full answer

Anonymous Roadrunner - "def is_palindrome(s: str) -> bool: new = '' for a in s: if a.isalpha() or a.isdigit(): new += a.lower() return (new == new[::-1]) debug your code below print(is_palindrome('abcba')) `"See full answer

Shashank S. - "Prioritizing competing features involves evaluating and comparing different features to determine which ones to implement first, based on their relative importance, value, and impact on the product and users. Here are some steps to help prioritize competing features: Define the goals and objectives: Identify the product's overall goals, target audience, and key performance indicators (KPIs). This will help you understand what features are most important to achieve these goals. **Gather"See full answer

Harshit G. - "Great. I will start by understanding the goal of Google Photos and how it aligns with the goal and mission of Google. After defining goals, I will talk about the user actions which will contribute towards this goal. Based on these actions, we will define metrics. Check-in with the interviewer on the approach here. Assuming that this looks good for the interviewer to proceed. Google Photo - Helping users organise & manage their pictures. Completely in line with Google's mission. Thinking ab"See full answer

Scott S. - " Functional Requirements Content Ingestion\: Ingest news articles from various sources (websites, social media, etc.). Handle different types of content (text, images, videos). Content Analysis\: Extract and preprocess text from articles. Analyze the content for potential indicators of fake news. Model Training and Prediction\: Use machine learning models to classify content as fake or real. Continuously improve models with new data and f"See full answer

Sri A. - "Success for Yelp reviews. (assuming these are standard reviews posted by customers, for a restaurant or bar or a cafe listed on Yelp. Has a 5-star calibration that users can enter and free-form text.) Select Metrics should span the entire funnel across adoption, engagement, quality, and overall impact for Yelp. Adoption metrics: Total # of reviews written, Avg reviews/ listing Engagement metrics: # reviews being scanned, marked as being useful, etc. Quality metrics: %ge of disputed"See full answer

Rohan S. - "I got to play with a VR for the first time a few weeks ago at my friend’s house and I loved it, so this is a really fun question. Clarifying Questions Is this something we are looking to create Microsoft or are we a startup company etc? > Education can refer to elementary, high school, university, or even self-learning (e.g. Udemy). Is there a specific area we want to focus on? << What do y"See full answer

Michael N. - "The pain points articulated (no contextual recs, isolating experience, etc.) are pain points in the broader audio listening industry - there's no existing audio product at Meta already and assuming this is a net new product, wouldn't it have made more sense to have pain points specific to Meta? E.g. "there's no sense of real-time community in FB Groups" or "the barrier to engage in FB groups feels high" It almost feels like she just regurgitated things she's learned from her time working on Alex"See full answer

Pankhuri T. - "Clarifying Questions - Who are we referring to "friends" and "non-friends"? (My assumption is people who we follow and they follow us back are our FRIENDS and people who we just follow, recommendations by Facebook and all other content falls under NON-FRIENDS category, is it right?) Are we doing it putting a certain success metric in our mind? (Assuming none, just to make people's lives easy) Let's use a combination of GAME & 4W1H Framework here to evaluate this question **G"See full answer

Sandeep K. - "Clarifying Questions Improve Netflix; Geography? India Vision - Becoming the best global entertainment distribution service Objective: Growth Engagement Retention I would focus on Growth because Highly growing adoption of internet increasing purchasing power in T2&T3 Indian consumers are constantly in need of finding new content to watch aligned with Netflix strategy of producing content for indian masses I believe Netflix has a really good immersive viewing/wathcing"See full answer

Rudra pratap S. - "Spotify is a platform which allows users to listen songs across the globe with variety of songs+singers and also gives opportunity to singers to create some money. It’s mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it. Spotify’s discover weekly feature is well aligned with the mission of Spotify as it recommends songs based on their previous content"See full answer

Vijay P. - "Explained in STAR format one of the project situation where I had originally approved problem with different design which was correct approach that time. But as the project progressed that approach needed revision. Emphasized on facts why original approach was taken with points. Also focused tail end of discussion on learnings out of situation and how you end up deploying better solution from that learning."See full answer

Aakanksha R. - "My answer- A. Clarifying questions- External factors- Timelines, Geography, Competition Internal factors- Meta's goals for entering into fitness space, full-fledged app or part of any existing Meta app Goals- Will go after engagement, since it is a new app. B. Identifying users- Heavily/ Professionally into fitness Casual fitness enthusiasts Not interested in fitness C. Prioritizing user segments- I will prioritize #2. Segment #1 does not really need external motivati"See full answer

Mitchell K. - "How important are referrals? Do you need multiple vs. just one? Does it matter who refers you?"See full answer

Esha - "Clarifying Questions What do we mean by ‘improve’? Is there a certain goal that we are trying to attain? Is there a target user that we are going for? Any constraints or things to keep in mind when building this? Assumptions Only focused on google docs and not collaboration on other G-suite products such as PPT or sheets What is Google Docs? Web-based productivity tool that allows you to access your files from any computer through your gmail account. You can also share and"See full answer

Unicorn 2. - "I would ask what are the currently supported modes of transport. Assuming cars, luxury cars, transit. Bike and scooter is off limits. Also assuming Lyft is available only in the US currently. Then I would start off with the Goal. Why does Lyft want to launch a new mode of transport. Assuming possible reasons in order of priority: 1) To gain market share 2) To gain new users (riders/drivers) 3) Improve experience of users (riders/drivers) Do we have restrictions on country that we can l"See full answer