Interview Questions

Dr. chantel P. - "Currently, I work in banking fraud detection. Recently, my teammate and myself were asked to assist the Check Deposits team in enhancing their fraud detection ML solution by evaluating new data sources and eliminating past data sources for possible lift. We retrieved data from Hadoop and Netezza databases including deposit transaction data, mobile & computer device, authentication logs, account balance, and customer demographic data. We then created new and recreated old features including tem"See full answer

Jacob C. - "Clarifying Questions: Does Google Photos and this feature come pre built into pixel phones or does user has to download the app or enable the feature? (N) - So adoption is not the problem. Do we have auto upload option available for users? (Y) So any user who has this turned on would not be using this feature. In other words, this feature is mainly used for selective upload I think on Pixel phones, Google photos provides unlimited high quality storage? (Y) Understanding the flow: Camer"See full answer

Andrew M. - "DMV is the Department for Motor Vehicles, notorious for long wait times and an overall poor customer experience. I'm not familiar with the different functions that the DMV serves, but from my understanding, people go to the DMV when they want to renew their drivers licenses, so I would like to focus on that for now. Current experience: Long wait time to get drivers license photo taken I am really not familiar with any other services the DMV provides, so I will focus on taking photos. Pain"See full answer

Dhruv M. - "During my internship at Inceptra Analytics, our team was working on improving the monthly reporting process for the operations department. I proposed switching from manual Excel reports to a Power BI dashboard to automate and visualize key metrics. However, some team members were hesitant—they felt the current process, although tedious, was more familiar and controllable. My task was to get buy-in from the team to adopt a more efficient reporting method without causing disruption or resistance."See full answer

Surbhi G. - "Hi Team, where can I see sample answers for this question?"See full answer

Amparo L. - "One time at Lifetime Fitness 2019, One student was throwing a lot of towels in the counter which made things very disorganized, then I made a compromise with my coworker to put 2 towels at a time and then it worked well because it made the workspace very organized."See full answer

Moshe S. - "Law is my passion. Traveling all over the world in 5 years"See full answer

Umang S. - "I would start by asking what exactly is Yelp for Business or defining the product, which is a way for local businesses to host their listings, allow reviewers to post reviews, and potential for businesses to promote their listings/businesses via ads. Then would define the goal of the product - if I assume - to connect people with your business. Then the golden question - why do we want to improve? Have we seen a downward trend? Have we had user or business feedback? Is there a"See full answer

M N. - "Ideas: Book a ride ahead of time on an app and provide timeslots. Have longer hours just for these rides so that people who care enough can go earlier. Distribute the demand by splitting a one-day ticket into 2 days so that traffic is distributed into 2 days. Fast pass add-on that lets you buy a fast pass for a specific ride instead of a combination. Have 2 of the top 3 popular rides and remove unpopular rides to use the space. Create a VR version of popular ride at the park so"See full answer

Anonymous Chickadee - "was there a specific scenario given for the interaction?"See full answer

Aravinth K. - "What is your experience with user testing? All products/feature I have worked on B2C space is primarily testing users for a hypothesis. Why B2C? Because you have millions of users who you have not met and also impossible to meet. Hence we formulate hypotheses and evaluate users' behaviour based on our goal. For example, one of the last features I worked on tried to answer the question "Will users who pay their bill using Net Banking use other payment methods if it is not shown to them?" Henc"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 resolution"See full answer

Stephen C. - "While helpful, this answer relies heavily on knowledge that you likely don't know in the actual interview! Instead, I would recommend thinking through a bit more of some of the factors you'll need to solve for, and then going from there. For instance, I could imagine thinking through: Latency Bandwidth (e.g. what is the expectation here? what kinds of data are getting sent?) Power consumption Reliability Hardware constraints (especially being on the moon) Thus, you can break down the"See full answer

M N. - "Let's look at what the goal is- why we want to understand customer satifaction, and understand what actions our users take where we collect user feedback and then figure out the metrics that track these feedback touch points to understand cust satisfaction. Goal: To understand more about customer satisfaction and loyalty with the product to understand any gaps and understand where we stand with the competition, beyond the engagement, retention and revenue metrics. Actions: We have different"See full answer