Interview Questions

Danyal R. - "Understand the problem: Chipotle is a chain, located across the US. It's in every major city Make Assumptions I'm assuming in each state there's approx 5 Chipotle restaurants. So in total across US there is 5 * 50 = 250 Chipotle's Let's calculate the sales revenue for a whole year. Create an equation Total Yearly Revenue = # of people going to Chipotle X* *frequency X cost of a meal Break down the problem \# of people going to Chipotle There's about 300M in the US. Out of 300M I'll a"See full answer

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: > I'll list the three biggest ways I think COVID-19 affected Amazon. Fulfillment Issues > I imagine Amazon is getting much more volume of sales then they were previously. Although Amazon had a lot of sales before, quarantine has caused many people t"See full answer

Sonali S. - "I would launch the self driving car e.g. Audi has done in the past. I would use AWS Deep Racer -> Rewards algorith and pythons function to do the same."See full answer

Exponent - "This is a classic Favorite Product question with a constrained product type. For this, we want to make sure it's an enterprise product. Let's go over the Favorite Product formula before diving in: Choose a product and briefly explain what it is Who are the users? What are their pain points? How did competitors solve it in the past? How does this product address these pain points differently and better? How would you improve it/make it better? **Su"See full answer

Samya S. - "Asked clarifying questions Thought through the motivation (came up with a mission and business model, modeled it on Safeway with agreement from the interviewer User segmentation both by age groups and behavior, then prioritized user group Went through user journey (both physical store and online) to identify pain points Prioritized pain points Came up with 5 solutions Interviewer picked one for me to deep dive. I went into detail on that one. "See full answer

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: > There's definitely a lot we could talk about, but I'll try to stay as focused as possible and talk about the three biggest ways it could have affected HelloFresh the most. Fulfillment Issues from Rapid Growth > I first imagine that HelloFresh expe"See full answer