Interview Questions

Shiv C. - "Clarifying Questions What is meant by art-related product? Is it a product where art can be shared by creators and viewed by viewers? Yes What is art? It can be painting, song, video creators etc. Meta Mission: To form a worldwide community Goals: Brings creators and viewers worldwide To strengthen the Meta community Strengths Social network Users Creators (L, L, L) Viewers (L, L, L) User Journey 1."See full answer

Tony A. - "There are two parts to this questions: Part 1: Why did Meta create Rooms? ( limiting to video collaboration) Answer: Potential reasons for Meta to create their own Zoom equivalent: Provide a video collaboration platform to employees. Due to size and global distribution of its workforce it may make economic sense to make an in-house product that is cheaper than buying an enterprise license of Zoom Meta already has the technology and infrastructure to do videocalls and meetings because of"See full answer

Anonymous Tortoise - "Questions? -Geography - US/ International Model? SEXY? Model 3 Most used. Timeline - 3 Quarters? Increase engagement? - Existing people Tesla - Electric company that builds EV cars. Mission- To accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy? Mission Why - To increase the engagement - active users Recent Trends - Apps are rising on Apple Watch Ease of Use? Portability? Customer Segments New people who bought Tesla Existing People Models - Model 3 Fleet Owners ["See full answer

William D. - "Clarify: I'm assuming that a workplace chat app is similar to something like Slack or Teams, which is a web app/mobile platform for employees to securely message each other directly or in a grouping (i.e. a channel). I'm also assuming that this workplace app is for a generic company, and not Microsoft or Salesforce. Goals: Workplace apps serve a vital connective tissue within enterprises to allow employees to freely message one another and collaborate on projects. These services a"See full answer

Volderdore - "Population of Bangalore - 1.4 cr On an average 4 people live in 1 householde=> 1.4cr/4 => ~35L HouseHolds Out of the 35L Household, 30% household fall below poverty line are not interested in ordering online due to their own personal reasons prefers to visit to the hotel directly and eat instead of ordering online => Thus remaining is ~25L households out of the 25L households, assuming at least 20% of the households place one order on average on any given day will lead to 5L orders"See full answer

Rahul G. - "50% of users spending money on play store at a global level sounds off I would factor this to maybe 20% of play store users I'd go about solving for it as follows: Play store revenue has multiple revenue sources and in my view all are significant contributors, they are as follows: Ads Subscription revenue from app In app purchases I'll start with TAM(user count) for google play store = (population x internet penetration rate x smart phone share of internet users MINUS china user ba"See full answer

Kishor J. - "we can use two pointer + set like maintain i,j and also insert jth character to set like while set size is equal to our window j-i+1 then maximize our answer and increase jth pointer till last index"See full answer

Ama M. - "Answering only estimation portion for practice (for some reason after submitting the formatting is unorganized) clarification and assumptions can I assume this grocery store location is called Greens can I assume that self-checkout means that customers checks out without assistance? can I assume that cashier checkout means that cashier assists customers with checkout? can I assume that ratio means how man self-checkouts should be place at this grocery store compare"See full answer

Sohum S. - "I would assume that this is similar to an intervals question. Meeting Rooms II (https://www.lintcode.com/problem/919/?fromId=203&_from=collection) on Leetcode seems like the closest comparison, it's a premium question so I linked Lintcode. I'm assuming that we also need to just return the minimum number of cars used. You need to sort for the most optimal solution, so you're constrained by an O(nlogn) time complexity. So any sorting solution could work (using a heap, sorting the array input arra"See full answer

Bk - "To bring any product to market here are the below steps that I would (did) take: 1.Understand the problem stmt / stakeholder need and asses depth of the problem (qualitatively and then gather metrics to quantify it) 2.Do market study on understanding relatable solutions if any 3.Carve out viable solution/ideation that aligns with overall Business Vision/Goal 4.Get stakeholders buy in on the idea 5.Guesstimate and prioritize high level features, Cost and ROI. 6.Build Business case for Project Le"See full answer

Anonymous Muskox - "Interviewer : How would you reduce ride cancellation on Uber ? Shailesh : Okay before I jump onto the solution, I would like to clarify some points for better understanding. So ride can be cancelled from the both the parties rider and the driver ? So which side are we talking about ? Interviewer : we are seeing more cancellation from diver side. Shailesh : From how long we are seeing this trend ? Interviewer : you can say from an year. Shailesh : Okay, also are we seeing these cancellations from"See full answer

Harish K. - "So for launching Netflix's first ads program involves introducing a lower-priced ad-supported tier to attract price-sensitive users and boost revenue without loosing existing subscribers. Tier Structure: Offer a "Basic with Ads" tier priced 30-40% below Standard, with 4–5 minutes of ads/hour. Ad Experience: Use pre-roll, mid-roll, and pause ads, ensuring relevance and minimal disruption. Tech & Partnerships: Partner with ad-tech providers for scalable delivery and build a sa"See full answer

Bailey O. - "For this answer, I'm assuming that I'm a PM who has just started at this company. I assume this product is a growing start-up and that's why I wasn't familiar prior to taking the role. Understand the business, mission, and product's context: Understand the company mission, values, vision Understand any near-term/long term company goals Meet & listen to key stakeholders & decision makers Build relationship with team members Understand who the first 'sale' or 'bu"See full answer

Bhavna S. - "Before diving into the Solution, I would ask a few clarifying questions. What is the scope of the fake news What type of fake news are we focusing on - Political, Health-related, etc Are we looking at specific examples or a general category of fake news When you say impact, what do you mean by that? Is it time spent on posts, the nature of the engagement (e.g., likes, shares, comments), and the sentiment of the comments? User Demographics: what is the demographic pr"See full answer

Maggie Y. - "8 Questions in 1 hr. no additional info is available from the interviewer, not much interaction. I still don't quite understand their objective."See full answer

Darren L. - "First I will set up the formula, second I will calculate each of the components then adding them up. Finally, I will talk about corner cases if any. 1, To begin with, I want to think broadly what could go into the equation. Bandwidth depends on number of devices at a time, so if a student use both laptop and phone at the same time then we have 2. Beside, grad students need internet for various reasons, such as checking email, searching on Google for information, watching lectures... Different a"See full answer

Oriole O. - "Situation : During my time in my previous company, I was leading a program which involved a cross-functional team. The project was to migrate all the legacy servers to Azure and had a tight deadline of 4 months. Each team had distinct goals and responsibilites to be delivered Task : My task was to collaborate with the multi regional team and ensure a smooth delivery within the defined budget and schedule. Action : I believe communication is the key to handle a cross-functional team"See full answer