Interview Questions

Ashvini B. - "Clarifying Questions: What's the goal of this feature? I am assuming the goal is to improve the experience. 2) Are we focused on any specific brand? Tesla, Waymo? - I am assuming in general 3) Market - US 4) For the purpose of this question, I am assuming elf-driving cars are fully safe/autonomous and doesn't need any attention from the users to reach from point A to B. Revised problem statement - Design a feature for self-driving cars to improve the experience. User-segments: People who use i"See full answer

Kumar A. - "scale low latency real time inventory and status updates"See full answer

Vicky X. - "4000"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

Adam C. - "Five to ten"See full answer

Anonymous Parakeet - "Clarifying questions: Does the home have to be fully paid off to consider the millenial a homeowner? No, they just need to have the title or put a loan on it We are only considering the continental US? Yes, not territories Just four wall stationary homes, not empty land, nor RV/trailer homes? Exactly Basic Facts: 70 million millennials 300 million US population Millennials have low rates of homeownership 130 million houses in the US Millennials span == 18 to 36 Breakdown: "See full answer

Ananya M. - "US population = 330M , 80M across 4 generations population that is physically able to travel, can afford travel, travels for business ranges between 20-60 year olds = 160M calculating maximum demand: long weekends in summer are peak travel times, lets assume 60% of population who are able and can afford travel, do so during long weekend = 0.6x160M lets say 60% of this population choses prefers domestic travel while 40% go international (consider Mexico, Canada, London are international"See full answer

Talles S. - "Me: thanks for the question, let me ask a few clarification questions if that's ok. Are those both personal and business users of Gmail? Interviewer: you can consider only the personal ones. Me: perfect, by personal ones, you mean the ones with [email protected], right? Interviewer: yes. Me: right, thank you. Also, are we considering e-mail users that use the Gmail platform or anyone who has a @gmail.com type of e-mail? Interviewer: anyone that has a @gmail.com e-mail. Me: Ok, finally, last"See full answer

Niaz - "Clarification questions: Does this include Street view photos, which includes (roads & highways, underwater & insider building and walking street view photos) ? No, for this question we will only look at photos taken via satellites. Google earth photographs the entire earth including land and oceans ? Yes Components of the equation (Square mile covering land x Number of photos per sq mile x Size of each photo x cost) + (Square mile covering ocean x Number of photos per"See full answer

Ananya M. - "What is the purpose of the scooters? (commuting outside office building , zipping across on the floor or for employees to be able to get to locations nearby e.g. lunch, coffee ) what kind of scooter are we talking about? something like lime bike? what is the shape of the building? , I long corridor rectangular in shape or oval corridor so I can go around. do the floors have any other facility like a moving walkway? are there food services in every floor? (assuming scooters aren't allow"See full answer

Jasmin R. - "Candidate: Before we go ahead I have a few clarifying questions, I’d like to ask. Interviewer: Sure. Candidate: What is the exact definition of a restaurant, are we counting coffee shops, bars, street food trolleys, homemade food shops that only has delivery to customers’ place and etc... kinds of a restaurant as well? Interviewer: let’s assume that we only mean restaurants that people can go inside, order some food and eat. Let’s not consider bars and coffee shops and so"See full answer

Anonymous Puma - "Assuming for the US Segment by size of businessNumber of employees per business sizePrice per employee=Revenue Price per employee should decrease with a larger employee base. 30M businesses in the US Small Business 60% of businesses are small=18M Average number of employees=50 Price per employee=$5 Small Business Revenue=$2.7B Medium Business 30% of them are medium=9M Average number of employees=1000 Price per employee=$3 Medium Business Revenue=$8.1B Large Business 10% of th"See full answer

Kwabena B. - "Assumptions This estimation will not take into consideration service fees, delivery fees, or tips we are specifically interested in consumer purchases of fruits and vegetables from local grocers (i.e. instacart, peapod, wholefoods/primenow, etc.) Fresh and frozen produce are in scope Equation NYC annual online produce purchases = (Num NYC households) x (% pop. that purchase produce online) x ($ spent on online produce purchases) (NYC HH) = 300M Americans --> 100M HH"See full answer

Sumeet R. - "Clarifying Questions: Assume US Audience or Worldwide? US Only Assume short form content or long form content ? Assume all Premium or Ads Support ? All Solution: US Population 300M Will remove 70 ages as not relevant audience or not have access to YouTube = 60m Leaving 240M. Adoption of YouTube with remaining Population = 60% (including overlap and exclusion with other services e.g. Netflix) Total Audience that watches YouTube daily = 144m (about half of US Populat"See full answer

Harshita G. - "Is the "idea" I'm trying to sell something new or built off an existing service/product we offer? Interviewer: Let's assume new. Assuming it's a proper sit-down meeting with senior management to go over the proposal, here is what the slide deck would contain. Introduction/Description of the problem I'm trying to solve: Before proposing a solution, it is important to first identify the problem we're trying to solve. This section would contain the description of the problem/pain poi"See full answer