Interview Questions

Geetesh T. - "Situation: While in the middle of a migration project, which required rewrite of services of my product into a cloud infra., we needed to configure our rules management services onto cloud as per legacy platform. The data extract of all the rules from legacy platform in a csv file needed heavy formatting to be usable for configuration of the new service. My entire engineering capacity was allocated on other prioritized ongoing feature migration and I had no bandwidth left in the ongoing spri"See full answer

Rani Y. - "I would start with clarifying questions : Are we building this feature on existing meta apps like Facebook / Instagram ? Yes AM I building this in Meta suite of products or a standalone app ? Inbuilt app with in Meta product like Fb/Instagram Timeline - 1 year Geography - USA Structure : Why -> Meta Mission -> Business objective -> User segmentation -Need ( Prioritization) -> Painpoints ( Prioritization)-> Solutions ( RICE prioritization) -> Metrics / NSM -> Risks - Summary Why : WIth multiple"See full answer

LateArriver - "A mature manager. Great conversational answer. I wish more sessions with him"See full answer

Anonymous Fox - "In what terms we need to improve the quality? Is there any focus on any particular host/customer experience? - Let’s consider that we need to improve the customer engagement on Airbnb platform. Airbnb has both - web interface as well as mobile interface. So, I am assuming the experience on both the platforms. I will brief about Airbnb - Airbnb provides homeowners to rent their spare rooms/properties to travelers/visitors and at the same time, travelers/visitors can get accommodation at budget"See full answer

EssGee - "I think i would start by asking what's driving the strategy for testing new ad formats? Possible options could be Increase monetization? Improve ad effectiveness? Any other objectives? Assuming that its both 1&2 - we want to test new ad formats to gauge if these are more effective and lead to higher monetization Ground the conversation into current scenario Instagram Reels is aa short form video platform that users use to showoff their creativity Reels is a relatively new addition to"See full answer

Pratik H. - "Clarify- 1) How much time do we have to do this?- 2 years 2) Is there a goal for this product?- We are looking toward engagement towards the Olympics 3) Are we building this for a global auidience or just the US- Up to you 4) Should I keep Meta's mission in mind here? Not necessarily...thinking through the Olympic committee lens Lets understand the Olympics. Its the games that are hosted once every 4 years. Its a global event that hosts many different athletes from various countries. There a"See full answer

Anonymous Prawn - "Would be better to adjust resolution in the video player directly."See full answer

Upasana S. - "Clarifying question: normally when we say design for , we mean the same product with features for the user segment. Here, is it okay to assume the meaning to be design a product from Netflix for dogs? Assumption: yes. Reason for assumption: an OTT app in its current form with movies and web series is not very suitable to dogs. We will start by analysing who the stakeholders are in the users. Dogs Pet owners Shelter workers. We will now explore some of t"See full answer

Sai vuppalapati M. - "At a high level, the core challenge here revolves around building an effective recommendation algorithm for news. News is an inherently diverse category, spanning various topics and catering to a wide array of user types and personas, such as adults, business professionals, general readers, or specific cohorts with unique interests. Consequently, developing a single, one-size-fits-all recommendation algorithm is not feasible. To enhance the personalization of the news recommendation algorithm,"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

Neeraj K. - "Clarify 10X -> usage or revenue Approach What is Msft Copilot & key capabilities Understand the space in which Copilot operates : Target segments & use-cases serve Competitors (alternatives) Leverage microsoft has : Understand the stack (infra -> application layer) -> leverage Understand Microsoft ecosystem & leverage we have Define : 10X growth strategy (for whom -> & what? -> distribution (acquire & retain)) MSft Copilot & key capabilities Cons"See full answer

Niranjan M. - "Interesting question. Let's take a step back and focus on the WHAT and WHY of Google Flights. The narrative for Google Flights as a product or platform imo is: As a platform, I wish to make flight information available, so that users can make knowledgable decisions based on their travel needs. So essentially, it helps users by providing information, so that they can make optimized decisions. In order to determine if Google should introduce ads, we should consider the impact on both val"See full answer

John F. - "Currently, I do a lot of data analysis using Azure Databricks and PowerBI. In Databricks, I write some basic SQL queries to retrieve the data and then pull that data into PowerBI for analysis. While this is sufficient, I believe there is room to make this skill set stronger. One way that I mitigate this currently is to maintain a strong relationship with our data analytics team. Whenever I have issues massaging or querying the data, I will reach out to one of those team members to help me get to"See full answer

Mohammed H. - "First i will collect relevant data,Actual problem,Necessary input and raw material then i will start design drawing,modeling,Callibration and finally handing over my work."See full answer

Singer29 - "Let me tell you about a time when my manager was on a two week PTO and I was building the post-MVP roadmap for a newly launched product. Being a SaaS platform for supporting restaurants, I'd led the conception, planning, development and launch of the MVP for an online ordering solution for diners in restaurants. After the launch of the MVP, our original plan was to build features which supported table-service restaurants like keeping an open tab. But while looking at the data, I realized that a"See full answer

Vikas T. - "Too much talk nothing concrete to know about the person that I am interviewing."See full answer

Soledad A. - "Where is the second part of the video?"See full answer

TurboPM - "Assumptions: Geo: US Channels: Both Mobile/Web Includes Stocks and other kinds of tradable financial instruments Product for end users and not for FB employees to trade stocks or financial Instruments Separate App or integrated within the FB Blue App? Integrated within the Blue App Constraints:None Why might this make sense for FB? Recently with the advent of free retail trading platforms like Robinhood stock trading has been democratized and common people, young and old, hav"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