Interview Questions

Adhitya G. - "Clarifying Questions: Product → It is a online Professional Services platforms where jobs are made much easier for both recruiters and for job-seekers Goal → Increase Number of Users/ Any other Business Goal? Mission → It is to make job-posting/seeking completely hassle free and accessible to everyone. Do we have any timeframe to do this and is there any growth rate that I should be targeting? - 5x in 5 years Students → Are we focusing on Full-time or Part-time students? Any"See full answer

Dan D. - "I love the answer and framework, my summary of the interview: it is a slightly modified version of Porter's 5 Forces: User benefit -> Bargaining Power of Buyers Apple benefit -> Talks about the company mission and culture (esp. on the relatively closed eco-system) It was expanded more in the latter half of the interview (SWOT + a bit of Value Chain) Competitive landscape -> Industry Rivalry + Threat of New Entrants + Threat of Substitutes Partnership Impact -> Bargaining Power of"See full answer

Miguel C. - "Missing launch. Only design is covered."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

Anonymous Newt - "CQ: What's the goal - we are just exploring Any specific timeline we are targeting - NA Why specifically podcast - its a growing area and can help engage the customers Any specific geography to be kept on mind - You tell Approach: Understand Netflix’s landscape Understand more about the Podcast space via Porter’s 5 Forces framework Decide mode of entry Tradeoffs & Risk Netflix’s landscape; Product - OTT player Who uses - kids, adults When do they use – leisure"See full answer

Reach G. - "What is Facebook Live? Facebook Live is the posting of a live video -> Virtual events, QA, conversation, presentation/performance. It can be on your Facebook page, event, or group. Mission Facebook's mission is to connect people and bring the world closer together. The mission of Facebook Live, from my perspective, is to enable individuals to engage ( message), discuss, and learn in real-time with their role models, influencers, and others to discover and establish stronger connect"See full answer

Praful B. - "The customer's business needs and requirements. The technical aspects of their legacy system. The budget and timeline constraints. The risks and mitigation strategies. The customer's specific concerns. Assess the feasibility of migrating their legacy system to the cloud - This will involve evaluating the technical aspects of their legacy system, as well as the business impact of the migration. Develop a migration plan -This plan should outline the steps involved in migrat"See full answer

Guilherme F. - "A much better solution than the one in the article, below: It looks like the ones writing articles here in Javascript do not understand the time/space complexity of javascript methods. shift, splice, sort, etc... In the solution article you have a shift and a sort being done inside a while, that is, the multiplication of Ns. My solution, below, iterates through the list once and then sorts it, separately. It´s O(N+Log(N)) class ListNode { constructor(val = 0, next = null) { th"See full answer

D S. - "Estimate Google ads revenue. Clarifications: Google ads: only includes ads shown on Google search pages. It does not include any other ads such as display advertisement etc. Google makes money everytime a user clicks on an ad. Market - US Monthly / Yearly - Yearly Revenue in $ For 2020 ? - yes So to state the Q again, I have to estimate Google’s annual search ads revenue for 2020. Ads revene =( $ads clicked everyday * avg price per ad ) * 360 $ads clicked every"See full answer

Sri A. - "Mission: to help users buy and sell products from groups. If we think about the value here, users want to join groups that sell/buy products of interest (young moms or vinyl), or location of interest, or trust, or some other factor - either from other users or SMBs. User Actions: create groups, join groups, active in groups - make posts to sell or show interest in buying (like, commenting, sharing or ideally transacting) deeper engagement - sharing , saving , searching more based on wh"See full answer

Puneet A. - "I recently had an experience with the Chipotle mobile app where I accidentally placed an extra order. Realizing my mistake within seconds, I tried to edit or cancel the order but found no option to do so in the app. Despite searching FAQs and attempting to contact the local store, I couldn't resolve the issue in time. This experience highlighted the importance of user-friendly design and clear communication in apps. If I were managing such a product, I would advocate for features like a grace pe"See full answer

Product V. - "Clarifying Statement - Stripe has a bunch of B2B products aimed at SMB's My favorite Product - Stripe Atlas Why - it solves a real need to simplify the process and workflow to start a business and navigate through the hurdles of opening online shop in a foreign country"See full answer

Simon O. - "Functional Requirement Ingest Book Reviews in real time User in the website needs specify title tho search books, return response is the list of reviews on the books. Non Functional Requirement: User get real-time book reviews> It nees to handle the search among 1 million of active users daily"See full answer

Anirudh G. - "Questions for interviewer: How many team members are there? How much is the bandwidth required for each user? As of now radio-frequency (RF) signals are used to communicate with Moon. However in order to create a high speed network, we should be using laser communications. NASA has done research on it and results have proved that it is 10-100 times better than RF signals (around 100 Gbits/second). Geosynchronous satellites must be used to send communications and data back and forth betwe"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

Anonymous Muskox - "YouTube Goal -> Give voice to everyone and show them the world, Video -> Shorts( Dominated by Shorts, Reels, Tiktok Mid(1-25 Min). -> Youtube Medium Long(60-90 Mins) -> [Opportunity] Long(150-180 Mins) -> OTT Platform, Movies Youtube can assist content creators on Youtube to make high-quality Film Like Videos without any Production Setup. Assisting Content Creators to create Movies with"See full answer

Kartikeya N. - "Clarifying questions: What city/ country are we talking about? Indian metro. What all counts as a grocery store? Do have to cover dark stores as well which are not open to public? Only consider all grocery stores where public pick up is allowed. Do we have to include hyper markets/ super markets as well or only smaller stores? Include both. Okay, so I would be considering the Indian metro of Bangalore here. The overall equation is , **total number of grocery stores = Number of small grocer"See full answer

Googlepm 1. - "Getting things done. Since the job is all about leading without authority, it is important to always have the north star in mind. When all in the team do not agree or see a potential solution: Data based evidence : Provide testing results/ Analysis results/ PoC on showing why a potential solution might be better than others, Bring in a trusted stakeholder : Have a conversation with the trusted stakeholder who first believes in the solution, then vouches for the solution to the team "See full answer