Interview Questions

Pathworks P. - "I would begin by asking the following clarifying questions: Are there any special use cases such as VIP Penthouse access, restricted floors etc? Do we need to consider safety requirements or other technical constraints such as maximum load/capacity? If the lobby for the entire hotel located on the ground floor? Can we assume that the majority of the guest amenities are located near the lobby and lower floors? Can we assume that the passenger controls on the floors are purely directional"See full answer

Dhruv M. - "While interning at Datavibe Solutions, I noticed that the operations team was still using manual Excel sheets to track vendor performance, which led to reporting errors and inefficiencies. I wanted to convince the team to adopt a Power BI dashboard I had created during my free time, which offered real-time insights and reduced manual effort, but some team members were skeptical about switching from a process they were used to. To build buy-in, I presented a live demo using their actual data, sho"See full answer

Meenakshi sundaram M. - "Structure: 1. Ask Clarifying Questions 2. Look at external factors 3. Look at Internal factors ( Slice the data aross different cuts and plan accordingly) Clarifying Questions: What's an outbound message? Is it something Linkedin users send among each other? Decline trends: Is the decline steep or gradual? From when, are we seeing this decline (Say since a week, fortnight, month, etc) External Factors: Have we seen any competition led changes/ new campaigns etc? Have we see"See full answer

Scott S. - " A couple of years ago, we were working on a project to integrate a new third-party data feed into our existing data processing pipeline. This data feed was critical for enhancing our trading algorithms with more comprehensive market data. Given the tight timeline and high stakes, I decided to push for a rapid implementation. In my eagerness to meet the deadline, I underestimated the complexity of integrating this new data feed. I did not allocate sufficient time for thorough testing and valida"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

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

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

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

Dan H. - "Assumptions Instacart for Business is core Instacart with additional features and capabilities tailored to businesses. Users Potential user segments: Office managers (Focus here) Entrepreneurs/small business owners Restauranteurs Opportunities (pain points, needs, problems) Many places don’t offer same-day shipping. Inconvenient to physically go out and purchase these items from a store if urgent Hard to predict an"See full answer

Bini T. - "I understand this is more focused on ML. However, I have a system question. If users allow us to access their location, or they send location via text box, could we use CDNs for the search without hitting our database? We only query the database when we have zero information on location. Other questions: does embedding always guarantee information on location? Do we discharge the user images after we return a prediction? I heard the feedback that we should keep it for future learning. What would"See full answer

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

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

Pm P. - "Clarification: Are we talking of Amazon as an entity in whole (or) Amazon E-commerce ? I would like to use overlap across following buckets with emphasis on current product & markets, Future adjacencies and expansions, strengths barrier to entry in the markets either way Amazon Intuit Products - Considering Amazon as a whole - Devices - AWS - E-Commerce - Music - Video - E-Books - All other services, currently there is no overlap between the use-cases and services offered"See full answer

Miguel C. - "Missing launch. Only design is covered."See full answer

Shuly A. - "Clarifying questions: How the hiring funnel looks like, where are the main drop offs, what are the longest phases, what systems we have in place for reminders and notifications. What should be the goal (double conversion, reduce time to hire) Offered some solutions, analysed them according to ICE framework, highlighter risks linked to solution. The last question was to pitch my suggested path to management."See full answer

Kartikeya N. - "Let me first start with some clarifying questions What do we mean by 10x? User engagement/ revenue/ acquisition?: Revenue Are we looking at global revenue or from a particular market like USA?: Global Are there any constraints or timelines for this ask?: Not much constraints, lets aim for a 10X increase in 5 years Sure, let me first start with the Goal of Duolingo. Duolingo’s aim is to simplify language learning and make it entertaining as well as educational. It is known for it’s use of"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

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

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