Interview Questions

S S. - "To answer this question, I’d like to first start with clarifying my understanding of FB stories and key elements that are essential towards setting the success goal. FB Stories : Very similar to IG stories and infact based on the success seen from IG Stories, FB stories allows users to create ephemeral/disappearing content lasting 24 hours . The content could be a video, collection of pictures or even text with added animations and other enrichment - emulating a storytelling style. Stor"See full answer

Manu G. - "I have a few clarifying questions before diving into designing a fridge for kids. What is this company in? - Startup exploring ideas to design fridge, or an already established fridge company - Startup Kids = which age group is referred to her or I can define the user segments? -* You can define it* Where is the refrigerator being used (household/school/daycare)? - Household Assumption: I am assuming Fridge's basic function is to freeze meats/ice cream/veggies etc and stor"See full answer

Himanshu P. - "def findfreetime(schedules): Step 1: Flatten the list of schedules into a single list of intervals all_intervals = [interval for schedule in schedules for interval in schedule] Handle edge case of an empty schedule if not all_intervals: return [] Step 2: Sort all intervals by their start time all_intervals.sort(key=lambda x: x[0]) Step 3: Merge overlapping intervals mergedbusy = [allintervals[0]] for currentstart, currentend in"See full answer

Dhruv M. - "While interning at Numerix Analytics, I was working on a campaign analysis project where I used customer engagement data to recommend which email subject lines performed best. Based on open rate data from the past two campaigns, I concluded that short, curiosity-based subject lines were outperforming more direct ones. I recommended using that style for the next major campaign. The marketing team followed my recommendation. However, the open and click-through rates for the next campaign dropped s"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

Mohammad M. - "Clarifying questions What is Facebook Events How does this work Is it only desktop based or app based as well Why Meta built it Core idea/tenet for Facebook is to have user engagement & to build everything around it. While people continue to interact with Facebook and create content on it, to increase the duration of engagement, having capability to host virtual events ensures community participation and making Facebook go beyond status and photo updates and let people coordinate"See full answer

Sydney S. - "When a question like this is asked what is really being asked is "how do you think about the elements that make up a product and how does each part add value?". I generally try to answer it with a feature that has to do with user interaction. Good answers to this question could include "I would add a button to edit a post, and make it more visible and accessible rather than buried in a menu". Your rationale might be "**because it encourages users to post without fear that they will make"See full answer

Ritu G. - "In order to earn team members trust you need to show - 1- You need to show them you trust them. Treat others the way you wanted to be treated. 2- Do what you say. Keep commitments. 3- Listen 4- Admit when you make mistakes 5- Consistently make good decisions "See full answer

Nikita G. - "Thanks for the question. The way I would like to proceed with this question is firstly, to get more context about the problem by asking some clarifying questions and narrowing the scope. Then, I would like to break the problem into smaller components to understand where exactly our problem lies. Then make a user journey for that particular area and identify the technical and non-technical factors which might affect this change specific to our company/product. Post that, I'll analyse the external"See full answer

stash - "To answer this question, I will first summarize the product and its use case. Thereafter, I will lay down the goals of the Company (LinkedIN) and the users with this product followed by going over user flows and determining what metrics we should use to measure success. We will go over a handful of metrics as a part of brainstorming but will only choose 2 or 3 to track overall success. Product Overview LinkedIn Events is a product will allows users to create online or offline events on Lin"See full answer

Dinar M. - " Thanks a lot for showing us how a recommender system can be build. I see it was proposed to use Collaborative filtering which is user - item matrix having dimension N * M (where N - number os users and M - number of songs). Though, it was explained how it gonna be built, it is still unclear how all users and songs features are going to be used. In that matrix we have values in cell (lets say i, j) like 1 - a specific user (i) clicked on song (j) when it was recommended or it is 0 when the user"See full answer

Praful B. - "The company culture is very supportive and collaborative. Googlers are encouraged to be creative and innovative, and there is a lot of freedom to explore new ideas. The work is challenging and rewarding. Googlers have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects that have a real impact on the world. The company is committed to diversity and inclusion. Google is a great place to work for people from all backgrounds and with all different perspectives. I am confident that I would b"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

Megha V. - "Gradient Descent is an optimisation strategy used in several supervised learning models. It is the technique for finding the optimum solution of an objective function. Typically, for a linear regression use case, it is used to find the weights and bias that produce the lowest loss. It involves computing the partial derivative of the objective function with respect to the weight and bias vectors. To find the optima of the function, the derivative is equated to 0, and iteratively the weight and b"See full answer

Jaison E. - "I broke down my answer into Understanding the goal, investigating the current state and its challenges, prioritizing opportunities, brainstorming solutions, and selecting solutions. To understand the goal and current state, I asked questions about the onboarding funnel and the conversion percentages. They have clear metrics to share, with the specific conversion rates for each stage. I then identified the subscription screen in the flow as one of the key opportunities, as most of the drop happ"See full answer

Aayush S. - "With $1 billion to invest in generative AI, my focus would be on addressing unmet needs in everyday life. Here's my vision: Identify User Pain Points: I would start by understanding the specific challenges a segment of users face daily. Many people are integrating AI into their routines to simplify tasks, yet there are gaps that need to be filled. Learn from ChatGPT’s Success: ChatGPT's rapid growth to 200 million users demonstrates the demand for AI solutions that genuinely solve"See full answer

Preetham m P. - "Clarifying Questions Are we an EdTech company adding this as a new arm, or building a new product? → New product Is the learning mode online or offline? → User can choose Are we focusing on any specific instruments? → No, any instrument Does our product include a marketplace for purchasing instruments? → No Are we building a mobile app or web platform? → Both, for India location User Personas Music Enthusiasts – Full-time learners aim"See full answer

Anonymous Grasshopper - "I'd like to start by understanding the basic scope of the change we've observed. Who is the user? Lyft is a two-sided marketplace so it could be the driver or rider. -Driver When did the change happen? Was it slow or a sharp drop-off? - sharp, 2 weeks ago Was there a specific geographic region? Urban v suburban? - no trends Cancelling can happen at several points in ride acceptance, is there a particular point where we see most cancellations? - just after accepting a ride"See full answer