Interview Questions

Anonymous Penguin - "(I don't think this is correctly tagged as behavioral, but wanted to attempt an answer) Since I can’t ask any clarifying questions I am going to make some assumptions. I am going to assume that this is an established travel company looking for new product opportunities to expand their user base. I am going to assume that it is a for profit and while their goal is ultimately revenue, the goal for this product is user acquisition and retention. I am also going to assume the target audience is indi"See full answer

Scott S. - " Last year, we were in the midst of a critical project to develop a new machine learning-driven risk analytics platform. This platform was intended to provide real-time risk assessments and predictive insights to enhance our trading strategies. However, midway through the project, our project lead unexpectedly had to take an extended leave of absence due to a personal emergency. This left the team without clear leadership during a crucial phase of the project. Stepping into the Leadership R"See full answer

Saran V. - "Understanding: Understand the reason for the pushback? Is the pushback related to any program constraints such as schedule, cost, quality, or scope? Is this pushback from a single stakeholder or a majority of the stakeholders? Working towards overall program goal: Explain how your idea is tied to the overall program's success metric or the goal Bring in data points to echo the above point Bring in examples of how this approach has helped in the past or with other competitors "See full answer

Saurabh K. - "Missing Item - User ordered multiple items, few items are missing Wrong Item - Entire order is wrong / there are items in the order that were never ordered How is this measured ? CSAT Missing Items Wrong Items Step 1 : Collect data on orders that reported missing / wrong items. Dive deep to understand if the problem is isolated to a specific metro/zip code/restaurant type (say fast food vs fine dine), time of day (lunch vs dinner), tenure of the courier on th"See full answer

Yogi S. - "Might be good to have also explained how the engineer wasn't aware of th expedition process that you as a PM were able to identify when you spoke to the PM from the team that was providing the API, was it just a simple of case of not having access to information that you were able to help surface ?"See full answer

Malay K. - "While answering such a question, it is important to focus on personal growth, learning, and how the experience improved your teamwork. You want to demonstrate self-awareness, humility, and an ability to adapt. I had this experience while working on a cross-functional project that involved collaboration between the engineering and marketing teams. In the interview, I shared a story when I misjudged someone and showed unconscious bias towards due their gender, ethnicity or age. It was embarrassin"See full answer

Rohit K. - "First, let's align the Airbnb homepage with Airbnb's mission. Airbnb's mission is to "create a world where anyone can belong anywhere by providing healthy travel that is local, authentic, diverse, inclusive and sustainable." The homepage serves as the primary entry point for both potential guests and hosts, setting the stage for their journey and embodying this mission. Now, for the goals of Airbnb homepage, we can consider different aspects like awareness, engagement, and ultimately, driving bo"See full answer

Himanshu G. - "To model ROI for a product launch, the first step is to define the timeline you're targeting Example 6 months post-launch, 1 year, or even 5 years. Tip: Start with a 1-year ROI projection to estimate near-term returns, and build a 3-year projection to evaluate growth and scalability. ROI is essentially the net return over that period: Profit=Revenue (within timeline)−Total Cost (from project start) Total Cost includes both fixed and variable costs incurred since t"See full answer

Cj K. - "Clarifying Q Is the search traffic meaning # visits clicked through the 'search' button from the homepage(search CTR)? or does this include # pages viewed after the search result pages (search depth)? Hypothesis I believe introducing Gen AI as a default feature on the Google's search box will increase #search traffic. I assume the biggest user pain point within current google homepage is that deciding on a keyword for search. Unlike other alternative platforms such as"See full answer

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

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

Sameer A. - "Google’s Mission: Organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible. Google offers perhaps the most consequential set services available on the internet today - Search, Maps, Gmail, Drive, Docs, etc. These services reach billions of users across the world and they are all available for free. Google is able to give away these services for free because of how their business model works. Google’s Business Model: Google makes money from Ads. They offer perhaps the most"See full answer

Dadja Z. - "Traverse the array of points while computing the distance and pushing it to the heap. Then traverse again the heap and pop the k closest. Time O(nlogn) Space O(n)"See full answer

Ekta M. - "Think of an operating system (OS) as being similar to a person managing household tasks like you! Imagine you have several chores to do around the house, such as cooking, cleaning, and praying. Each of these tasks is like an individual app. You, in this case, are responsible for ensuring all these tasks are completed smoothly. When you cook, you decide what ingredients to buy, how much of each, and which utensils to use. For cleaning, you assess what surfaces need to be cleaned, whether you need"See full answer

Ahna R. - " I would start by making sure we agree on what "improving Stripe Payments" means. What specifically are we looking to improve or are we focusing on improving the experience for a particular user group? Do we mean improving the experience for the developers building on Stripe or for the users checking out using Stripe? Once I got clarity I would share my proposed outline for a brainstorm: I would start by revisiting Stripe's mission and defining how Payments fit into that goal. I would then t"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

Kirubel D. - "Clarifying Questions (Noun, verb, and adjective) Pixel The Pixel Phone or are we talking about ore on the software? Hardware or SoftwareINT: This can be applied to both areas Best Compared to other related phones on the market? And do we have a specific time frame in mind?INT: we don’t really have a specific time frame maybe within the next couple of years. Best means comparing to other phones out there. Market Best when it comes to a particular feature or overall the user experience within"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

Akshay J. - "Started by asking clarification questions regarding design constraints and desired features. Break down the into re-usable components - HeroImg and Carousel (with 3 images rendered) Code the components and managed the state for both in the parent component."See full answer

Louie Z. - "DNNs can learn hierarchical features, with each layer learning progressively more abstract features, and generalizes better. SNNs are better for simplier problems involving smaller datasets and if low latency is required."See full answer