Interview Questions

Neha A. - "FB Vision Why is this problem important - bad ads can drive customer churn and pose reputational risks in terms of law suits. What is a bad ad defined as - we will exclude ad relevance. any ad that is inappropriate, harmful, and misleading. What is the user journey >> Businesses creates ads, ads are verified by FB team who will remove any bad ads, ads get published after verification, user sees the ads, reports if they dont like it, and the team verifies it again and if bad, removes it. N"See full answer

corrie881 - "The question is about Netflix users decreasing 10%, not about delivery app."See full answer

Aashka C. - "Sorted the array and stored the minimum difference in a variable and then traversed the array for the pairs having minimum difference"See full answer

Venkata rakesh M. - "Here if we breakdown each dependency [A,B] , We need to check if there a cycle in Dependency Graph. If there is cycle installation is not possible, If there is no cycle installation is possible. Steps : 1: Build the graph 2: Perform DFS based Cycle Detection 3: Check each package if those packages have cycle or not."See full answer

Ama M. - "Answering only estimation portion for practice (for some reason after submitting the formatting is unorganized) clarification and assumptions can I assume this grocery store location is called Greens can I assume that self-checkout means that customers checks out without assistance? can I assume that cashier checkout means that cashier assists customers with checkout? can I assume that ratio means how man self-checkouts should be place at this grocery store compare"See full answer

Sachin P. - "The key here is a) not to overreact to Sales bypassing me going straight to Engineering (while understanding every team acts according to their incentives), and b) communicate with all parties as much as possible to get everyone on the same page. 1) First, I'd speak to Sales and understand the feature being requested. I consider Sales to be one of the most important primary research funnels - they have direct, regular touchpoints with the client and are finely attuned to the lifeblood o"See full answer

Vijay P. - "Explained in STAR format one of the project situation where I had originally approved problem with different design which was correct approach that time. But as the project progressed that approach needed revision. Emphasized on facts why original approach was taken with points. Also focused tail end of discussion on learnings out of situation and how you end up deploying better solution from that learning."See full answer

Hari priya K. - "Netflix is a OTT platform that streams content , TV shows, movies documentaries, to the subscriber's of Netflix. Netflix has approximately 90 million subscribers in USA alone and Netflix's revenue is generated based on their subscriptions. The user buys Netflix subscription, logs in , opens profile and opens the home page of Netflix. 1. Confirmation of the Assumptions Homepage Definition: The homepage is the screen users see after logging into their profile, showing tailored recom"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

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

Aeshvarya J. - "Clarifying questions : When we speak about video buffering, are we looking at long video (more than an hour), medium video, short videos and shorts? I will assume its all video types. Is this was a steady increase or sudden one and over what time period? I will assume sudden one over last week? Has we experienced any such issues in the past or trends? I will assume no. Are we experiencing this globaly or for some region? I assume globaly The KPI we are measuring is Average Video Buffering T"See full answer

Hans - "Situation: Was given negative feedback about an aspect of my communications. The person said it made them worried because of the brevity and the format of some messages. (Their worry was that a longer negative message was coming) Task(s): Reflected on feedback about my communication style. Acknowledged the point. Assumed best intentions on the part of the person giving the feedback Saw things from the other person's point of view Action(s): In private - Apologised to the person wh"See full answer

Takashi M. - "First of all, I’d like to identify what is Google’s business model and Google’s presence in the emerging market. I can categorize 3 main buckets. Consumer, developer, enterprise business. Google mainly offers a free Android OS platform and several services; such as Gmail, Google Map, Youtube, and Search engine for consumers business. The consumer can use those free services in exchange for providing data. That is the main hook for the ads revenues. For the developer’s segment, Google provides"See full answer

Michael F. - "Prompt: We work for an online shopping website. Our team wants to consider offering discounts (e.g. 10% off your next purchase) to customers to incentivize them to make purchases. How would you design a system that decides how to offer these incentives? Answer Goals: Increase customer engagement while controlling costs. Specifically, we want the increase in revenue per customer per week of customers that receive the discount to be greater than the cost of the discount. Metrics: Revenue per cu"See full answer

A G. - "Clarification Qs: What does "split" mean here? - split the UI and if so how (through tabs?) What counts as "media" - clarified already What is prompting us to consider this change? - any negative feedback from the users/ decrease in certain Newsfeed metrics like engagement etc/ any particular business goal? is this across or platforms eg desktop/mobile ? Is this for all regions? Mission of FB: Fb's mission is to bring people closer together by enabling them to build communiti"See full answer