Interview Questions

Takashi M. - "My approach is try to narrow down by 4W1H. When - When this happened? Still continuously happen the problem? Where - Is this happen specific region or entire customers? What - What kind of problem? One time big error or any data show the curve? Who - Is it all platform or specific platform (Web, iOS, Android) How - How serious problem? How many customer affected? Next step is to narrow down the causes is from internal factors or external factors. For internal factors: Any recent up"See full answer

Raul K. - "No of Cars in 1 year = [ Total Road Length] / [Distance Covered by 1 Self Drive Car in One Year] Clarifying Question - How does Mapping work? I assume the car has a bunch of cameras and the car needs to go via a road each once to do the mapping for Google Street view. Is that correct? Assumption Google Street view required cars to go via road once and then use camera for mapping Assumption for average speed of the car - This can vary if the car is on the highway Assumption of Area of"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

Ross B. - "I most want to communicate a few principals of conflict resolution that I believe were integral in this situation, which are mutual respect, a results orientation, an unwavering focus on the user. To that end, here’s how I’d like to structure this answer: First, I’ll tell you about the project we were working on, to provide some background for you. Second, I’ll describe the disagreement. Third, I’ll describe how we arrived at a solution, and finally, I’ll discuss how those 3 conflict resolution"See full answer

R K. - "I would start with some clarifying questions: What is the goal of the 'Report ad' feature? what do you think? Are we looking at the blue app or Instagram? The ad placement can be adjusted to the both apps, so look at it has a whole Are we looking at a specific location of the report ad? like stories or feed or reels? Nope Are we looking at a specific OS? everywhere Is there some timeline? or restrictions? no Are we looking at a specific market? worldwide Thank you, I"See full answer

Dheeraj D. - "Thanks Hozefa for your insights on this. I see that hozefa talks about giving used cases. It would be very helpful if there was an example provided with STAR framework."See full answer

Tony A. - "The correct question is: Build a product for celebrities to engage with their followers."See full answer

Atit P. - "I'd start by clarifying the purpose of the in-flight experience. Get more travelers? (adoption) Reduce customer churn? (retention) Gain additional revenue? (revenue) Lets say we want to offer an in-flight experience that drives revenue. It is intuitive that, customer expectations for an in-flight experience will vary based on the duration of the flights: Short haul flights (1 hour or less): Self-help options are better suited. While seating may be important, a slight inconvenience for"See full answer

Kiley S. - "Set Success metrics for Google Maps: Assuming we are focusing on mobile experience… Clarify the product: Overall, it is a directions app: Gets you from point a to point b Allows for several methods of transportation - car, public transit, walking, biking, rideshare After entering location, you click your transport method, and select get directions which leads you to steps to get to you location or if you are driving or walking it speaks to you giving youthe directions aloud based on sett"See full answer

Adarsh S. - "Hey, Thanks for the question - it’s an interesting real-life existing problem wherein a few of my friends and colleagues who have tried to work and travel have faced these issues at their respective airBnBs. Cool so this is the rough backbone structure that we can follow and ofcourse we can add meat later on to it and pivot if required. So here it goes: First would like to lay out the broader mission of Airbnb + WHY this is needed as to why we are doing this and then some clarific"See full answer

David E. - "Its enough that I shared the question. Im not going to tell you how I answered. If you dont know how to answer, then this isn't the job or company for you. Sorry."See full answer

Ajay U. - "// C++ program to print the count of // subsets with sum equal to the given value X #include using namespace std; // Recursive function to return the count // of subsets with sum equal to the given value int subsetSum(int arr[], int n, int i, int sum, int count) { // The recursion is stopped at N-th level // where all the subsets of the given array // have been checked if (i == n) { // Incrementing the count if sum is // equal to 0 and returning the count if (sum == 0)"See full answer

Anjali P. - "Question and video tagged not same. "See full answer

So X. - "Why is the value of an Android user only considering incremental clicks on ads instead of all clicks on ads?"See full answer

Anonymous Dove - "The Doordash post-order experience is the part of the service that happens after the user has placed an order and is waiting for the delivery. This experience can be improved by providing more information, communication, and convenience to the user. Here are some possible ways to do this: Provide real-time tracking and updates: Users want to know the status and location of their order, as well as the estimated time of arrival. By providing real-time tracking and updates, users can feel mor"See full answer

Adaneir W. - "Assumptions: LinkedIn: LinkedIn's goal is to sell premium to candidates and companies that recruit. It aims to have the largest number of qualified professionals in creative intellectual professions, who spend time on the platform and share content. LinkedIn's strategic direction:grow the Talent pool, encourage the Talent pool to better qualify themselves, to facilitate Talent search by recruiters in return, the more recruiters on LinkedIn, the more they can sell premium to talents who are"See full answer

K.nithish K. - "MOD = 10**9 + 7 def max_stability(reliability, availability): max_stability = 1 for r, a in zip(reliability, availability): Compute stability of the current server stability = r * a if stability != 0: Multiply into max_stability and take modulo maxstability = (maxstability * stability) % MOD return max_stability reliability = [1, 2, 2] availability = [1, 1, 3] print(max_stability(reliability, availability)) # Output the result mo"See full answer

Sneha S. - "Clarifying Questions Candidate : What is the objective we want to achieve? Interviewer : Enhance User Experience, User Engagement and add value Candidate : What platform are we looking at Mobile App or Desktop? Interviewer : Platform independent Candidate : Have we conducted any product discovery experiments at this point? Interviewer : Not yet Candidate : Can we assume the new features will cater to all professionals across different industries? Interviewer : Yes Candidate : A"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