Interview Questions

Kusheta K. - "In one of my projects, l analyzed customer purchase data for a retail company to under why sales were decrease"See full answer

Nimish J. - "The health of the product backlog can be determined by considering the following factors - Is the product backlog prioritized? Will each backlog be easily picked up by the engineering team i.e. does it have all the required details such as user story, acceptance criteria, and effort estimates? No items coming back to the product backlog from the sprint backlog due to incomplete development or bugs No of items moving to the "Done" state from the product backlog in each sprint A"See full answer

Deepak K. - "When I did't reach my expected deadline and if my work is unfinished after the deadline is arrived, I started rectifying the areas where I leg behind why i did't meet the expected deadline and i complete the work as soon as possible by working double and hard . And next time i will make sure that the problems which i faced earlier should not arrived again , and I mus match the deadline."See full answer

Vineet M. - "Precision - Out of all the things we picked as correct, how many were actually correct? recall - Out of all the things that were truly correct, how many did we actually find?"See full answer

Namu - "Provided an example from my work history where I asked to move the Go-live date to prevent launch date failure."See full answer

Saurao D. - "How many shampoo bottles are sold in the US annually? Assumption: Shampoo for both male and female consumers Population of US (330Mn) Considering 50:50 Urban Rural breakdown Urban: 165Mn Rural: 165Mn Considering only 10% of Rural consumers will be using shampoo, which gives 16.5Mn people Urban: 165Mn Considering 50:50 Male Female breakdown Male: 82.5Mn Male consumers using shampoo: 60% = 49.5Mn Male consumers not using shampoo: 40% = 33Mn Female: 82.5Mn Female consumers using shampoo: 80%"See full answer

Matan S. - "What are your top 3 favorite apps? (after picking one) How would you improve it? YNAB - You need a budget Robinhood Chase How would you improve YNAB? Clarifying questions What's my role? I'm a product manager at YNAB Why do we want to improve YNAB? Is there any specific goal? Structure YNAB - I'll share some information on YNAB Ynab's mission is to create the best budging app and empower people to gain control over their money and their life. Ynab's business model is a"See full answer

gdecuri - "Load Balancer, Multiple API Servers, game Service, pub-sub system, HTTP Long Polling for status updates, write-through cache. No SQL DB to store user, game, and move information."See full answer

Akshay D. - "SELECT u.user_id, u.user_name, u.email, ROUND(AVG(CASE WHEN b.status = 'Unmatched' THEN 1.0 ELSE 0 END), 2) AS avgunmatchedbookings FROM users u LEFT JOIN bookings b ON u.userid = b.userid GROUP BY u.user_id, u.user_name, u.email; `"See full answer

Bg - "Clarifying question: Am I the first one to notice the fire, or there are people already on it? Extent and source of fire - I am assuming it's localized and I am inside the data center, safe so far. Response: It is an emergency. I will do and coordinate the people to do the following in parallel, if I am the first one to know. Get immediate attention of folks in the data center. Get someone and many people to call 911 and security. Coordinate to have people in need evacuated. Turn off th"See full answer

M N. - "What is rider cancellation? Is it a rider requesting a ride but hitting the cancel button after the driver is on their way? Yes. I can see why it's concerning since that affects our # of completed rides and driver earnings. Let's try to understand the root cause. Rider cancellations have increased in what time period? We noticed it last week. Was it slowly dropping for a while or did we notice it only last week? It was a sudden drop last week How did other metrics behave last week? For eg,"See full answer

Krishnan S. - "Excellent job Roshan, really liked the explanation. Which software were you using to explain the system design diagrams?"See full answer

Bhavna S. - "Step 1: Define Objectives and Key Metrics Objectives: Understand the demand for group video calling. Assess the potential impact on user engagement. Identify technical and user experience considerations. Key Metrics: Call Frequency: Number of 1:1 calls per user. Call Duration: Average duration of 1:1 calls. Call Participants: Identify users who frequently call multiple individuals. Concurrent Calls: Instances where users are engaged in multiple 1:1 call"See full answer

Harshita G. - "Is the "idea" I'm trying to sell something new or built off an existing service/product we offer? Interviewer: Let's assume new. Assuming it's a proper sit-down meeting with senior management to go over the proposal, here is what the slide deck would contain. Introduction/Description of the problem I'm trying to solve: Before proposing a solution, it is important to first identify the problem we're trying to solve. This section would contain the description of the problem/pain poi"See full answer

Anonymous Krill - "Clarify the question. Any specific system? Will study the related systems in the environment. Will define the goal, attributes of the system, stakeholders expectations, problems this system is going to address in case these things don't exist already. With the above two steps, I Will come up with a draft of the System KPI. Will run it with leadership, stakeholders and will incorporate feedback. In parallel, will come up with quantification on these performance factors. Fina"See full answer

Geetesh T. - "Situation: While in the middle of a migration project, which required rewrite of services of my product into a cloud infra., we needed to configure our rules management services onto cloud as per legacy platform. The data extract of all the rules from legacy platform in a csv file needed heavy formatting to be usable for configuration of the new service. My entire engineering capacity was allocated on other prioritized ongoing feature migration and I had no bandwidth left in the ongoing spri"See full answer