Interview Questions

Shahrukh K. - "When I transitioned from the Analytics team to the Product team, I faced challenges in gaining the trust of the engineering team. Having previously worked with them in a role where I provided insights rather than defining their priorities, they were initially hesitant to accept my inputs in my new role. This led to some misalignment, as they chose to focus on tasks independently rather than incorporating my recommendations. Recognizing the need to build credibility, I took a proactive approach."See full answer

A R. - "I liked the role of a TPM due to the opportunity to contribute to the multiple dimensions of software product development. As a TPM I need to collaborate with multiple teams like Engineering, Product, and other business functions, but I also get the opportunity to contribute to the technical aspects of the program/project. I can use my sharp analytical skills to identify/anticipate problems, and leverage my problem solving skills to unblock the teams. I orchestrate multiple teams effort to del"See full answer

Anup S. - "Inventory Service and Registration service can they be in SYNC always ?? The "experience layer" needs accessed by Hotel owners also ??? How does real time inventory come from all Hotels ???"See full answer

Geet B. - "Prompt: Define success of reels How do I investigate if reels engagement is up by x, posts are down by y Clarification: What is reels: video experience on explore page, play page. Can have comments, likes etc. Why was it launched: to promote engagement on the app, 'addictive sessions back to back. Product goal: Increase in app time, drive stickiness. Big picture: Instagram launched reels post tiktok style success, way to saving market share Define success"See full answer

Amparo L. - "One time at Lifetime Fitness 2019, One student was throwing a lot of towels in the counter which made things very disorganized, then I made a compromise with my coworker to put 2 towels at a time and then it worked well because it made the workspace very organized."See full answer

Avon T. - "Initialize left pointer: Set a left pointer left to 0. Iterate through the array: Iterate through the array from left to right. If the current element is not 0, swap it with the element at the left pointer and increment left. Time complexity: O(n). The loop iterates through the entire array once, making it linear time. Space complexity: O(1). The algorithm operates in-place, modifying the input array directly without using additional data structures. "See full answer

Deepak V. - "Clarification: Lender Focus: We'll cater to mortgage lenders, specifically smaller institutions or those specializing in a particular loan type (e.g., first-time homebuyer loans). 1. User Personas and Pain Points: Create two user personas: Persona 1: A loan officer at a small credit union overwhelmed with manual paperwork and slow communication with borrowers. Persona 2: A loan manager at a company specializing in FHA loans, struggling with cumbersome pre-qualification"See full answer

Ram - "Clarification Are we focusing on the Amazon shopping cart specifically, or are there any other features involved? Are there any specific user groups (e.g., Prime users, international users) we need to consider? Is there a particular focus on conversion or user engagement? 1. Business Context Feature Goal: The cart serves as the gateway between user interest and the actual purchase, helping to reduce friction in the buying process. Business Model:Amazon take"See full answer

Snehangsu B. - "In a recent implementation of a large core banking project where we were breaking away from monolithic architecture to microservice based one we faced a situation where customer wanted to have a single repository of user and role management. Since Micro service based architecture talks about individual entities for multiple product suite it was mandatory to maintain individual user base. Based on the customer feedback, we had to come up with an unique design of single user base and replicating"See full answer

Soutrik M. - "Applying the STAR method to explain a time when I had to teach myself certain skills to meet project demands. Situation : I was working for a medical devices company that didn't have CI-CD setup for its embedded software Task : Build the entire CI-CD pipeline from scratch using the tools available within a month Action : I had to learn Docker and other basic DevOps technologies to build this Result : We were able to reduce build time by 70% and create a process for package manage"See full answer

דניאל ר. - "Implemented a recursive function which returns the length of the list so far. when the returned value equals k + 1 , assign current.next = current.next.next. If I made it back to the head return root.next as the new head of the linked list."See full answer

Dhruv M. - "During my internship at Lumora Analytics, I was tasked with creating a dashboard to track supplier performance using real-time data. Midway through the project, I hit a roadblock when one of the key data sources was delayed due to access issues with the external vendor’s system. Despite the delay, I had to ensure that the dashboard development stayed on schedule so it could be presented to leadership by the end of the week. Instead of waiting passively, I immediately informed my supervisor and o"See full answer

Mohammed H. - "First i will collect relevant data,Actual problem,Necessary input and raw material then i will start design drawing,modeling,Callibration and finally handing over my work."See full answer

Ammro H. - "I am not sure if I agree with the approach taken in the mock video. Should FB build a tablet? is not the same as "Design FB tablet." This is an analytical decision question, not a design question. I would have done strategic analysis using Porter's five forces or maybe SWOT and value chain analysis to decide rather than designing a product. My answer will be to examine critical factors to decide to build tablet vs. to build apps for existing non-FB tablets (ipads and android tablets) Users"See full answer

P K. - "Assumptions: Part of the core FB product and not standalone app/ Education for children in 13-18 range Goal: To improve the education of children while building stronger social networks with their family/friends and thus further the mission of the company of bringing the world together and offering tools to form communities. Key user segments: Students (middle and high school) Teachers Parents For the purpose of this exercise, I would like to focus on the student user gr"See full answer

Srini K. - "performance issues and sudden spikes on input requests by scaling techniques and optimization."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

Victor N. - "--country names are UPPERCASE but the table in the in the question showing lowercase. That's why it took me a while to figure it out until I ran the country column WITH RECURSIVE Hierarchy AS ( SELECT e.Emp_ID, CONCAT(e.FirstName, ' ', e.MiddleName, ' ', e.LastName) AS FullName, e.Manager_ID, 0 AS Level, CASE WHEN e.Country = 'IRELAND' THEN s.Salary * 1.09 WHEN e.Country = 'INDIA' THEN s.Salary * 0.012 ELSE s.Salary "See full answer

Aarav G. - "Is there a reason a confidence interval was used to solve this problem over just using the mean/expected value directly?"See full answer