Interview Questions

Tanu M. - "I always look at the project from three angles, Scope, Schedule, and Cost. To measure the success of the project we also have to look at the other factors, other than the scope, schedule and cost. Here are some of the factors I look at while measuring the success : Metrics : While defining the Goal of the program, we also define the metrics. To assess whether the goal is getting achieved or not, we need to measure the metrics i.e whether the metrics of the program are getting hit or not. For e"See full answer

stash - "Clarification What does showing ads mean ? Is it showing outside of the car as a mobile billboard or showing inside of the car on screens? —> Inside of the car / digital ads What is our product strategy with Waymo. Do we want to get into the ride hailing business or license our tech —> To be defined by you Do we have any near or long term revenue goals for this —> Get wide usage of Waymo tech and be a key driver in accelerating the adoption of self-driving cars accessible in the world"See full answer

Mike C. - "Before I dive in, I have a few questions - what defines 'quality' and can it be quantitatively measured? (quality is based on the ride score given to each driver) To begin, let's define Lyfts mission. Lyfts mission is 'to improve peoples lives with the best transportation.' Next, I will define the different user segments Lyft serves, select a high-impact user segment, define their pain points, solve for a particularly affecting pain point, and promote solutions. I will discuss metrics once I h"See full answer

Kiley S. - "Measure Success of FB rooms. First I would like to clarify my understanding of the product: FB Rooms is a video call product similar to zoom in which a user can create a room and then invite people to join either with Facebook, if they are already friends or with a link or invite. Able to use filters and virtual backgrounds Now that we have aligned on the understanding of the product, I would like to think about the goals for the product. Goals: Business goals: Rooms was FB’s"See full answer

Rahul B. - "Clarifying Questions: Does parking mean a parking area where vehicles have a space to park? - Yes Are we looking at a particular geography? - UK market Roadmap of the answer: I am going to look at different users, their use cases on when they would want to park their vehicle, their pain points, the possible solution for this product, the MVP of the product along with the features and the metrics to be tracked Different User Personas: Private car owners: Park car when they go out for socializing"See full answer

Anonymous Possum - "#inplace reversal without inbuilt functions def reverseString(s): chars = list(s) l, r = 0, len(s)-1 while l < r: chars[l],chars[r] = chars[r],chars[l] l += 1 r -= 1 reversed = "".join(chars) return reversed "See full answer

Anonymous Newt - "CQ: Goal - connect two large continents, reduce the distance Is it a motorable bridge -? Any specific use case on mind? Summarise: come up with the use cases of the bridge Google’s mission -> organise world’s information and make them more accessible and useful A bridge that way is a great way to reduce the distance between two large separate continents. This bridge can help spread information faster Possible Use cases of the bridge: Transportation of physical goods: Since road tran"See full answer

Sumeet R. - "Got a very different answer than everybody. I seem to be off here. But here goes ..will appreciate feedback Clarifying ..all human population in US and not just working population? Yes US Population: ~300Mn Segmenting Population. 0-19 - 75M 20-40- 75M 41-60 - 75M 60-80- 75M 80-100 - 5 Mn Removing 80 segment as stay at home and not eligible for commuting Revised Table 2-19 - 75M 20-40- 75M 41-60 - 75M 60-80- 75M Out of this employable audience that is has"See full answer

Ben G. - "Ask Follow up Questions Is this for specific type of user or open? Do we have any past research that has been done? Do we have an idea of company and user goals? Do we have metrics of success? Are there any existing constraints? Why  |  5 min Why is this product or feature important? How does this product benefit customers? What business opportunities does it create? What is our hypothesis? What are our company goals? Who  |  3 min Who are the different types"See full answer

Rahul D. - "What will be the technical Interview looks like for Program Manager at Microsoft? What types of questions they generally ask."See full answer

Nithesh S. - "Before getting into the solution aspect, let us revisit Amazon's mission. Mission: Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Participants: Therefore any improvement in the marketplace should be in sync with this thought process. Participants in the marketplace have both buyers and sellers. We can improve the platform either of them or both of them. **Wh"See full answer

Himanshu V. - "Video engagement: time spent, frequency, recency Video completion rate Time spent on Facebook vs Time spent on watching FB videos Video recommendation: Switching from 1st to 2nd and so on "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

Anonymous Cheetah - "First profile the URL/Webpage to see which components are limiting/blocking the loading of Web page. Based on the observation, identify if it is the latency, server, network or the sheer number of elements that make up the page. Accordingly plan the optimization strategy."See full answer

Debajyoti B. - "As far as i know, when we type a web address in the browser- the broswer connects to the DNS server & finds the address of the website we are looking for after finding it, the browser sends an HTTP request message to the server,with a request to send a copy of the website to the user. all of this information is sent using TCP/IP protocol across your internet"See full answer

Dhruv M. - "During my internship at Inspira Analytics, our intern team had worked for two weeks on a client presentation for a new data dashboard. Unfortunately, during the final review, the manager pointed out several major flaws in our analysis and asked us to redo the entire structure. The feedback was blunt, and the team felt discouraged, questioning whether our efforts were even valued. As the informal team lead, I felt responsible for helping lift the team’s morale and refocus everyone so we could del"See full answer