Interview Questions

Nithesh S. - "First, let us start with the mission of Amazon: “We strive to offer our customers the lowest possible prices, the best available selection, and the utmost convenience.” Alignment of recommendations system with Amazon's mission: Suggesting recommendations to the users would be a part of this mission as it would allow users to buy things on their mind for the lowest cost in market (may or may not be true). They might get better prices if they order adjacent items together. For example, i"See full answer

Product V. - "\\\Start by saying thanks for the questions\\\ Apple maps is a utility product that allows users to navigate from point A to point B and find transit. It is exclusive to Apple devices Ask Clarifying QQ - What is the definition of the business owner - <500,000 USD in revenue per year Why you are targeting this segment - Apple maps can be a platform of choice for the business owners Why the current consumer version is not suitable - Not suitable to the needs of the SMB How do you define"See full answer

Ben G. - "Problem & Users What is the primary problem the App is trying to solve? Who is the primary user for the App? What is the core value proposition and what business model does it employ to serve the value? What are the business goals the app is trying to achieve and how effective is their strategy Structure Is the purpose of the app clearly conveyed? How is the overall use of space? Is there enough negative space? How does the Information Architecture help users accomplish de"See full answer

Scott S. - "To recount an experience from my last project . We were at the initial stages of designing a new data platform to enhance our trading analytics capabilities. The conflict arose over the selection of a data processing framework. I was advocating for Apache Spark due to its scalability and performance benefits, especially for handling large volumes of derivatives data. Another senior team member preferred a different technology they had more experience with, which they believed would be easier to"See full answer

Anonymous Boa - "Clarifying questions: what exactly do we mean by travel product? Travel recommendation. Travel bookings( airlines/hotels) Itinerary planning etc. Is it going to be a completely new digital product or an extension of instagram? Assuming travel product here means recommendations/bookings, and it going to be an extension within instagram, lets dwell further: Meta's vision: To make the world a closer place by offering connections; build communities. Instagram's mission: To capture , c"See full answer

Vishal B. - "Design an elevator for the blind Clarification Questions A person who is not able to see at all or a person who can partially see? - completely blind Are we we focusing on the people who are visually impaired but, no other physically challenge? - Yes Goal Company already have the elevator products and now company is trying to enter into new market space. Users Blind users with some assistance - we are not focused on these people as they already have some a"See full answer

Ishan S. - "I can see that Gen Z (born between 1995 and 2009) needs a redesigned washing machine with a busier life than ever, newer living arrangements, and a longer time frame. Let's try and understand why we need a new product for Gen Z: Clarifying question - 1) Do we have a specific goal while redesigning the machine? Should we optimize for speed, space, or functionalities? (Assume - No) 2) Do we have geographical constraints? Countries have different power and electrical thresholds, which can decide"See full answer

rkk293 - "How would you increase the number of comments on groups?"See full answer

Surbhi G. - "Goal - Use latest technology to efficiently drive DMV processes User landscape - DMV Employees Public Clarify if we designing for employee productivity, employee shifts, automate internal processes for DMV OR for Public who uses DMV services Lets assume it is for Public. So My prompt and new goal becomes: DMV app to reduce foot traffic to DMV by automating processes online Is that correct to assume? User Journey today: User walkins to DMV -> A User takes online appointment -> Fill sin"See full answer

Anjali M. - "Colleague moved to a different role, so I decided to fill in and did outshine in showing results within the group."See full answer

Ben G. - "Situation - A time where I had to collaborate with a team member in another department was while I was at Google working on my hotel project and had to work with the legal department for our OOBE flow. Task - I was tasked to work cross functionally with the legal department to lead the design of the out of box experience for our product to ensure our guest users were sure of policies around data and privacy. Action - In order to establish cadence and effective relationship building, I set up a t"See full answer

Julien C. - "👇 Your feedback is very much appreciated 👇 Defining metrics: Activation Mobile downloads New user registration Retention and Engagement Nb messages sent Average nb of contacts per user Nb groups Monetization CAC LTV ARPU MRR Prioritizing: What matters most for WhatsApp right now is Engagement. I would therefore prioritize these three: Nb messages sent Average nb of contacts per user Nb groups"See full answer

Bhavna S. - "Before diving into the Solution, I would ask a few clarifying questions. What is the scope of the fake news What type of fake news are we focusing on - Political, Health-related, etc Are we looking at specific examples or a general category of fake news When you say impact, what do you mean by that? Is it time spent on posts, the nature of the engagement (e.g., likes, shares, comments), and the sentiment of the comments? User Demographics: what is the demographic pr"See full answer

Chayan R. - "Clarifying questions: You said on average, having 5 reviews can have positive impact, so I am assuming we will plan to pay for 500 reviews. Is that correct or am I missing anything here ? One information which seems to be missing here to come up with the exact price per review is the number of active visitors from which we are calculating the sales conversion rate. Do we have that information or I should include that as a variable in the price per review. ( assuming we are taking that as a var"See full answer

Precious H. - "Firstly, In designing a denoising system for sounds, I would start by clarifying the type of noise either stationary or non-stationary and application constraints which are the latency, scalability, accuracy and deployability. For real-time systems like Google meet, I will prefer a hybrid DSP + ML model like RNNoise. For batch processing like YouTube audio enhancement, a deep learn-based system such as Demucs or SEGAN would work well. Then I will need to evaluate how well the system improves aud"See full answer

Sumit P. - "CQs: Uber - which business? → Ride hailing Business - B2B or B2C? → B2C Geo - India Revenue/profit → revenue Revenue sources Rides - bike, car, shuttle Ads Partnerships Rides revenue = number of rides x average price Ads revenue = ad impressions x conversion rate x CPC Partnerships = number of partnerships x average income Considering I am a PM, do you want me to focus on tech focused enablement only? No, assume you are a VP of product *"See full answer

VContaineers - " Compare alternate houses i.e for each house starting from the third, calculate the maximum money that can be stolen up to that house by choosing between: Skipping the current house and taking the maximum money stolen up to the previous house. Robbing the current house and adding its value to the maximum money stolen up to the house two steps back. package main import ( "fmt" ) // rob function calculates the maximum money a robber can steal func maxRob(nums []int) int { ln"See full answer

Kari J. - "I got this question in my Mini-Case today. I was a little confused because even though I asked a few clarifying questions -- it didn't clarify much! :-) My response was to what was shown on screen -- a mock of the current process (five modal windows) and a mock of a new single modal. THe ask for this was what do you like and dislike in the mock for the new. I will admit that it would have been easy to say what was wrong with the current process - but since the ask was for the new mock, and"See full answer

Olasile A. - "How would you decide on ad placement on Pinterest? First I would ask clarifying questions as to the reason why no ads have been placed in the top left section of the page feed. Is this more strategic to Pinterest's mission? Is this by design to lay out the architecture of the page feed this way? In the prompt, it is explained that the company is targeting revenue increase as a goal this quarter. Are there alternatives means to generate more revenue in order not to compromise our values an"See full answer

Satesh A. - "I dont know is good and you should use however than but."See full answer