Interview Questions

Anonymous Sparrow - "Before I jump in, will this product be part of the FB ecosystem? If it's up to me, although I think wine has a great social element and is shared when people are connecting...I would hesitate to create a product that promotes alcohol consumption on FB. So I would choose to have it live outside of FB. With that, let me start by making sure I understand the product correctly, talk about some metrics we can target. Then we can think through who our users are and outline some of their needs. Final"See full answer

Will I. - "Is it bad to get the answer a different way? Will they mark that as not knowing Bayes Theorem or just correct as it is an easier way to get the answer? The way I went is to look at what happens when the factory makes 100 light bulbs. Machine A makes 60 of which 3 are faulty, Machine B makes 40 of which 1.2 are faulty. Therefore the pool of faulty lightbulbs is 3/4.2 = 5/7 from machine A and 1.2/4.2 = 3/7 from Machine B."See full answer

Aishwarya J. - "Simplify a technical concept for a business user :- Explain the technical concept by concentrating on the impact of the methodologies implemented , stress on the value addition [Data Inflow/ Outflow Diagrams ] Simplify a business concept to a technical user :- Explain a business concept to a technical user by expanding on the tools and technologies used for highlighting the results in a certain report / dashboard/ data transformation method employed to achieve Feature documentation along with"See full answer

Dev S. - "My Favorite Product is Grammarly unlike Microsoft spell checker, it helps correct the mistakes as I compose my sentences. It follows rules, patterns, machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing (NLP) to improve users’ writing skills and improve their confidence in writing skills. I would evaluate this product by the following design principles. Usefulness Understandability Innovative It’s honest I can expand this criterion and explain how I evaluate prod"See full answer

N N. - "As a software engineer, there are a number of ways I could potentially contribute to improving Walmart.com. Here are a few ideas: Performance Optimization: Walmart.com is a complex web application with many moving parts. One potential area for improvement could be to optimize the performance of the site to make it load faster and feel more responsive. This could involve things like optimizing images, improving server response times, or reducing the number of HTTP requests required to load the"See full answer

Samuel S. - "Clarification questions: What is the time frame we want to build this? MVP 6 months What markets and geos are we targeting? e.g. developed markets and scope it to just US and canada Are we targeting any particular meta platform ? facebook, IG, whatsapp or i can pick ? Across mobile and web platforms. Yes Alignment with Meta's mission and vision and discusison on Product dynamics itself Meta's mission to empower people to build communities and bring the wo"See full answer

Anonymous Gazelle - "Post Booking Journey – Starts from making the payment for the ticket & ends at collecting the baggage at the belt Different Steps, which are involved and could go wrong: Payment gateway is not responding and the last Payment made but booking not confirmed Ticket gets cancelled but money is not refunded / money is debited but ticket is not refunded Flight gets rescheduled / Cancelled / Delayed Huge Qs at check in counter / Security Want to purchase a service onboard but currency not"See full answer

rocketscientist - "I was the PM of a beta product which started to be utilized by a range of users. Although I maintained and communicated a road map that outlined upcoming features at a high level, it wasn't very clear to the users whether certain features were going to be improved, certain low level features were going to be added, or whether these were on our radar at all. We don't have a large team to support call desk or a marketing team. I was having multiple, one of conversations with different users and c"See full answer

Nikita B. - "Mission for TikTok shop is to increase brand growth and sales. TikTok gives platform to these brands/advertiser to market their products via influencers/creators to be able to sell their products faster and users on tiktok platform(mainly Gen-z) are motivated to make inspirational based discovery of products and purchase them So main objective for TikTok shop could be Increase sales for diverse brands So, some of the metrics to consider would be: no of orders placed per week"See full answer

Christopher K. - "Clarifying/Requirements House hunting is something I'm familiar with as someone who has rented, owned, and invested in the past. When I was looking for a place to live, the stage of where my life plays an important factor in determining how I look for a place. Before I start, I would like to ask some clarifying questions for better context and understanding. Did FB release any app related to house hunting - No, this would be a completely new feature. Will this be a stand-alone or"See full answer

Stanley Y. - "First of all, stack and heap memory are abstraction on top of the hardware by the compiler. The hardware is not aware of stack and heap memory. There is only a single piece of memory that a program has access to. The compiler creates the concepts of stack and heap memory to run the programs efficiently. Programs use stack memory to store local variables and a few important register values such as frame pointer and return address for program counter. This makes it easier for the compiler to gene"See full answer

Jack F. - "What is our goal during onboarding? e.x. Site-visits, add-to-cart, completed checkout etc? After asking clarifying questions we learn that our north-star goal is to get more customers to complete a checkout, therefore our goal is to increase our conversion rate. Are we looking to sell more of a particular product or increase conversion rate holistically? Segmentation: Do we have a particular market or demographic in mind? Commercial/business vs. individuals One time buyers vs. repeat purch"See full answer

Apurv W. - "Clarify: Understanding of wallets an UPI What is failure rate here? - transaction failed Is it real time failure or successful on front end but failed in backend - assuming it is front end, real time failure. Have other related products/features experienced the same change? Diagnose (impact, significance) Failure rate = assuming it is significantly increasing Impact = customer lifetime value, # of bookings, Avg order value and satisfaction too. Users & value Seller = Revenue "See full answer

Saket S. - "I will look at the % of overspend. If we are within 10%, I would not worry about it too much as most budgets factor in 10% contingency. If Budget has exceeded 10% Threshold, I will use the following approach: Deep dive on current status: Understand % work completed/accepted Analyse Schedule/Time progress Understand Project Priority: P1/P2/P3 Resourcing: Internal/External Complexity: Technical design (Number of Applications involved/ Number of Interfaces to be build e"See full answer

Agnes D. - "Clarify: What is the objective? Grow user base of Prime or add revenue? Hypothesis: I believe it would be to grow user base of Prime. In that case, I would look at the target users for this – which will be mostly Non-Prime members whom we are trying to convert to Prime users. If I analyze who would be interested in purchasing gifts and having them gift-wrapped, user segmentation would not really add value as age, gender or geographical segmentation will not provide much differentiatio"See full answer

Matthew K. - " function climbStairs(n) { // 4 iterations of Dynamic Programming solutions: // Step 1: Recursive: // if (n <= 2) return n // return climbStairs(n-1) + climbStairs(n-2) // Step 2: Top-down Memoization // const memo = {0:0, 1:1, 2:2} // function f(x) { // if (x in memo) return memo[x] // memo[x] = f(x-1) + f(x-2) // return memo[x] // } // return f(n) // Step 3: Bottom-up Tabulation // const tab = [0,1,2] // f"See full answer