Interview Questions

Nagi E. - "Comprehend the situation: “When we say video streaming, do we mean watching videos such as movies and TV shows from devices using the internet?” Yes “Is it a fair assumption calling 65+ as seniors?” Yes “Any specific goal in mind?” Up to you “Timeline? constraints? “ None “Is this an extension of one of the existing streaming apps or a brand new one?” Brand new “Is there hardware needed for this app or will we be using the existing hardware and only developing the app?” You decide I’l"See full answer

Sri A. - "Success for Yelp reviews. (assuming these are standard reviews posted by customers, for a restaurant or bar or a cafe listed on Yelp. Has a 5-star calibration that users can enter and free-form text.) Select Metrics should span the entire funnel across adoption, engagement, quality, and overall impact for Yelp. Adoption metrics: Total # of reviews written, Avg reviews/ listing Engagement metrics: # reviews being scanned, marked as being useful, etc. Quality metrics: %ge of disputed"See full answer

Scott S. - "Great question! Before communicating any major change, I would ensure I have a deep understanding of the strategic shift, its rationale, and its implications. This involves meeting with senior management to gather all necessary details and preparing to address any questions or concerns from the team. To share a recent experience I had, so Last year, our senior management decided to shift our focus towards leveraging machine learning and advanced real-time analytics to enhance our trading stra"See full answer

Deepak K. - "FN Given text need to figure out is it following guidelines. Should notify the user in case of not following guidelines. Reason for failure should have misleading/spam/adult filters. NFN High availability High Scalability Low latency of processing Estimations 1M requests/min text - 10kb => 9.5GB/min => 14TB/day API fetchmoderationscore(text) score will be between 0 to 1 more than 0.8 => not following guidelines fetchmoderationscore(text, filter)"See full answer

Spencer W. - "A YoY decline in conversion actually seems like it's not that unexpected of a finding but I think you'd need to know how Nike operates. They regularly release sneakers that are limited edition, highly-sought-after, and are sold out within seconds of release. So there are probably a lot of people who are able to add items to their cart, only to find out that the items are actually sold out before they are able to complete the sale. If that were the root cause in this question, I'm curious if ther"See full answer

Ishita S. - "We know that Meta’s mission is to build the future of human connection and the technology that enables it. In line with this, we aim to build a product that enables knowledge and skill sharing within communities. User Segments A skill-sharing platform typically serves two broad segments. Creators are people who create content, share resources, and moderate communities. They include: Peer educators such as college seniors and teaching assistants Hobby experts Semi-professional c"See full answer

Sam A. - "The distribution of daily search queries per user, as shown in the histogram, can be described as approximately normal (or bell-shaped) with a slight positive skew. Key Characteristics: Shape: The distribution is roughly symmetrical around its center, resembling a bell curve. This indicates that most users perform a moderate number of daily search queries. Central Tendency: The peak of the distribution, representing the highest density of users, appears to be around **8"See full answer

Amit A. - "When I look to join a company, I think of long term association. Hence, I put a lot of focus on the team that I am going to work with, the culture, the value that I will add to the company & the opportunities for me to learn & grow. Microsoft is one of the pioneers in the tech industry touching the lives of many corporate and consumer clients and helping them to achieve more. To answer your question specifically, i would say -: Microsoft will provide me a platform to work with some of the sma"See full answer

coolkid1 - "wasn't aware of ticketmaster thus asked time from interviewer to glance through the portal, also cross-checked any other value prop from the interviewer that i couldn't infer from website, for ex. providing assurance of confirmed tickets. clarifying questions - who am i? do we want to partner with another player or provide services on our own? any specific goal - monetization, engagement, retention etc. in mind? any particular geo? "See full answer

Rudra pratap S. - "Spotify is a platform which allows users to listen songs across the globe with variety of songs+singers and also gives opportunity to singers to create some money. It’s mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it. Spotify’s discover weekly feature is well aligned with the mission of Spotify as it recommends songs based on their previous content"See full answer

Adib M. - "Any answer after this video won't compare. Not an expert. With that caveat out of the way, here is my answer I'd break this work into different phases = Discovery Phase, Planning Phase, Execution Phase, Monitoring phase, Ongoing Discovery : How many Products does this enterprise have? Are we talking about internally developed Products that we sell in the market place? or also third party Products that our enterprise has purchased for internal use? Should we include Operating Systems, net"See full answer

Yuexiang Y. - "clarify: so does the 5% drop a sudden drop or overtime in the one week does it broadly drop 5% or it dropped only in some regions or in some segments like new acqusition / frequent active customers? or does the 5% drop also happened last year same period? DAU = acqusition x activation x retention segment: I will first quickly do some EDA to find out problem, like calculate the DAU drop in new customer, tenured customer, between regions to find out is there any difference. then I will also look"See full answer

Meagan R. - "Collaborate with the team to determine which team's product will move the needle the most in achieving the strategic goals and prioritize that work."See full answer