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  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    Video answer for 'How would you improve Google Drive?'

    "User Persona Individual heavy Users Casual users Enterprise Users Occasional Users I would like to think more about the Enterprise users, because they are the power users and the maximum revenue of the Google may come up with the enterprise solutions. It is my hypothesis that despite of improvement of the Google drive, common individual users are highly unlikely to use the premium version of the G Suite User Journey of the person using Google Drive Want to work on the new document"

    Anonymous Muskox - "User Persona Individual heavy Users Casual users Enterprise Users Occasional Users I would like to think more about the Enterprise users, because they are the power users and the maximum revenue of the Google may come up with the enterprise solutions. It is my hypothesis that despite of improvement of the Google drive, common individual users are highly unlikely to use the premium version of the G Suite User Journey of the person using Google Drive Want to work on the new document"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • "To enhance customer adoption of JPMorgan Chase's Payments Developer Portal, I propose a feature called "Guided Onboarding and Custom Integration Paths." Feature Overview Guided Onboarding: A step-by-step onboarding process for new users that includes interactive tutorials, video walkthroughs, and a personalized dashboard based on their needs and use cases. Users can select their business type and goals (e.g., e-commerce, retail, fintech) to receive tailored content and API recomm"

    Lavanya S. - "To enhance customer adoption of JPMorgan Chase's Payments Developer Portal, I propose a feature called "Guided Onboarding and Custom Integration Paths." Feature Overview Guided Onboarding: A step-by-step onboarding process for new users that includes interactive tutorials, video walkthroughs, and a personalized dashboard based on their needs and use cases. Users can select their business type and goals (e.g., e-commerce, retail, fintech) to receive tailored content and API recomm"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • "Clarification: Why South Korea and why Google has expanded their yet. I know there are some government security concerns which have bene in place but how is this integration going to expand Is this something like Google Maps itself or is it tailored to particular needs or region Google Mission & Why we want to expand? Google mission is to organize world's information and make it universally available. The Google Map in South Korea aligns with this as it will help people navigate through t"

    Charmi S. - "Clarification: Why South Korea and why Google has expanded their yet. I know there are some government security concerns which have bene in place but how is this integration going to expand Is this something like Google Maps itself or is it tailored to particular needs or region Google Mission & Why we want to expand? Google mission is to organize world's information and make it universally available. The Google Map in South Korea aligns with this as it will help people navigate through t"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Strategy
  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    +19

    "def friend_distance(friends, userA, userB): step = 0 total_neighs = set() llen = len(total_neighs) total_neighs.add(userB) while len(total_neighs)!=llen: s = set() step += 1 llen = len(total_neighs) for el in total_neighs: nes = neighbours(friends, userA, el) if userA in nes: return step for p in nes: s.add(p) for el in s: total_neighs.add(el) return -1 def neighbours(A,n1, n2): out = set() for i in range(len(A[n2])): if An2: out.add(i) return out"

    Batman X. - "def friend_distance(friends, userA, userB): step = 0 total_neighs = set() llen = len(total_neighs) total_neighs.add(userB) while len(total_neighs)!=llen: s = set() step += 1 llen = len(total_neighs) for el in total_neighs: nes = neighbours(friends, userA, el) if userA in nes: return step for p in nes: s.add(p) for el in s: total_neighs.add(el) return -1 def neighbours(A,n1, n2): out = set() for i in range(len(A[n2])): if An2: out.add(i) return out"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Data Structures & Algorithms
    +1 more
  • Engineering Manager
    People Management
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  • "Before I walk you through my thought process, I want to align you with the definition of discovery. I assume discovery is the journey before a guest adds a property or experience to the cart, which can be broken down into the discovery of listings pre-search bar on the homepage and discovery post-search bar on the search results page. Are we talking about both touch points as discovery, or would you like me to focus specifically on one? Is this for a specific platform, mobile or desktop web? Bec"

    Tracy C. - "Before I walk you through my thought process, I want to align you with the definition of discovery. I assume discovery is the journey before a guest adds a property or experience to the cart, which can be broken down into the discovery of listings pre-search bar on the homepage and discovery post-search bar on the search results page. Are we talking about both touch points as discovery, or would you like me to focus specifically on one? Is this for a specific platform, mobile or desktop web? Bec"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Strategy
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 

    "1) select avg(session) from table where session> 180 2) select round(sessiontime/300)*300 as sessionbin, count() as sessioncount from table group by round(sessiontime/300)300 order by session_bin 3) SELECT t1.country AS country_a, t2.country AS country_b FROM ( SELECT country, COUNT(*) AS session_count FROM yourtablename GROUP BY country ) AS t1 JOIN ( SELECT country, COUNT(*) AS session_count FROM yourtablename `GROUP BY countr"

    Erjan G. - "1) select avg(session) from table where session> 180 2) select round(sessiontime/300)*300 as sessionbin, count() as sessioncount from table group by round(sessiontime/300)300 order by session_bin 3) SELECT t1.country AS country_a, t2.country AS country_b FROM ( SELECT country, COUNT(*) AS session_count FROM yourtablename GROUP BY country ) AS t1 JOIN ( SELECT country, COUNT(*) AS session_count FROM yourtablename `GROUP BY countr"See full answer

    Data Analyst
    Coding
    +4 more
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 

    "Achieving your metric of success (Daily Active Users, Engagement etc.) Improving user sentiment in their experience of using the product Attention given to accessibility, visual design and content hierarchy The product design aligns with goals and branding of company Product clearly communicates value to our users and helps them achieve their goals"

    Ben G. - "Achieving your metric of success (Daily Active Users, Engagement etc.) Improving user sentiment in their experience of using the product Attention given to accessibility, visual design and content hierarchy The product design aligns with goals and branding of company Product clearly communicates value to our users and helps them achieve their goals"See full answer

    Solutions Architect
    Behavioral
    +2 more
  • +2

    "Clarifying questions: Q: So FB locals is a standalone app that has reviews of local businesses? What is the current state of the product? A: Yes. It recently relaunched and branded. Facebooks mission is to connect people and help them build community, FB local fits into this by using the power of the large social network to surface businesses and events and uses signals such as reviews to build trust and provide value. So its of the utmost importance that the reviews are authentic. Goal: I"

    Anonymous Hummingbird - "Clarifying questions: Q: So FB locals is a standalone app that has reviews of local businesses? What is the current state of the product? A: Yes. It recently relaunched and branded. Facebooks mission is to connect people and help them build community, FB local fits into this by using the power of the large social network to surface businesses and events and uses signals such as reviews to build trust and provide value. So its of the utmost importance that the reviews are authentic. Goal: I"See full answer

    Product Design
    System Design
  • Paytm logoAsked at Paytm 

    "CQs: Swiggy? → instamart or food delivery → consider both Why do we want to increase AOV right now? Is it not at the desired level or exploration? → let’s say exploration Swiggy is a public company → goal is profit Biggest bite in profit is delivery cost hence delivery cost/unit revenue should be minimised Delivery cost = (fixed base cost + distance * x) * probability of spoil cases Can be done by Lowering delivery cost → seems challenging "

    Sumit P. - "CQs: Swiggy? → instamart or food delivery → consider both Why do we want to increase AOV right now? Is it not at the desired level or exploration? → let’s say exploration Swiggy is a public company → goal is profit Biggest bite in profit is delivery cost hence delivery cost/unit revenue should be minimised Delivery cost = (fixed base cost + distance * x) * probability of spoil cases Can be done by Lowering delivery cost → seems challenging "See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Strategy
  • Adobe logoAsked at Adobe 
    Video answer for 'Given stock prices for the next n days, how can you maximize your profit by buying or selling one share per day?'
    +11

    "from typing import List def maxprofitgreedy(stock_prices: List[int]) -> int: l=0 # buying r=1 # selling max_profit=0 while rstock_prices[l]: profit=stockprices[r]-stockprices[l] maxprofit=max(maxprofit,profit) else: l=r r+=1 return max_profit debug your code below print(maxprofitgreedy([7, 1, 5, 3, 6, 4])) `"

    Prajwal M. - "from typing import List def maxprofitgreedy(stock_prices: List[int]) -> int: l=0 # buying r=1 # selling max_profit=0 while rstock_prices[l]: profit=stockprices[r]-stockprices[l] maxprofit=max(maxprofit,profit) else: l=r r+=1 return max_profit debug your code below print(maxprofitgreedy([7, 1, 5, 3, 6, 4])) `"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Data Structures & Algorithms
    +4 more
  • Microsoft logoAsked at Microsoft 
    Video answer for 'How would you improve the experience of moving to a new city?'
    +1

    " I would ask some clarifying questions to refine my objective and know about our users? What do you mean by experience? Travel, food, short stay, long stay, dating, event, work, airport, registration? - Improve Food, Travel, Event experience, which can be a short or long stay. What do you mean by the movement to a new city? International travel/ within a specific country (designing solution for any country?) or any geography? - within a country suppose India What is our business objecti"

    Ajinkya P. - " I would ask some clarifying questions to refine my objective and know about our users? What do you mean by experience? Travel, food, short stay, long stay, dating, event, work, airport, registration? - Improve Food, Travel, Event experience, which can be a short or long stay. What do you mean by the movement to a new city? International travel/ within a specific country (designing solution for any country?) or any geography? - within a country suppose India What is our business objecti"See full answer

    Product Design
    Analytical
    +1 more
  • Technical Program Manager
    Program Sense
  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    BizOps & Strategy
    System Design
  • "I'd start by trying to understand the high level north star for Stripe Atlas with respect to Stripe's mission of increasing the GDP of the internet. Example north star: Increase successfully created startups MoM, YoY I'd ask the interviewer to confirm my understanding on the following: Atlas allows entrepreneurs to easily launch their startups within a matter of only a few days from signup to receiving a tax ID. I would take this understanding and understand the input metrics towards the n"

    Michelle D. - "I'd start by trying to understand the high level north star for Stripe Atlas with respect to Stripe's mission of increasing the GDP of the internet. Example north star: Increase successfully created startups MoM, YoY I'd ask the interviewer to confirm my understanding on the following: Atlas allows entrepreneurs to easily launch their startups within a matter of only a few days from signup to receiving a tax ID. I would take this understanding and understand the input metrics towards the n"See full answer

    Execution
    Analytical
  • "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"

    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

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • Product Manager
    Product Design
  • +8

    "In the question it says: "above the overall average total posts", which to me implying a >, yet in the solution it uses >= Caused me 1 hr to find out. plz fix"

    Peter W. - "In the question it says: "above the overall average total posts", which to me implying a >, yet in the solution it uses >= Caused me 1 hr to find out. plz fix"See full answer

    Data Engineer
    Coding
    +3 more
  • +4

    "Assumption: I’m estimating the minimum number of trains required to fulfil maximum demand I’m including all trains that’s serving NYC Formula: Before I state my formula, I would like to mention a few things I will be calculating the number of trains required to fulfill all demand at the peak time during a workday. I assume peak time lasts for 2 hours I’m assuming that a train takes 2 hours to complete one roundtrip on its route, which means any given train can service rider"

    Qusai B. - "Assumption: I’m estimating the minimum number of trains required to fulfil maximum demand I’m including all trains that’s serving NYC Formula: Before I state my formula, I would like to mention a few things I will be calculating the number of trains required to fulfill all demand at the peak time during a workday. I assume peak time lasts for 2 hours I’m assuming that a train takes 2 hours to complete one roundtrip on its route, which means any given train can service rider"See full answer

    Estimation
    System Design
  • Microsoft logoAsked at Microsoft 
    Video answer for 'How would you talk a customer through price objections?'
    Solutions Architect
    Behavioral
    +1 more
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