Interview Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Sid S. - "· Scoping the problem: · What kind of aeroplane - wide / narrow body, single/double deck. Assume normal domestic US plane with about 150 seating capacity Will the plane be empty(no passengers or luggage) - assume yes Will we only fill the cockpit, passenger area and cargo hold or do we need to consider wings, engines, etc - assume no We will consider the theoretical limit and ignore any inefficiencies in arranging the balls Breaking the problem down: Considering the interior o"See full answer

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

Santhosh K. - "As an engineering manager, motivation is key to the success of the team. Here are some ways to motivate the team: Set clear goals: Clearly defined goals help team members understand what they're working towards and give them a sense of purpose. Offer growth opportunities: Providing opportunities for professional development and advancement can increase motivation and job satisfaction. Provide recognition and rewards: Recognising and rewarding team members for their hard work and achieve"See full answer

Anonymous Capybara - "using a relational database isn't a good choice for this system! we need more availability here than consistency (CAP theorem)"See full answer

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

Nid P. - "I explained the story of trying to help the engineer to improve the performance and after it is failed, the steps I have taken to move the eng to PIP."See full answer

Christian B. - "with cte as (select ts.employee_id, e.name, t.id as test_id, max(distinct ts.score) as total from test_results as ts join tests as t on ts.test_id = t.id join employees as e on ts.employee_id = e.id group by ts.employee_id, e.name, t.id) select employee_id, name as employee_name, sum(total) as total_score from cte group by employee_id, employee_name order by total_score desc, employee_id asc ;"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

Ben G. - "Situation - A situation where I used creative / innovative thinking to eliminate frustration with a product was while I was working on Point of Sale and Polaris for Retail Design System for Shopify. Upon seeing our vision for the future of this design system, it lacked a lot of the visual polish and necessary components that would make the product much more competitive in the market - this included having a lack of an interaction model for what is tappable vs. not tappable as well as containmen"See full answer