Interview Questions

Rev - "Clarify: More about google online tutoring service? - content type, is it recorded/ live, certified/ at own pace/ paid, unpaid, etc.? Objective of this service? Organise world's info & make it accessible & useful, any other objective? What is the revenue model? Competition? Region/ geography? Constraints? Approach: Awareness about the product & job openings: Print & Digital media, ads via google products Accessibility to apply LinkedIn/ Google careers page, post"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

Inae L. - "Question: If Meta Pay did not exist, would you recommend that Meta develop its own payment solution internally or seek a partnership? Justify your decision. Answer: Given Meta's position as a leading technology company with a vast ecosystem of applications and services, I would recommend that Meta develop its own payment solution internally. My decision is based on several key factors: Strategic Control and Flexibility Developing an internal payment solution would gran"See full answer

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

Hari S. - "Clarifying questions: Is this a standalone product or a Meta integrated product? Which region is this for? US or another region or global? Is this for a county run library or a more informal group community library? Assumptions: It's a meta integrated product US based system group run community library Let's see if a lending library fits into Meta's company mission to build community and bring people closer together. Yes, a lending library does build community by helping peop"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

Judy W. - "Situation: COVID has impacted everyone's lives, especially small businesses. Earlier this year, during the second lockdown in Malaysia, it was estimated that 50%-70% of small businesses have closed. It got me thinking, beyond the existing training programmes, what can my company do to support small businesses? Task: So, I took the initiative to gather our Comms and Government Affairs team, to work together and explore how we can: 1) meaningfully demonstrate our company's commitment in"See full answer

Anonymous Panda - " Communication between Mars and Earth is facilitated through various methods and technologies. The primary means of communication is through the use of space probes, particularly those equipped with powerful transmitters and receivers. Here's a general overview of how communication between Mars and Earth works: Deep Space Network (DSN): NASA operates the Deep Space Network, a global system of radio antennas located in California, Spain, and Australia. These antennas are responsible for sending"See full answer

Nilesh S. - "A daily 10 minute cadence to make a note of the progress and the deliverables for the day, should help ascertain the delivery and to meet schedule the self performing teams need to be on toes to deliver. Time lines need to be revisited end of each day to evalute the impact."See full answer

onering2ruleall - "My leadership style is flexible and adaptive, it varies depending on the team members and the needs of the company. My leadership goal is to empower the team and inspire and grow leaders. In order to achieve that, I combine transformational, democratic and coaching leadership styles. Usually when we are facing a new type of challenge, or at the early stage of a project, I like to adapt the transformational leadership which allows me to listen to all the suggestions from the team members and sta"See full answer

Saket S. - "I will use the following approach for this situation: Understand Current Status of the Program: Program Goals, Schedule, How many teams, what are their deliverables, dependencies between teams Team level view of progress: Through tools like Burn down charts, Gantt charts etc. Identify laggards (lagging teams). Trend analysis for lagging teams: Understand at what point, the decline started. If the decline has started around same time, then following may be the potential issues: -"See full answer

Dinar M. - "I used array to append. np.array does not have append and every np.vstack recreates object again. import numpy as np class Centroid: def init(self, location, vectors): self.location = location # (D,) self.vectors = vectors # (N_i, D) class KMeans: def init(self, n_features, k): self.nfeatures = nfeatures self.centroids = [ Centroid( location=np.random.randn(n_features), vectors=[] # I"See full answer

Talles S. - "Me: First, let's design our product and then we will calculate the estimated amount of units sold. Before we begin, is there anything specific about this refrigerator, is this a 'smart refrigerator'? Interviewer: Yes, you can consider this is a smart refrigerator but the overall design is up to you. Me: Thank you, one more question, do we have a specific user in mind? Younger people? Retirees? Interviewer: No, you can select the user base based on your prioritization, but theoretically it cou"See full answer

Anjesh D. - "I had multiple RCA to complete and each one had a deadline but the process to complete them wasn't streamlined which cause some of them to miss SLA and point of contact felt frustrated as she has no information to give to customer. I received feedback that what blocked me to move forward on those and how can I do better next time?"See full answer

Suraj - "UberPool Product built for Uber Uber is a network of drivers & riders that allow to transport riders from A to B UberPool UberPool product solves for 2-3 riders to take a trip to a destination that works for everyone. It helps with reduced cost for riders, reduced emissions, make it faster to reach destination during high traffic hours makes it harder to find a ride --> until you find users willing to go to same destination "See full answer

R K. - "Clarifying questions: Can we pick any business product across CapOne spectrum? any preference? - Assume pick any Are there any specific geographies you'd like to focus on? Are there any specific customer segments you'd like to focus on? Are you able to provide any information on the market/competitive analysis? Or I can just make reasonable assumptions along the way. Confirming we care about revenue? not profit per customer? Lay out the framework: I'd like to focus on the followi"See full answer

Pankhuri T. - "Step - 1 Ask any clarifying questions you'd have Is there any particular reality show that we are talking about? (Assuming "The Great Indian Kapil Sharma Show" for this answer that there is no particular reality show that we are going with rather a general answer) Are we talking about any particular demographics? (Assuming we are going to launch this game globally and for any specific country or city). Step - 2 Apply a Product Design Framework (let's go with CIRCLES) C(Com"See full answer