Interview Questions

Pranav M. - "Statement: Improve the music experience at youtube Is the goal to improve the experience for any particular kind of user/music genre? Ans: No, nothing in particular Goal: I’m going to assume the goal is to improve the experience of listening to music generally Google’s mission is to organise the world’s information. Youtube is a platform that lets people discover videos, interesting content as tailored to their interests, thus serving Google’s mission Music on Youtube also contributes to"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

Rick E. - " from typing import List def getnumberof_islands(binaryMatrix: List[List[int]]) -> int: if not binaryMatrix: return 0 rows = len(binaryMatrix) cols = len(binaryMatrix[0]) islands = 0 for r in range(rows): for c in range(cols): if binaryMatrixr == 1: islands += 1 dfs(binaryMatrix, r, c) return islands def dfs(grid, r, c): if ( r = len(grid) "See full answer

Takashi M. - "Me: First of all, I’d like to have some clarification about this project. Me: What is the current product line design of the vending machine? Is this a traditional vending machine? Customers pay money cash or credit card, and select products and receive the product. Interviewer: Yes, that is the correct assumption. We make vending machines for canned drinks and bottled drinks. Another product line is for selling small packaged snacks. Me: What is the goal of this project? Is"See full answer

Avi G. - "Clarifying Questions: Will this feature be rolled out to the Facebook App or will it be a stand-alone app like Messenger? -- Assume it will be another feature like Marketplace embedded in the Facebook App What is the goal of this feature? How will it be used? Similar to Marketplace where you might see job listings and employer's company pages linked for reviews Will this be rolled out to a specific geographic region or a specific industry? - Lets assume all industries in US **Assump"See full answer

Shoaib H. - "Clarifyig questons Why do we want to re-design the feature? are there any existing problem with the existing DM feature? -- you figure out Do we have any particular goal in mind which we want to achieve? related to Engagement, Session time etc? -- Think yourself When we say DMs, this includes P2P, Message to business, Message to an open account or you have something else in mind? -- Think yourself With that bieng said lets first understand what are the core use cases of the DM as a feature P"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

Asset T. - "Ask clarifying questions: There are a few different products within Coinbase platform - Coinbase, Coinbase Pro, Coinbase Wallet. Which one would you like me to focus on? Let’s assume it is Coinbase main app Coinbase has both desktop and mobile apps - is it ok if I focus on one of them first, and if time permits, extend it to another? Let’s assume we focus on the mobile version Coinbase is available in 100+ countries, can I focus on the US version? Let’s assume yes. Is"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

Anonymous Roadrunner - "-- Write your query here select p.id, p.title, p.budget, count(e.id) as num_employees, sum(e.salary) as total_salaries from projects p join employeesprojects ep on p.id = ep.projectid join employees e on ep.employee_id = e.id group by 1 order by 5 desc; `"See full answer

Anonymous Roadrunner - "from typing import List def three_sum(nums: List[int]) -> List[List[int]]: nums.sort() triplets = set() for i in range(len(nums) - 2): firstNum = nums[i] l = i + 1 r = len(nums) - 1 while l 0: r -= 1 elif potentialSum < 0: l += 1 "See full answer

Amit T. - "Question Design a product for P2P borrowing & lending money Clarifications Is this only P2P borrowing/lending or can financial entities participate too? - P2P only Is it to borrow/lend physical cash/digital money/cryptocurrency? - digital fiat money Are we focusing on specific geography? - US What’s the goal of this product? - Retention Are there any resource constraints? - No What’s the timeline to launch MVP? - 6 months FB Mission Empower people to build commun"See full answer