Interview Questions

Neelesh K. - "Grow market share of Bing by 5% Clarification: Are we focusing on a certain geography or Region where market share has to be increased? – Assume - All Regions Are we focusing on a particular device or platform? – Like Desktop/Laptops, Mobiles/Tablets, IOS/Android – Assuming all What is the Goal of increasing Market Share? – Assuming new users and driving usage among existing users. Do we have any user segment in mind or am I free to choose? – Assume you can choose Microsoft’s Mission"See full answer

Dr. chantel P. - "Currently, I work in banking fraud detection. Recently, my teammate and myself were asked to assist the Check Deposits team in enhancing their fraud detection ML solution by evaluating new data sources and eliminating past data sources for possible lift. We retrieved data from Hadoop and Netezza databases including deposit transaction data, mobile & computer device, authentication logs, account balance, and customer demographic data. We then created new and recreated old features including tem"See full answer

Saran V. - "Understanding: Understand the reason for the pushback? Is the pushback related to any program constraints such as schedule, cost, quality, or scope? Is this pushback from a single stakeholder or a majority of the stakeholders? Working towards overall program goal: Explain how your idea is tied to the overall program's success metric or the goal Bring in data points to echo the above point Bring in examples of how this approach has helped in the past or with other competitors "See full answer

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

Rustam - "There are number of ways where an app could lose users. I would try and speak with the following teams to figure out the issue. Data Team - I'd ask data team to see if there are any drops in the existing game funnels. There could have been an issue in game design. Potentially players could have gotten stuck on a super hard level and left or flew through a puzzle that was too easy, and also left. Essentially, figuring out the progression curve of the game, which often times can lead to play"See full answer

Ankita S. - "let's say I'm working on a social media platform and considering implementing a new feature: "Reactions" to posts, similar to Facebook's reactions (like, love, haha, wow, sad, angry). Here's how I would conduct an A/B test for this feature: Define goals and Identify the feature: Goal is to increase user engagement and provide more nuanced ways for users to express their reactions to posts.The feature I want to test is the introduction of "Reactions" buttons alongside the traditional "Lik"See full answer

K.nithish K. - "MOD = 10**9 + 7 def max_stability(reliability, availability): max_stability = 1 for r, a in zip(reliability, availability): Compute stability of the current server stability = r * a if stability != 0: Multiply into max_stability and take modulo maxstability = (maxstability * stability) % MOD return max_stability reliability = [1, 2, 2] availability = [1, 1, 3] print(max_stability(reliability, availability)) # Output the result mo"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

Sarabjeet S. - "Goal of YT search is to enable quick access to a video of interest to user. So success for YT search would mean access to videos that interest, and user actually clicks on one or more searched videos to watch them. It also means reduced time searching overall, with high relevance results shown for search string. Actions performed by users are: Goes to the YT site or Mobile app Clicks on the Search window to type Enters search string and presses enter Browses the list, scrolls"See full answer

Divya R. - "public static Integer[] findLargest(int[] input, int m) { if(input==null || input.length==0) return null; PriorityQueue minHeap=new PriorityQueue(); for(int i:input) { if(minHeap.size()(int)top){ minHeap.poll(); minHeap.add(i); } } } Integer[] res=minHeap.toArray(new Integer[0]); Arrays.sort(res); return res; }"See full answer

Adarsh S. - "Hey, Thanks for the question - it’s an interesting real-life existing problem wherein a few of my friends and colleagues who have tried to work and travel have faced these issues at their respective airBnBs. Cool so this is the rough backbone structure that we can follow and ofcourse we can add meat later on to it and pivot if required. So here it goes: First would like to lay out the broader mission of Airbnb + WHY this is needed as to why we are doing this and then some clarific"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

Manaswini D. - "user surveys and interviews: Ask users how well the reactions reflect their feelings. sentiment analysis : Analyze comment sentiment to see if it aligns with reactions. Machine learning classification model: Train models to predict user emotion from post content and compare with selected reactions."See full answer