Interview Questions

Saket S. - "Clarifying questions: Are we trying to determine impact of changing timeline on Project? Assuming Project scenario. I need to take a 360 degree view and hence I would list down all the stakeholders and work with them to understand impact of changing timeline: Internal Stakeholders Business: Does this change impact the revenue/profitability Engineering: Do we foresee any technological risks due to change in timeline Sales: Does this impact our sales forecast Marketing:"See full answer

Mereke D. - " Before starting to answer let me gather the necessary details before proceeding: Objectives and Goals\: "What are the primary objectives of implementing the push notification system? Are we aiming to increase user engagement, drive sales, or provide timely updates?" Target Audience\: "Who is the target audience for these push notifications? Are there specific user segments we should focus on?" Platform and Device Considerations\: "Which platforms (iOS, Andr"See full answer

Hmm T. - "Understand what is the business objective behind the ask ? We should not be adopting trends just because everyone is adopting, it has to be tied to business objective Once objective is clear - we need to determine feasibility and cost\benefit assessment by deciding on pilot candidates - since its bank, do we want to integrate this with mobile banking only ? Once we decide on candidate - we will also need to decide on buy vs build decision ? If there are any fintech offerings (like Zell"See full answer

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Sugrim S. - "after completing my project, I asked my manager for feedback on my performance. My aim was to identify areas for improvement, and learn more about new technologies which are in the"See full answer

M N. - "Potential ad creators: Brands Drivers Travel services. Goal: To create a revenue stream. Acquire new users? To potentially develop new products? For now, lets focus on generating revenue as the goal. Potential ad products: Ads from brands you can watch while you are riding. Most riders dont look at the app while riding but we can provide them incentives like 5% off next ride if they watch ads the whole ride and pay it via ad revenue. Drivers can pay Lyft to be matched more w"See full answer

Cameron P. - "Clarifying Questions: US or globally? globally Consumer or business use? consumer Assumptions: Assuming we are interested in frequent users, let's say someone who uses Google Drive at least 5 times a year. Discluding anyone who has used Google Drive less than 4 times per year. Assuming Google Drive is a place to store, share, and collaborate on files and folders from your mobile device, tablet, or computer. Recap: We would like to estimate the number of users of Google Drive"See full answer

Swetha C. - "Product Mission - Establishing easy and quick checkout process improving customer experience. Company Mission - Raising the bar to improve customer experience using internet and technology User segments: Sellers: Need to make sure the products are scaled and ready available all the time Fresh and remove expired products Keeping up with inventory Consumers Find, discover and purchase products that interests the customers. Pain Points: Seller"See full answer

Carlos S. - "1) Clarifications Is this a Google initiative? Yes Timeline for development? MVP within 3 months. Hotel type? Focus on urban and mid-sized hotels Items to offer? Include ready-to-eat meals/snacks (e.g., microwaveable food, healthy snacks, beverages). Geographic scope? Launch in the US only. 2) Google Mission / Why "Organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful." Google aims to enhance the guest experienc"See full answer

Scott S. - "One of the most challenging moments I experienced as a Engineering Manager was with an employee who was a very talented engineer but struggled with communication and collaboration within the team. This situation not only affected his performance but also created tension among team members. To sort of elaborate on it, I had an engineer on my team, Ravi, who was extremely skilled technically and consistently delivered high-quality code. However, Ravi often worked in isolation, was reluctant to sh"See full answer

Steven M. - "Clarifying questions: I assume we're focused on the consumer side of this? ** Yes I am assuming post booking begins immediately after booking a ticket and ends when the user leaves the airport at their destination. Does that sound right? ** Yes Goals: United Airlines wants to get its passengers to their destination seamlessly, safely, and on time. Users: I think about user groups in 3 main buckets. 1) 24 hours following booking 2) >24 following booking through 24 hours before boarding "See full answer

Ana A. - "Amazon: Mission: to be Earth's most customer-centric company Insight: Quick delivery and Great Customer Care are the key value prep of AP. Vision: To be earth's most customer-centric company; to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online. Strengths: Personalization Wide User Base + Wide Seller Base Own delivery fleet (planes, trucks etc) How they make Money: Sellers Commission "See full answer

slouchingtowardssv - "Clarify the problem / make assumptions: What are we defining as misleading? For this problem, any video that contains information countering accepted scientific/research-driven results What is meant by fix? Does that entail removing said videos? For this problem, I want to see if we can minimize the amount of videos pulled from YouTube Intro to the product: YouTube is a video-sharing platform that was acquired by Google in 2006 YouTube's original mission statement:"See full answer

Louie Z. - "DNNs can learn hierarchical features, with each layer learning progressively more abstract features, and generalizes better. SNNs are better for simplier problems involving smaller datasets and if low latency is required."See full answer

Sanjana G. - " are we considering ride sharing app or also Uber Eats? If we are considering Ride sharing app Uber is successful when a Customer is safely dropped at its selected destination and Uber driver is paid for the drive. For Uber to be successful in a new city we want to track Number of completed rides per day/week Number of customers who came back to the app for another ride after first one was completed. Number of active drivers per day. Number of drivers completing at least 1 ride"See full answer

Vinit K. - "I have often experienced my manager believing in something while I don't. The situation largely arises when the manager is under pressure of taking decision and has not spent enough time on researching about the decision. While I on the other hand have always spent time learning about issues right since we feel this is going to be a challenge in the near future. In such scenarios, I would believe something else base on my research while the manager would have some other belief based on his exper"See full answer