Interview Questions

Rohan S. - "Honestly, I would’ve loved something like this when I was younger. I couldn’t wait till the day I was 18 so I could start investing and would read personal finance books on random topics. Clarification Questions Kids is a very broad term, is there a specific age range you had in mind or would you want me to determine that myself? > I will assume that this will start off as an application, and then later can be integrated on a"See full answer

Anonymous Giraffe - "this is not a helpful interview, she seems so unprepared, confusing, unable to netting it out :("See full answer

Anonymous Jellyfish - "Thank you for the question! Normally, I would want to ask some clarifying questions to try to better understand the scope of the problem. Below are some of those questions & assumptions I am going to make because I need to submit an answer without getting a response. Question 1: What is Facebook’s north star metric for this exercise? Growth? Engagement? I’m also keeping in mind that because we are talking about building a birthday feature in the earlier stages of Facebook, their north s"See full answer

Greg W. - "Clarifying Questions: Is this for business travel, personal travel, or both? Are there any particular objectives that we want to focus on? Think about why Facebook would want to do this is it because they are thinking about building an external-facing travel product, and want to test it on Facebook employees first? Facebook employees work hard, so they want to make sure that their employees are taking the vacations they need to optimize performance List user types employees trav"See full answer

Kim L. - "Explore expanding beyond just two small roooms-- bigger rooms or a third room? Get insights from those who are teleporting about what the experience is like"See full answer

Kartikeya N. - "Clarifying questions We are referring to Facebook here within Meta products, correct?: Yes Can we base the CAC as of 2025?: yes Facebook acquires users through multiple channels, are we focussed on any particular channel? : We are looking at an overall CAC for Facebook What all do we want to include in CAC? Can we limit it to the marketing and advertising costs and leave aside technical, infrastructure or people costs?: yes Here’s how I will calculate this. **Customer acquisition c"See full answer

Sean L. - " import pandas as pd def findaveragedistance(gps_data: pd.DataFrame) -> pd.DataFrame: #0. IMPORTANT: get the unordered pairs gpsdata['city1']=gpsdata[['origin','destination']].min(axis=1) gpsdata['city2']=gpsdata[['origin','destination']].max(axis=1) #1. get the mean distance by cities avgdistance=gpsdata.groupby(['city1','city2'], as_index=False)['distance'].mean().round(2) avgdistance.rename(columns={'distance':"averagedistance"}, inplace=True) "See full answer

Mallikarjun B. - "I consider my greatest strengths to be my inquisitive nature and my ability to empathize with users. My inquisitiveness drives me to question and challenge the status quo, constantly seeking new perspectives and innovative approaches. I find inspiration in observing advertisements, analyzing their plots, and connecting them to the products being advertised. This curiosity fuels my creativity and pushes me to think outside the box. Furthermore, my empathetic nature plays a vital role in my desig"See full answer

Shawn S. - "Context: As a people manager, my biggest thing is to foster psychological safety for my team members and the way I do that: building rapport between me and my direct reports, weekly team meetings I ensure all voices are heard, have people share about themselves and encourage them to get to know one another. Team members had a good understanding of each other’s working style. One of the recent projects my team was responsible for building out the espresso test framework on android. This was"See full answer

Kevin S. - "The question given is intentionally very open ended. As the key phrases used are "air travel" which can encompass all parts of the journey not just the airport or flight experience & "improve the perception" which doesn't necessarily require fixing the problem (although you'd hope that was part of the conclusion). In addition, the constraints of time (1-year) and resources ($10M) means you must be very prescriptive. As such I think it'd be important to ask the following clarifying questions"See full answer

Piyush D. - "Honestly, In addition to having the right expertise and skills required for this job, I am really looking forward to being part of this organisation’s journey. I am really confident that I will really exceed your expectations in achieving both mine and the company’s goals. I have worked with different teams in different capacities, managed a team of engineers successfully from very early part of my career and that has made me a very easy person to work with. I get things done easily. I am passio"See full answer

Trusha M. - "Actually, all experiences in my life have been important so far. I say this with conviction since i consider myself a highly introspective person and often find ways to make myself more efficient. So, retrospection becomes very important for me. Still amongst them, the most valuable experience for me during my entrance exam preparation. I wasn't a good scorer and despite studying for the entire day couldnt score marks. It my self confidence to plummet. In the final days of the exam, i just told"See full answer

Scarlett S. - "(This is debugging, then trade off question) WAU and email open rates can be influencing each other, especially an email opened and then clicked could lead to an active user, but it doesn't necessarily mean that they have correlations or be the only reason causing changes. The approach So we definitely need to look at each cause of Why MAU goes up, and why email notification open rates go down, then develop some hypothesis on for proper cause, I'd love to gather some info to narr"See full answer

Asish B. - "The supply and demand for Uber Eats may be greatly impacted in the near future by the two macroeconomic factors listed here. Each trend links to large alterations in consumer behavior, labor markets, and cost structures that can cascade across the delivery ecosystem. Changes in Consumer Spending and Inflation Growing Costs and Fees for Food: Customers may order fewer deliveries or choose less expensive goods if food prices, restaurant running costs, or delivery fees increase as a result of"See full answer

Ritaban M. - " Brute Force Two Pointer Solution: from typing import List def two_sum(nums, target): for i in range(len(nums)): for j in range(i+1, len(nums)): if nums[i]+nums[j]==target: return [i,j] return [] debug your code below print(two_sum([2, 7, 11, 15], 9)) `"See full answer

Dheeraj S. - "I said dockerizing the application and taking them in the Kubernetes cluster will help, I created a diagram of all the API they had."See full answer

Anjaly J. - "Goal of the engine : 1. Recommend the "right" videos 2. Make users watch the videos continuously The design consists of 4 different components : Video database (corpus): Consists of million of videos. Recommendation Engine : Based on User history (watch and search history, when enabled) coupled with user context (country, time of the day), the millions of videos are filtered to hundreds of videos and passed through the recommendation engine Ranking : Apart from user history and contex"See full answer