Interview Questions

Vijendar K. - "I'd like to clarify the question here for better understanding. Are we targeting any location? Assuming WW Do we have any demographics of the users? Assuming overall users Did we see any drop recently in TV watching users metrics for which we want to improve the watch time on TVs? No, in general we want to improve this area. Are we looking to improve the overall Netflix watch time on TV, not to acquire new users? Correct. As Netflix is offering content of so many genres of con"See full answer

Anil K. - "Acquisition New sign-ups for Google Drive Service Google Drive app installs Activation Number of users with at least one file since sign-up Paid Google Drive Users Engagement DAU, MAU Sessions, Frequency Time spend Files accessed per session Task completion - sharing file, setting up automatic back up etc. Retention % Repeat Users % Users Churning out Google App Uninstalls Referral Inviting"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

Christopher K. - "Amazon is releasing a product recommendation carousel. Q1. How would we approach this launch with executive leadership? Q2. How would you obtain the data to find out if you should launch and what sample size should your testing batch be for an A/B test scenario? Clarifying Questions What is the current goal for the product recommendation - Increase sales How does the current product recommendation view look like on the home page - A mosaic list view Are there any existing custome"See full answer

Steve M. - "def split_count(s): return 2**(len(s)-1) `"See full answer

Parag - "Clarify Retention for which side of the platform - advertisers, groceries/shops, shoppers, users? - Assume Is there any specific event or trend driving retention down or we’re looking in general to overall improve from current state? - Assume Is this tied to any particular geography or region? - Assume Is this tied to any specific persona within our 4 sided platform? - Assume Are we changing the definition of retention (time, frequency, others)? - Assume no Goal - Improve the use"See full answer

Coach - "Product "XYZ" explain what it is and which audience it is serving. Goals Ease the anxiety Offer the most comprehensive perspective of Cloud Engagement Democratize Upsell Insights Business Review Deck Slide #1: NPS - Now, Trend & Insights + Call To Action: FYI & solicit feedback Slide #2: User Engagement Update - DAU, WAU, MAU, Actions Completed + Call To Action: FYI & solicit feedback Slide #3: Partnership Update - Share new cross org collabor"See full answer

Zakery K. - "I told a story about having good intentions to help out a superior with a problem but I did so without seeking buy-in (permission) first. While I did solve the problem and provided value to him and my other colleagues, I was reprimanded for crossing boundaries and not respecting his privacy (I accessed his computer without his permission to deliver a resolution to a problem). While I had good intentions and the outcome was good, my approach left me with a negative mark and a life long lesson r"See full answer

Rahul D. - "What will be the technical Interview looks like for Program Manager at Microsoft? What types of questions they generally ask."See full answer

Niaz - "Clarification questions: Does this include Street view photos, which includes (roads & highways, underwater & insider building and walking street view photos) ? No, for this question we will only look at photos taken via satellites. Google earth photographs the entire earth including land and oceans ? Yes Components of the equation (Square mile covering land x Number of photos per sq mile x Size of each photo x cost) + (Square mile covering ocean x Number of photos per"See full answer

Tiago R. - "function generateParentheses(n) { if (n < 1) { return []; } if (n === 1) { return ["()"]; } const combinations = new Set(); let previousCombinations = generateParentheses(n-1); for (let prev of previousCombinations) { for (let i=0; i < prev.length; i++) { combinations.add(prev.slice(0, i+1) + "()" + prev.slice(i+1)); } } return [...combinations]; } `"See full answer

Rohit K. - "Clarifying scope : This is a feature on top of existing swiggy app to deliver prepared food for health-conscious people Clarify the term health conscious : Calory counters Macro trackers : Need balance of carb, protein, fat etc. Fresh Eaters :Need fresh ingredients Allergic due to some ingredient Ill people There can be various user personas along with respective pain points are: 1) Gym goers : No way to count the calories or track macro intakes in a swiggy order 2) Fresh eaters : Lack"See full answer

Nithesh S. - "Before getting into the solution aspect, let us revisit Amazon's mission. Mission: Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Participants: Therefore any improvement in the marketplace should be in sync with this thought process. Participants in the marketplace have both buyers and sellers. We can improve the platform either of them or both of them. **Wh"See full answer

Joel A. - "Clarify: User experience improvements or revenue based improvements for the company? (Assumed UX) Can it be hardware or must it be software? (assumed I have the choice) Position: My favorite product is Airbnb. It's an app that let's people list their home for short term rental and then let's guests book those homes (or rooms) to stay in. It's used primarily for vacations but people all over the world now use it for business or even longer term stays. It's idea was pretty revolutionary a"See full answer

Aidynn E. - "Let's start with clarifying question -> What do we want to achieve with increased engagement? Let's say Spotify has personalization that prefers more engaged songs/podcast to be available to new users (who have not heard that song). Along the same lines as Facebook/Linkedin/Instagram prefers posts. The more the song/podcast is engaged among users, for more people it will be visible to listen. What users we are targeting? There are 2 broad categories of users such as creators and listen"See full answer

Sourabh G. - "Functional Requirement Monitor health, metrics Alert in case of failure/anomaly Visualize the live health Analyse machines on periodic basis Non Functional Should not exert load on machines low latency Highly scalable Logs/Metrics Gathering push - machine gather and send to system and low priority background thread along with batching pull - heart beat check (for offline machines) Processing Real time streaming using Kafka/kinesis + Flink TimeSeries database for stor"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