Interview Questions

Kartikeya N. - "Clarifying questions By mutual follows, we mean that both of them follow each other on Tiktok, correct? : Yes We want to know an average number for the same, ie mean and not median or any other value, right? : Yes Shall we consider the global audience or that of a particular country? : Global Can we assume the time setting of this question as of 2025?: yes Here’s how I will tackle this question. > We will first estimate the total number of Tiktok users. Then we will try to"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

Vineet M. - "The distribution of daily minutes spent on Facebook per user is heavily right-skewed with a long tail. Most users spend a short amount of time while a smaller segment of heavy users push up the average with 2–3+ hours daily."See full answer

Meenakshi D. - "BETWEEN and HAVING clauses in SQL serve different purposes: 1. BETWEEN Clause Used to filter rows based on a range of values. Works with numeric, date, or text values. Can be used with WHERE or HAVING clauses. The range includes both lower and upper bounds. Example: Filtering employees with salaries between 30,000 and 50,000 `SELECT * FROM Employees WHERE salary BETWEEN 30000 AND 50000;` 2. HAVING Clause Used to filter **groups"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

Divya R. - "static TreeNode buildTree(int] preorder, int[] inorder) {//[2, 4, 5 if(preorder.length==0 || preorder.length!=inorder.length) { isNull=true; return null; } int parentElem=preorder[0];//2 int index=-1; index=binarySearch(inorder, parentElem);//3 //1 if(index==-1) { isNull=true; return null; } TreeNode root=new TreeNode(parentElem); int preOrder=0; int ind=-1; if(index>0) { int[] leftInOrder=Arrays.copyOfRange(inorder, 0, index); //[4, 2, 5]//[4] ind=binarySearch(preorder, inorder[index"See full answer

Imran R. - "What are some of the Tradeoff stories Amazon prefers? Do they prefer the Feature Prioritization type of tradeoff or technology/platform type of tradeoffs? "See full answer

Julien C. - "👇 Your feedback is very much appreciated 👇 Reduce scope of product for the initial launch. Streamline the PRD to an actual MVP and use the current PRD (that takes 6 months to build) for the V1"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

Nitin P. - "public static void sortBinaryArray(int[] array) { int len = array.length; int[] res = new int[len]; int r=len-1; for (int value : array) { if(value==1){ res[r]= 1; r--; } } System.out.println(Arrays.toString(res)); } `"See full answer

Ankita G. - "Merge Sort"See full answer

Sree dhyuti N. - "from typing import List def least_interval(tasks: List[str], n: int) -> int: pass # your code goes here if not tasks: return 0 if n == 0: return len(tasks) dict to keep counts of processes task_counts = {} for i in tasks: print(i) if i in task_counts: task_counts[i] += 1 else: task_counts[i] = 1 schedule intervals = 0 numuniquetasks = len(task_counts.keys()) print"See full answer

Seth W. - "As always, I'd start this discussion by asking a couple clarifying questions. In particular, I'd like to learn more from the interviewer about what "not pulling as hard" looks like. Does it mean: lower code output relative to the rest of the team lower velocity per sprint in terms of story points less participation in code reviews minimal participation in meetings and ceremonies Or perhaps it's a combination of these. As others have pointed out, I'd also want to confirm that I am not ma"See full answer

Sean L. - "df.loc[ isin()] is the crucial part of the solution."See full answer

Anonymous Sparrow - " To start, I'm going to make sure I understand the product correctly and also define what specific business metric we're trying to improve. Second, I will focus on defining the target user for which we want to improve the product and brainstorm what additional user problems we could solve. And third, I will generate solutions for these problems, prioritize them, and make a recommendation." First I want to understand if this product will aim to help me find the pet I want, or help me discover wh"See full answer

Adhitya G. - "Clarifying Questions: Product → It is a online Professional Services platforms where jobs are made much easier for both recruiters and for job-seekers Goal → Increase Number of Users/ Any other Business Goal? Mission → It is to make job-posting/seeking completely hassle free and accessible to everyone. Do we have any timeframe to do this and is there any growth rate that I should be targeting? - 5x in 5 years Students → Are we focusing on Full-time or Part-time students? Any"See full answer