Interview Questions

Mahaboob P. - "int[] sqSorted(int[] nums) { int i = 0, j = nums.length-1; int k = nums.length-1; int[] sqs = new int[nums.length]; while(i n1) { sqs[k--] = n2; j--; } else { sqs[k--] = n1; i++; } } for(int n: sqs) System.out.println(n); return sqs; }"See full answer

Sagrika S. - "The biggest factor that excites me about technology is its ever changing and dynamic trend. In my life, I have seen the transition from landlines to simple mobile to smartphones, from Cathode tube desktop screen to super slim TFT and many more. I think technology has now (with time) become integral part of human life and getting in-sync with it is like a normal and very cool phenomena."See full answer

Anonymous Possum - "There's good research and data behind the DORA metrics. Enough worth trying out with your team and evaluating the results."See full answer

Yulia D. - "First, I would like to ask some clarifying questions. Are we talking about the business metrics dashboard or health metrics(like response time)? - it is up to you Do I understand right that Netflix is a subscription-based video streaming service for watchers? So I know that they create original content for Netflix, but it is out of the scope of this question. - right My approach will be to: Define the business goal from Netflix’s mission Break down the actions taken by users at each stage of the"See full answer

Shashwat K. - "Binary Search on the array and after than compare the numbers at low and the high pointers whichever is closest is the answer. Because after the binary search low will be pointing to a number which is immediate greater than x and high will be pointing to a number which is immediate lesser than x. int low = 0; int high = n-1; while(low <= high){ int mid = (low + high) / 2; if(x == arr[mid]) return mid; //if x is already present then it will be the closest else if(x < arr[mid]) high"See full answer

kkkt - "Me: First let's clarify the user journey of the Facebook dating app Interviewer: Me: Do we know how success is defined in this context? Interviewer: Please figure that out yourself Me: Ok let's first discuss the mission of Facebook and how Facebook dating app is part of that. Then lets brainstorm what the goals would be for Facebook Dating. That help us determine the user behavior and metrics we can create. Finally let's fi"See full answer

Anonymous Mastodon - "WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO CUSTOMER VALUE TO THE CUSTOMER IMPACT ON THE CUSTOMER PRIORITIZE BASED ON THAT the sales team wants Specific changes to customer - Value NPV etc Client services want automation - Customer priority "See full answer

stash - "Clarification What does showing ads mean ? Is it showing outside of the car as a mobile billboard or showing inside of the car on screens? —> Inside of the car / digital ads What is our product strategy with Waymo. Do we want to get into the ride hailing business or license our tech —> To be defined by you Do we have any near or long term revenue goals for this —> Get wide usage of Waymo tech and be a key driver in accelerating the adoption of self-driving cars accessible in the world"See full answer

Mohit C. - "-- LTV = Sum of all purchases made by that user -- order the results by desc on LTV select u.user_id, sum(a.purchase_value) as LTV from user_sessions u join attribution a on u.sessionid = a.sessionid group by u.user_id order by sum(a.purchase_value) desc"See full answer

jantheman88 - "Company Mission: To Organize the World's Information Clarify: What type of product are we looking to build? Software, Hardware? -> Hardware Makes sense since Google has a strong software stack including Android TV, which is a huge business by Firestick & Nvidia Shield, as well as Chinese based hardware implementations. Is there any restrictions for this type of approach, or are we free to go around any way we'd like? -> You're free to take any approach you'd like. Google has a strong c"See full answer

Kavya C. - "MTBF is Mean time between failures. This is measured to figure out how reliable a system is by what is the gap between 2 failures. (Total time elapsed- Down time)/No of failures"See full answer

Jacky T. - "SELECT order_amount FROM ( SELECT *, rank() OVER(ORDER BY order_amount desc) as ranking FROM departments d LEFT JOIN orders o ON d.departmentid = o.departmentid LEFT JOIN customers c ON o.customerid = c.customerid WHERE department_name = 'Fashion' ) where ranking = 2"See full answer

Ruth J. - "Provided an overview of IG Search and the value it provides for users Gave 3 metrics that I would consider when determining success Shared the metric that I would use as the north star Got a follow up question. If users were clicking on irrelevant results from their search would that affect your metrics and how would you deal with that Do you think it is a bad thing if users use search to search for something, get irrelevant results and perform an action based on that?"See full answer

Raunak K. - "Several reasons why eCommerce will capture a trillion$ market in the next 10 years. User consumption habits have changed and the pandemic has only accelerated user behavior to order online from the convenience of buying from home. The supply chain is becoming better with partnerships and digital products are making shipping and deliveries much more convenient. Many companies investing in automated shipping vehicles eg Drone deliveries and in near future we might see automated driving v"See full answer

Anonymous Jaguar - "Code reviews, automated linting, unit tests, integration tests, validation tests"See full answer

Jim T. - "In the end I said number of bookings, but explained how I would get there. I talked about the company's mission first (which I didn't know but guessed it was something about making it easier or more accessible for people to travel) and then talked about a few potential metrics that could fit (bookings, NPS, etc). But in the end I explained that number of bookings is not only tied to their core value proposition, but it also reflected a happy customer base on both sides of the transaction (renter"See full answer