Interview Questions

Maggie S. - "I would structure my answer to this question by considering: Clarifying Questions Landscape Options for Growth Prioritization Risks & Considerations Clarifying Questions Are we talking about Uber’s ride sharing service, Uber Eats, or both? -- assume Uber rides Do we care about total users who have ever used the platform, or total users per day/time period? -- assume ever How many resources do we have to acquire resources? -- assume have a budget larger than the curre"See full answer

Casey C. - "Determine the requirements Perform basic checks on the frontend before submitting to the server Length Check for invalid or required characters Client-side validation messaging Perform more advanced checks on the server if required Does the password include the user's name, etc Handle server-side validation messaging"See full answer

M A. - "Clarifying question - Fb Timeline is essentially my profile wall on FB where I can post content. My friends, friends of friends or other users of FB can come and view my profile and stay connected. Content that I post on my timeline, also gets cross posted on my friends feed. Is that understanding correct? Are there any new goals of change of product strategy that I need to be aware of? Motivation/Why - FB timeline is a mature product, but it still aligns very well with Meta mission of connec"See full answer

Geetesh T. - "Situation: While in the middle of a migration project, which required rewrite of services of my product into a cloud infra., we needed to configure our rules management services onto cloud as per legacy platform. The data extract of all the rules from legacy platform in a csv file needed heavy formatting to be usable for configuration of the new service. My entire engineering capacity was allocated on other prioritized ongoing feature migration and I had no bandwidth left in the ongoing spri"See full answer

Rahul J. - "Clarifying questions Key value proposition of the product: targeted search engine for kids to search the internet Target users: kids below 18 years of age Target geography: USA Form factor: web app Target market Kids (largely school students) are now increasingly using the internet for educational purposes to perform assignments, collaborate on projects etc. A search engine is a core need to access the internet for this audience and is needed quite frequently - almost every time a"See full answer

Amparo L. - "The reason I want to work at Doordash is because I’m a really hard worker, I never give up and I’m good at delivering stuff to my teachers at school whenever they have something to drop off to them, I look at the paper and then I read the directions given to me on the ipad to drop it off."See full answer

Exponent - "We should follow the Measure Success formula for this type of question. Do you remember it from a couple days ago? If not, it's: Ask clarifying questions State the goal of the feature Apply a UX flow to drive analysis of what to measure Provide criteria to prioritize metrics Prioritize metrics Summarize With that, let's get into it! Ask clarifying questions We want to make sure we are 100% sure of the scope of the feature and ask. What does the p"See full answer

Scott S. - "Great question! Before communicating any major change, I would ensure I have a deep understanding of the strategic shift, its rationale, and its implications. This involves meeting with senior management to gather all necessary details and preparing to address any questions or concerns from the team. To share a recent experience I had, so Last year, our senior management decided to shift our focus towards leveraging machine learning and advanced real-time analytics to enhance our trading stra"See full answer

Shivam S. - "We utilized AI and ML to improve the product’s accuracy and performance and to generate insights from customer data. We also leveraged the cloud to store and manage customer data securely. Additionally, we implemented smart assistants to automate customer support and help customers quickly resolve inquiries."See full answer

Abdurhman M. - "To determine what predictions to show, our systems look for common queries that match what someone starts to enter into the search box but also consider:"See full answer

Marcos G. - "with my_table as (select * , rownumber() over(order by customerid) as row_index from customers) select customer_id, customer_name from my_table where row_index % 3 = 0"See full answer

Alex N. - "The adjusting context window size in LLM change trade off between reasoning capability, accuracy, computation cost. It influence how attention mechanist allocate resources across the input. Longer context window let it you input greater number of words and have more context to generate proper next token. However llms have lost in the middle issue. They remember the beginning of text and end of text but lost information located in the middle of long input. Another problem is Attention Dilution."See full answer

Christina Z. - "That is a great product opportunity. I see the vision to drive engagement by building a reward based experience to encourage kids to login to the app and track their books and trigger a visual pleasing experience when the child completes a book. The more complex the book, the bigger the reward."See full answer

Gabriel R. - "Thanks! First let me ask some clarifying questions: Do you mean mobile app? TV app? I will assume mobile and TV included. When I'm playing the role of the CEO, should I consider their current business' state? Yes I should. Is there a goal I should aim for as CEO? Yes we want to maximize retention on our app. My favorite 3 apps are: Google Translate Collectr Peloton I love these app because they help me out tremendously weekly! Google Translate is a free a"See full answer

Devendra B. - "As a direct competitor to my favorite product, our mission is to enhance productivity for creative professionals. Targeting small design agencies, our solution offers a streamlined project management platform tailored to their specific needs. Launch feasibility relies on user feedback, ensuring impact and monetization through subscription-based pricing. Success metrics include user engagement and retention rates."See full answer