Interview Questions

Akheel M. - "Product recommendation is basically on what you have already viewed / listened etc. It would be based on your clicks, engagement and feedback as well.It mostly works on the most recent experience and sorted by the current experience first ( meeting the above criteria) followed by the relevant sorts by most positive responses in the categories recorded for you."See full answer

John F. - "First, I would like to establish some assumptions about the problem to determine if this is possible. For this scenario, I will assume that “accepted” does not mean a student is enrolled at the university (most students apply to multiple universities and can only attend one university). For simplicity, I will also assume that each student is applies to a single department and that every student is associated with a single department. Based on this information, I see a scenario that this would"See full answer

dungeonMaster - "Objective: Migrate from subscription base business revenue model to ads based revenue model. Continue with subscription base revenue model, showcase ads on platform only. (Not in between the content). Continue with subscription base revenue model, showcase ads on platform and in between content. Provide different monthly plans based on with ads or without ads Increase revenue by X% - Decide based on this object what revenue model to accept. Assumption: Netflix wants to continue"See full answer

Shankhadip M. - "My least favorite product is a desktop software solution called Marg, which is used frequently at our family business. Its an inventory, bookkeeping, and accounting software for small businesses in India and integrates with the official government tax portal. The general journey to accomplish any task, say adding a new product type, is very unintuitive and requires someone to be hands-on and familiar with the product to actually do this. Getting there is pure hit and trial. Like most desktop sof"See full answer

Dhruv M. - "During my internship at Inspira Analytics, our intern team had worked for two weeks on a client presentation for a new data dashboard. Unfortunately, during the final review, the manager pointed out several major flaws in our analysis and asked us to redo the entire structure. The feedback was blunt, and the team felt discouraged, questioning whether our efforts were even valued. As the informal team lead, I felt responsible for helping lift the team’s morale and refocus everyone so we could del"See full answer

Josh L. - "I would define success by first figuring out what our goal is by building the reels feature. Are we trying to increase DAUs? Increase enagement? Etc... For the sake of this, I think to define success it makes most sense to see if there is an increase in the amount of time users are spending on instagram. If time spent per user increases, it is likely that ad spend can increase and in turn increases instagram's reveue. We need to be sure that there are guard rails in place and make sure that by"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

Emilio T. - "I did a design similar to one of the videos you have about designing youtube, but feedback said that I failed on discussions on key details of the design, also failed on the gathering requirements phase."See full answer

Suleman A. - "check the count of both sentences if the same then start loop on words count and check the presence of words are the same."See full answer

Mitchell K. - "How technical and specific do you have to go when describing your past projects?"See full answer

Anonymous Salmon - "clarify: paid users, annual subscription user segmentation: levels; active vs dormant; age; regions use cases & pain points solution brainstorm: retention = activation + engagement + resurrection; prioritization of solutions execution"See full answer

Naresh A. - "Although there is no fixed or predefined framework that I follow to prioritize, I do have a methodical criterion that is suitable to my organization and practices. The business outcome/value proposition of each project/request - try to quantitative every metric below Number of customers going to be impacted in that product vertical - item with more customers gets more weight Is this an existing feature or a new feature - existing features get more weightage especially if thi"See full answer