Interview Questions

Anuradha T. - "What‘s the goal of increasing Spotify’s premium subscribers? - To monetize and get more premium subscribers Users: Target users could potentially fall in 3 categories 1) Users who are interested in paying a premium price for great curated playlists 2) Users who are interested in listening to music but not willing to pay a price Targeting #1 Pain points: 1) As a user I wouldn’t want to subscribe to something w/o being listening to the playlists 2) If I do subscribe I would like to receiv"See full answer

Dhruv M. - "During my internship at Insighta Analytics, our team was planning to prioritize a marketing campaign focused on customer acquisition through social media ads. The marketing lead was confident this would yield the best ROI based on past success. I was tasked with supporting the strategy by analyzing customer engagement trends. But as I dove into the data, I started to question whether the current direction was the best use of our budget. I analyzed customer conversion data from the last two quart"See full answer

Gaurav K. - "I think sliding window will work here and it is the most optimized approach to solve this question."See full answer

rkk293 - "How would you increase the number of comments on groups?"See full answer

Nithesh S. - "First, let us start with the mission of Amazon: “We strive to offer our customers the lowest possible prices, the best available selection, and the utmost convenience.” Alignment of recommendations system with Amazon's mission: Suggesting recommendations to the users would be a part of this mission as it would allow users to buy things on their mind for the lowest cost in market (may or may not be true). They might get better prices if they order adjacent items together. For example, i"See full answer

Jessica C. - "select customer_id, order_date, orderid as earliestorder_id from ( select customer_id, order_date, order_id, rownumber() over (partition by customerid, orderdate order by orderdate) as orderrankper_customer from orders ) sub_table where orderrankper_customer=1 order by orderdate, customerid; Standard solution assumed that the orderid indicates which order comes in first. However this is not always the case, and sometime orderid can be random number withou"See full answer

Chayan R. - "Clarifying questions: You said on average, having 5 reviews can have positive impact, so I am assuming we will plan to pay for 500 reviews. Is that correct or am I missing anything here ? One information which seems to be missing here to come up with the exact price per review is the number of active visitors from which we are calculating the sales conversion rate. Do we have that information or I should include that as a variable in the price per review. ( assuming we are taking that as a var"See full answer

Vishal S. - "Product Understanding - Push notifications are pop up notifications received on the device (phone, tablet etc.) sent by various Meta apps whenever a new post has been made or a new message is received Clarifying Questions - Is is specific to one device? Is it specific to one product? Is it specific to one region? Is it specific to one OS? Is this as a result of changes to algorithm/UI? Existing or a new feature? Assumptions - KPI calculation will only be for users who h"See full answer

B. T. - "You are given a string S and a number K as input, and your task is to print S to console output considering that, at most, you can print K characters per line. Example: S = "abracadabra sample" K = 11 Output: abracadabra sample Note that this problem requires the interviewee gather extra requirements from the interviewer (e.g. do we care about multiple white spaces? what if the length of a word is greater than K, ...)"See full answer

Beginner P. - "Skeleton: Mission Metrics to improve User segments & the segment with most impact User journey Pain points and opportunities Features/solutions & prioritization Starting with Twitter's mission, "the power to create and share ideas & information without any barriers", we are looking to empower people to be both consumers and generators of content. Are these users interacting with Twitter on the website or the mobile app? [Clarifying with interviewer, who answers mobile app.] "See full answer

Julien C. - "👇 Your feedback is very much appreciated 👇 Defining metrics: Activation Mobile downloads New user registration Retention and Engagement Nb messages sent Average nb of contacts per user Nb groups Monetization CAC LTV ARPU MRR Prioritizing: What matters most for WhatsApp right now is Engagement. I would therefore prioritize these three: Nb messages sent Average nb of contacts per user Nb groups"See full answer

Amy M. - "Before we head into this - let's redefine this question to identify some objectives and key results: re-Design FB security privacy intimacy a few questions I want to clarify are: Is this for desktop, mobi web, or apps? Apps Is this for US only? Yes May I assume some resources available for me? Such as Designers, Data Scientists, Developers? Sure ----- Okay let me think about this for a min ---- I'd like to start off by: Thinking about th"See full answer

Amparo L. - "My parents because they take really good care of me whenever I feel sick"See full answer

shg - "(This was not search autocomplete based on prefix matching question.) First of all, please note :- The interviewer is not expecting you to get to the right answer in just 1 hr. These systems have been designed over months and improved over years and its impractical for anyone to expect you to get to the right answer in 1 hr. (There is no one single right answer). At the end, the interviewer (director level person) told me the same. What they are looking for is your thought process, getting from"See full answer

Hari priya K. - "Hey Grandma, you've had a lot of experience with infants, haven't you? When they were babies, you taught them how to chew in their first six months. This initial phase is like giving them data. Once they learned how to chew, they could handle any food you gave them. Next, you refined their learning by teaching them that they should only chew on food. This is like refining the data so they understand what is relevant. Then, a few months later, they started crawling and walking, learning by observ"See full answer

Alick C. - "The first step is to engage the coworker. Listen to their request and try to understand the root cause of the discomfort. Is it internal or is it the environment that the team operates in, is it a specific individual. Having an open conversation, I believe adds to a culture of being open to discussions for feedback. Depending on the response, would work together with the coworker to identify means or ways that can reduce/remove the discomfort and what can produce an ideal working environment. Th"See full answer

onering2ruleall - "Total volume of the swimming pool, let's say it's a standard 50m x 25 m x 2m =2500 m3 = 2.5 million litter standard water horse water flow rate is 17 liter per min. So, 2.5 m / 17 =147,059 min"See full answer

SG - "Clarifying questions - Alexa HW, Alexa SW, Alexa particular feature? Assumption - Pick any. Picking HW due to relevance with my background. Any particular pain point that we are trying to address, or any specific goal that I should be aware of? Assumption - None. Mine to pick. Goal for Amazon is to be the most customer centric company. To extend the same vision - With Alexa HW our goal is to provide the best customer experience possible. **Restating problem state"See full answer