Interview Questions

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

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

Pablo S. - "1) Product, the value and the users this business has Product: Yelp is a platform that connects local businesses with people looking for those services. Value: Yelpers can connect with them / book appointments or make reservations with a good amount and quality of reviews per business. For businesses, it is a way to get visibility and find new demand with an easy setup. Users: Local businesses (offering): successful when they are booked. Searchers / demand: successful when"See full answer

Scott S. - "To recount an experience from my last project . We were at the initial stages of designing a new data platform to enhance our trading analytics capabilities. The conflict arose over the selection of a data processing framework. I was advocating for Apache Spark due to its scalability and performance benefits, especially for handling large volumes of derivatives data. Another senior team member preferred a different technology they had more experience with, which they believed would be easier to"See full answer

Michelle D. - "I would first want to confirm my understanding of the reasoning behind no-ads-allowed in the top left of the feed. For this case, I will assume that the rule is not a hard rule and one in which we may test in this prompt. I'd next confirm my understanding of Pinterest's revenue model with the interviewer. My understanding is as follows: Pinterest serves ads to pinners. Conversion (i.e., purchase) via the ad yields some amount of profit to Pinterest. There's some amount of costs associated and"See full answer

Pm P. - "Alexa: Is the virtual assistant that runs on amazon smart speakers as well as on other devices. Clarification on goals/Objectives: What would the goal at that point of time be? Is it increase in revenue ? Either via new customers i.e. adoption or Increasing the wallet share of the customer? Increasing the sales ordered via Alexa ? Why do people want to use Alexa? To get answers, make their lives easier by automating activities within their home Integrates with amazon account so"See full answer

Adib M. - "Useful article on API migration https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tips-successful-api-migration-pooja-nihalani/"See full answer

Abhi S. - "CQs Is 10x capacity any specific time or in general Any time of the day , store should be able to handle To confirm, Grocery store objective is to sell day to day grocery and vegetables? Or do we want to include any other products Day to day grocery Why is the foot traffic more than 10x the typical cap. Was the store designed poorly or did the store not predict the foot traffic correctly ? We suddenly become local's favorite We want to design this single store to handle 10X capacity an"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

M N. - "Driver retention is important to ensure growth since we need healthy retention of existing drivers while we acquire new drivers so that we meet growing demand. Should we look at a specific driver segment to improve retention? We might divide the drivers by their age on the platform: New drivers(less than 3 months since first ride), Medium age (3mos to 1 year), Long term(1+ years). Let's focus on the medium term since I assume them to be the biggest segment. Now lets try to list out possible pr"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

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

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