Interview Questions

Sai ganapathy S. - "Estimate the number of Slack Users. Are we going to calculate the number of Slack users only in the US or throughout the world ? Slack users within the US By Slack users, are we going to consider only personal account users or enterprise account owners as well ? Both. Enterprise and Personal Account. Assuming that there are around 330 Million individuals in the US, splitting them into various age groups. 0-20, 2-40, 40-60 - 80 Million each Above 80 = 80 Million Since"See full answer

fuzzyicecream14 - "1. Sales & Revenue Metrics Total Units Sold – Tracks overall headset sales volume. Revenue Growth (%) – Measures whether revenue is increasing from headset sales over time. Sales by Channel – Identifies how sales are distributed across Google Store, third-party retailers (Amazon, Best Buy), and carrier partnerships. Sales by Region – Helps understand geographic demand and refine regional marketing efforts. Attach Rate – Measures how often the headset is purc"See full answer

Anjali A. - "The product owner works closely with the tech team day to day, keeping track of the sprint stories and backlog and helping to unblock day to day blockers and dependencies. The product manager oversees the roadmap of features from the discovery to solutioning stage."See full answer

Varun J. - "Feel free to download the full assignment (with screens) here: https://www.varunja.in/blog/assignment, cheers! Expected Outcome: Users: What do you know about the users of WhatsApp? What do they want? Features: What features will you build? Prioritization: What will be in your MVP and what will be in your 2.0 version? After you have decided on the MVP: Engineering: How hard is this to build? How long might it take? Are there ways to build a solution more"See full answer

Shubh T. - "Clarifying Qns: Note: How do we define DAUs? Let's say it's open ended and based on general engagement (watch time, comments, etc.) Did the watch time went down and comments went up for the same videos or are we saying total watch time and total comments on Youtube? (Total) I am assuming we are not including Youtube Live videos because those are typically live chat 1000’s of comments for a single video. (Correct) Do we know if these two could be independent problems not correlated wit"See full answer

Denny T. - "well i think they're parents should ask ride service"See full answer

Ekta M. - "Some clarification questions On a very top layer these are the building blocks of the Quick Commerce companies. Let me know if you wanna deep dive in any specific. Users - browses the catalogue and selects the items that they wanna buy. Dark Store - This is where the catalogue is stored i.e. the items to be ordered. Imagine this to be a huge super store but only the delivery executives are allowed to shop in their. There are multiple of these dark stores, when you enter your address you get"See full answer

Pratik H. - "How would you define success for Doordash Clarify- Are we looking at the US Market? Yes Are we we looking at it from today? Yes Are looking at mobile or web? Both Has anything changed in doordash;s strategy or marketplace I should be aware of? Nothing major Lets talk a little about the misssion of doordash. It probably goes something along the lines make food delivery as easy as possible. Their core product is three sided. You have drivers on one end, customers that order food on the other and"See full answer

Indranil G. - "It is NYC so mainly a business area. Also, there will be travelers to visit. Now we estimate that 5% of them are business travelers and 3 % of them are tourist So 8000000*5% = 400000 is Business And 7600000*3% = 228000 is tourist Now we also need to consider there are a family tourist who will use the same room that let us estimate 40% of the tourists are family means 40% * 7988000M = 91200 family and 1368000 is solo travelers 45600 are family room required considering there are 2 fa"See full answer

Anonymous Shrimp - "Let's assume that the school furniture includes Table, Chair and Whiteboard. Now, the first step is to find the number of students in the U.S Let's assume that the population of the U.S is 300M. Let's assume that Americans start education at 5 years old till 25 for undergrad. It means Americans spend 20 years of their life in school. Average living years for people is 80. 20/80 * 100 = 25%. It means 25% of the American population attends college. 25/100*300M = 75M. So, there are 75M students"See full answer

Anonymous Porcupine - "Scope Clarification with Interviewer: Is it a standard civil 4-seater helicopter or a Military cargo carrier? Do we wish to calculate the balls in the passenger compartment only or do I consider the gas tank and other spaces in a helicopter? 3.Is the helicopter loaded with seats and passengers or do I assume that there are no seats and passengers/ pilot? Assumptions: The interviewer asked me to make assumptions. Its a standard 4-seater helicopter It is empty but has the standard seat"See full answer

Mitchell K. - "Is there a take-home exercise? How important is it and will there be questions on your take-home during subsequent rounds?"See full answer

Elle Z. - " why do we want to improve the DMV? we’re a startup and we want to improve the experience at the DMV what is the DMV? my assumption is that this is for the US only, and is the department of motor vehicles. and this is where folks go to get IDs, register their cars, etc. is that correct or am I missing anything about what the DMV is? is there a timeframe to launch? are there any other constraints that I should be aware of? context: what is the DMV - the DMV is a something of a"See full answer