Interview Questions

Praniti S. - "Google VR mission - my understanding is to provide user an immersive experience where your room is the exploration ground/canvas and consumer has limitless possibilities What i know about VR : VR umbrella: Daydream and Cardboard VR devices: Headset/Cardboard/Desktop/Mobile VR product: Google Maps VR/ Carboard VR/Youtube VR/ TiltBrush/ Blocks VR feature: High quality video/ low latency video? Which product are we adding a new feature to? Tilt Brush which device are we implementing the new feat"See full answer

Googlepm 1. - "To scale web applications, one must concentrate on having Shared hosting / Dedicated server CDN (for images servers) Caching techniques Database Sharding Adding/removing webservers on the fly In order to improve the speed of the web applications, certain techniques to look at : Web hosts - Shared hosting / dedicated server CDN Caching techniques Compression techniques Reduced use of plugins, check Java script / CSS files Pre-fetch : If we are aware that th"See full answer

Aditya G. - "We would like the interviewer to call out bad interviews too. I understand that these guest interviewees are spending their time for Exponent and are probably compensated. Exponent's customers are paying members and they need to know that bad answers are called out as bad answers and why. Telling everyone they are awesome at the end of the PM interview doesn't send the right message to paying subscribers who are spending valuable time training for interviews."See full answer

GSWarriors - "Clarification questions: Is it correct to assume that I am an insurance company provide insurance coverage for Waymo? yes Is it safe to assume that we are talking about self-driving cars (no drivers)? yes Several factors are taken into consideration when insurance companies provide insurance quotes (please not that all of these will apply to self-driving cars): M/F Age Years of driving experience Driving record Expected miles driven / year Cost of vehicle If car will be used for c"See full answer

Googlepm 1. - "Clarifying questions like what is the end goal that we are trying to achieve ? Is it revenue Improving user experience Improving current state - load times / find times / web page rendering / images ? External API consideration Introduction of a new feature in Google Maps Branding related ? Introducing a lite version of Google maps , say for emerging markets ? Based on the above, calculate : What are the positives of the algos ? "See full answer

Tiago R. - "function visitChildren(node) { let leftSubtreeHeight = 0; let rightSubtreeHeight = 0; let isChildrenBalanced = true; if (node.left) { const { isBalanced, height } = visitChildren(node.left); isChildrenBalanced = isChildrenBalanced && isBalanced; leftSubtreeHeight += height + 1; } if (isChildrenBalanced && node.right) { const { isBalanced, height } = visitChildren(node.right); isChildrenBalanced = isChildrenBalanced && isBalan"See full answer

Exponent - "This is another Diagnosis problem. To answer this question, we suggest you use our framework (along with the TROPIC method) to be as thorough as possible. The framework is as follows: Ask clarifying questions List potential high level reasons Gather Context (TROPIC)Time Region Other features / products (internal) Platform Industry / Competition Cannibalization Establish a theory of probable cause Test theories Propose solutions Summarize "See full answer

pmpractice - "I would structure my answer in the following way: What's the situational context? Mission of Uber Making transportation easy by creating a platform for connecting drivers and riders Key market trends: In top tier cities there are players in the food delivery market and the size of the pie is growing fast What would feed into the decision-making? The new platform should be able to connect customers and restaurants. The key things needed to make this platform success"See full answer

Anonymous Amphibian - "Personally i like the simple and user friendly interface of Adobe XD software. Which i have been using since last year and i am very comfortable with that. Nearly i didn't noticed any improvement in the software."See full answer

Alex M. - "A red-black tree is a self-balancing binary search tree. The motivation for this is that the benefits of O(logN) search, insertion, and deletion that a binary tree provides us will disappear if we let the tree get too "imbalanced" (e.g. there are too many nodes on one side of the tree or some branches have a depth that is way out of proportion to the average branch depth). This imbalance will occur if we don't adjust the tree after inserting or deleting nodes, hence our need for self-balancing c"See full answer

Meet P. - "Improve Swiggy’s Revenue What time period? Improve to what extent? Increasing Swiggy’s revenue in next one year (assume) Any specific segment of Business? Swiggy’s Mission Statement : To make food eating experience as comfortable, convenient & authentic. Type of Business Swiggy is in Food Delivery Grocery Delivery - Instamart Dining Let’s Aim for one Business line say Food Delivery lets breakdown the revenue maths for the business and see what we can do to improve revenue F"See full answer

Rahul J. - "Netflix Solves a problem that's mass market High importance and people actively looking for new solutions Value proposition Variety of content reasonable prices for tier 1, 2 and 3 cities Available on mobile, desktops and tablets Business model: subscription based, Revenue = f { # of users, lifetime of subscription, fee charged to user } --> Should Improve engagement to increase lifetime. User journey: Find content: Search for it / take a recommendation Watch it Give"See full answer

Ben G. - "Ask Follow up Questions Is this for specific type of user or open? Do we have any past research that has been done? Do we have an idea of company and user goals? Do we have metrics of success? Are there any existing constraints? Why  |  5 min Why is this product or feature important? How does this product benefit customers? What business opportunities does it create? What is our hypothesis? What are our company goals? Who  |  3 min Who are the different types"See full answer

DM - "Situation - I had 2 projects in hand. 1st - My primary project under my direct line manager, and 2nd - Under a dotted line manager. I committed to my 2nd project based on my assumptions and planning of the primary project's scope & timelines. For both these projects, I was the key resource. Unfortunately, we got some new findings in my first project, and it happened to be a case where management made an overcommitment to our business without gauging the assumptions correctly. This put pressu"See full answer