Interview Questions

Aman G. - "Was given 90 minutes with an exhaustive set of requirements to be implemented as a full-stack coding exercise. It was supposed to have a UX, a server and a database to store and retrieve data. The IDE was supposed to be self-setup before the interview. The panel asked questions on top of the implementation around decision making from a technical perspective"See full answer

Pm P. - "Since success metrics is a very broad term, to dive deep into WCS - What constitutes success. What is the objective of the company/product, north star/mission of the organization or product? Dependent on the company, market, the industry they play in. As an example: Facebook's mission is now empowerment, bringing the people together and giving them the power to build communities. Every part of its product aligns in one way or other with this goal. Be it, its Web/Mobile platform, Instagram,"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

BePostive - "· How well the team is self-motivated and contributing overall success of the company by releasing high quality bug prone releases · Growth of their team members · Does the manager encouraging and supporting career switch based on the individual desire or passion"See full answer

Tiago R. - "function knapsack(weights, values, cap) { const indicesByValue = Object.keys(weights).map(weight => parseInt(weight)); indicesByValue.sort((a, b) => values[b]-values[a]); const steps = new Map(); function knapsackStep(cap, sack) { if (steps.has(sack)) { return steps.get(sack); } let maxOutput = 0; for (let index of indicesByValue) { if (!sack.has(index) && weights[index] <= cap) { maxOutput ="See full answer

Anonymous Dove - "The experience at a DMV can be improved by modernizing the systems, processes, and design of the service. Some possible ways to do this are: Using digital technologies to enable online transactions, self-service kiosks, mobile apps, and chatbots. These can reduce the need for in-person visits, shorten wait times, and increase convenience and accessibility for customers. [For example, some states have implemented online driver’s license renewal, vehicle registration, and appointment schedul"See full answer

Sangeeta P. - "A/B testing is used when one wishes to only test minor front-end changes on the website. Consider a scenario where an organization wishes to make significant changes to its existing page, such as wants to create an entirely new version of an existing web page URL and wants to analyze which one performs better. Obviously, the organization will not be willing to touch the existing web page design for comparison purposes. In the above scenario, performing Split URL testing would be beneficial. T"See full answer

Exponent - "This may seem tricky at first, but this is actually an Expansion problem, since we're expanding to a new market. The only difference is this is specifically for small businesses within that market. This is the formula you should use when tackling these types of interview questions: Ask clarifying questions Perform user analysis Market risk analysis State goals Perform channel analysis Prioritize growth channels Strategy Summarize Witho"See full answer

Kiran R. - "Automated Reimbursement System 1. Clarifying Questions Scope: Will the system be applicable to all employees or only specific grades/levels? Ownership: Are we building this product internally for our own use, or is it intended for external/outsourced usage? MVP Requirements: Besides automation, what additional features or problem statements should the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) address? 2. User Segmentation Commute Expenses: e.g., m"See full answer

Exponent - "This is a Favorite Product question with a slight twist. We have a constraint: picking a physical product. This should be relatively easy since you use physical products personally every day. Let's go over the Favorite Product formula before we begin: Choose a product and briefly explain what it is Who are the users? What are their pain points? How did competitors solve it in the past? How does this product address these pain points differently and better? "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

Unicorn 2. - "Clarifying questions: What is leisure travel? Assuming : Travel for vacation not business What is the vision/mission of the company that we are developing this for (I would like to keep this as an anchor to any users, pain points, solutions that we pick) Assuming : Brand new company - startup. Nothing specific in vision/mission for now. When we say travel user experience -> Do we have an existing product that we want to improve on? Is yes, is there any particular complaint or metric issue rel"See full answer