Interview Questions

Flora K. - "USING RECURSION"See full answer

Disha - "TikTok → short-form video platform where users share, post, comment, and like each other’s videos Clarifying Questions Define Active → Users who are opening the app at least once a day for a particular duration say 1 min Geography? Consider India for this case Is the source/BI Tool where we saw the drop valid enough? TikTok is both on the app as well as browser - Where are we seeing the drop? Is there a particular platform wherein we are seeing the drop? Android or iOS New"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

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

Sarabjeet S. - "Clarifications: Who are we? Google, US context, no constraints, no specific type of mw, at home or work? home Vision: Enable healthy and happy living through delicious, healthy and safe food quickly & easily Goal: Engagement (repeated use) User Segments (JTBD): Prepare food at home regularly Prepare food at home occasionally Make/eat food at home rarely/never Pain points: Don’t know how to cook Don’t have time to get ingredients **Don’t have time to"See full answer

Rika S. - "Great question! I think it's very important to teach kids about investment. Couple that with the trend of kids becoming tech savvy at a younger age, there's a big opportunity to design a useful product. I'd like to start by breaking down the customer segment of "kids." I will assume that kids who will use this product come from more affluent backgrounds and their parents have investment accounts. We certainly could target kids from a lower socioeconomic background, but I think the barriers for"See full answer

Jessie Y. - "Instagram Reels: Instagram's answer to TikTok, Reels allows users to create and share short-form videos within the Instagram app. It leverages Instagram's existing user base and social features. YouTube Shorts: YouTube introduced Shorts as a feature within its platform to enable users to create short, catchy videos. It capitalizes on YouTube's extensive content creator community and viewer base. Snapchat Spotlight: Snapchat's Spotlight feature highlights short-form videos in"See full answer

Y C. - "Clarifying questions Financial savviness is it related means Digital wallet Prudent Spending habits Intuitive savings Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful Geographical or any other constraint Product goal - This is in total alignment with Google's mission as it is trying to provide the consumers their financial information and making it useful. Engagement User personas Students Millennials Professionals -"See full answer

Aiswarya R. - "Use voice recognition system to interact"See full answer

Rahul J. - "Clarifying questions Key value proposition of the product: an app that the blind can use to hail taxi service. User type: fully blind people, based in the USA. Form Factor: Mobile app for iOS and Android Target market Mobility is a basic human need. Currently, blind people are either dependent on others OR have to compromise on being mobile. -> Importance of problem is high People need to visit multiple places in a day: work, leisure activities, social life etc. --> the frequency of"See full answer

Jyoti V. - "Over-fitting of a model occurs when model fails to generalize to any new data and has high variance withing training data whereas in under fitting model isn't able to uncover the underlying pattern in the training data and high bias. Tree based model like decision tree and random forest are likely to overfit whereas linear models like linear regression and logistic regression tends to under fit. There are many reasons why a Random forest can overfits easily 1. Model has grown to its full depth a"See full answer

Claire W. - "Add more social features"See full answer

Suhasan C. - "i'm going to Structure my answer like this: make sure we both are on the same page by asking Qs Users and their use cases/pain points Prioritise the use cases Brainstorm some solution Priritize the solutions + Trade offs Metrics define success Clarifying Qs: Who are we? ==> MicroSoft team who designs physical product Whiteboard so==> mething where people can write/draw to present/explain/workout Office==> workplace. Not schools/univ Smart ==> It understands most o"See full answer

Exponent - "This is a classic Strategy Question, which asks you to justify high-level business decisions and strategy. With many acquisition strategy questions, we can first look at core competencies and synergies before offering more complex reasoning. > I remember that - it made huge headlines around late 2019. I definitely think there are a few solid reasons why your team may have made this acquisition, for example:Incentivize retailers to use PayPal > Leverage PayPal tech resources to grow Honey > O"See full answer