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

Shashi R. - "How do you define Retention? Let’s assume a user comes back tomorrow and scroll for a 10s or so Do we mean to improve the daily retention or weekly/monthly retention? Take a call I think we should look at the weekly retention as checking LinkedIn daily could be a cumbersome task for some and daily retention data may have frequent fluctuations due to several reasons such as professionals are too busy to check LinkedIn on a daily basis Has retention dropped recently, or do we just need to"See full answer

M N. - "Goal: Merchant growth. Any new market/category? downstream is revenue growth Users: small, medium, large (plus) Focusing on small - biggest, highest need rn Focus on small - entrepreneurs, offline to online, switchers picking entre Needs: onboarding catalog creation inventory mgmt order mgmt fulfillment Not enough tech resources for marketing&ads onboarding personalized onboarding based on product,size,location,experience, target segment s"See full answer

Will P. - "The first step is to clarify what the interviewer means by a sales decline. Questions I would ask here include: Did sales drop suddenly or gradually? What is the magnitude of the sales drop? Are sales down for a specific product? Are sales down for a specific channel (drive-thru, walk-in, etc.)? This series of questions is to make sure we are on the same page when we say 'sales are down.' We may not know the why yet, but the what should be easy to align on. Otherwise, how would"See full answer

Joohi M. - "Drew a framework - Where are we - do competitive analysis of the company Where do we want to go - Align business strategy with product strategy What can we do in the given roadmap - prioritize solutions"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

Mark S. - "Range captures the difference between the highest and lowest value in a data set, while standard deviation measures the variation of elements from the mean. Range is extremely sensitive to outliers, it tells us almost nothing about the distribution of the data, and does not extrapolate to new data (a new value outside the range would invalidate the calculation). Standard deviation, on the other hand, offers us an insight into how closely data is distributed towards the mean, and gives us some pr"See full answer

Samiksha D. - "I assume here that the elderly person does not have much knowledge about technology and the internet. I would like to structure my answer in this way: Concepts of twitter I want the elderly to know. Take an analogy to explain the concepts. Connect the dots between the analogy back to the app. Twitter concepts : A common feed to look at the tweets created by the people in your network. Concept of retweeting. Chatting. Comments/likes. Analogy : Imagine there is an office wi"See full answer

Rika S. - "Snapchat's mission is to re-create how people use camera to capture their life moments. Snapchat's user base is comprised of Gen Z and Millenials, capturing the ~ 12-35 year old age group. Snapchat's goal is to keep these users engaged so they don't leave for enticing competitors like Tic Toc and Quibi. Tic Toc and Quibi are major competitors to Snapchat and they seem to compete on original content. They've partnered with celebrities and media brands to produce really engaging, high quality co"See full answer

Ben G. - "A more senior answer -> influencing stakeholders Defining who stakeholders will be and roles and responsibilities early one Identifying timelines and roadmapping Identifying key business needs and how they related to core product Identifying how the project will be successful (KPIs) Identify business, user and product goals Speaking your stakeholder’s language, build empathy by discovery and understanding their motivations and make them a part of the co-creation process (ie calc"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

Anonymous Jaguar - "Code reviews, automated linting, unit tests, integration tests, validation tests"See full answer

Adib M. - "Situation: introduced to a new technology that I have never used before. I have used many different packaged software, tools and technologies and I can grasp things quickly. Lets assume this new technology is a Planning tool for TPM (Planr) Target: To get familiar with Planr, its use cases, learn it well enough to be able to use it Action: Here are some of the actions I would take to learn Planr well (1) Find documentation on Planr = various use cases, see screenshots, watch demos,"See full answer

Anjan M. - "Product - Google Glass Undefined Core Segment & Jobs-to-Be-Done - Google pitched Glass to “everyone” but never clarified a must-have use case for any one group. Improper Category Context - It was positioned as a lifestyle product, but could not justify a use case that a mobile device could not already do. Premium Pricing of a Prototype- Explorer Edition cost 1500 usd. This gap alienated hobbyists and discouraged volume sales. Privacy Backlash- The Always-on camera r"See full answer

A F. - "Clarifying questions: 1M users- are these paying users? Daily active users? Once we know which users, we look at certain areas of initial investigation for patterns: Dashboards: Is this a flaw in the dashboard, or metrics pipelines not running? (Assuming not a problem) Geography: Are these users in a certain geolocation? (Ex: China bans the use of Netflix?) Users segments: Are these certain age group (kids, where parents might have restricted) or first-time users (they watched only one"See full answer