Interview Questions

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

realkimchi - "Objective: Proposal for expanding the service offerings for small restaurants and local cafes. The objective is to enhance the Instacart Business platform by integrating local vendors (Speciality Food & Beverage Business Units) to increase product selection and improve supply chain efficiencies for business customers. Market Focus: The target market includes food service establishments characterized by their need for distinct, locally sourced ingredients and their struggles wi"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

dungeonMaster - "Objective: Migrate from subscription base business revenue model to ads based revenue model. Continue with subscription base revenue model, showcase ads on platform only. (Not in between the content). Continue with subscription base revenue model, showcase ads on platform and in between content. Provide different monthly plans based on with ads or without ads Increase revenue by X% - Decide based on this object what revenue model to accept. Assumption: Netflix wants to continue"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

Tes d H. - "Here is my first shot at it. Please excuse formatting. To find the maximum depth of the dependencies given a list of nodes, each having a unique string id and a list of subnodes it depends on, you can perform a depth-first search (DFS) to traverse the dependency graph. Here's how you can implement this: Represent the nodes and their dependencies using a dictionary. Perform a DFS on each node to find the maximum depth of the dependencies. Keep track of the maximum depth encountered dur"See full answer

Miron . - "int findRotations(const std::vector& nums) { int start_pos = 0; int end_pos = (int)nums.size() - 1; while ((endpos - startpos) > 1) { int midpoint = startpos + ((endpos - startpos) / 2); if (nums[startpos] > nums[midpoint]) { endpos = midpoint; } else if (nums[midpoint] > nums[endpos]) { startpos = midpoint; } else { return start_pos; } } if ((start_pos < en"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

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

A B. - "Followed Clarifying questions - why this product - competition - Meta's mission - product vision - user segments - prioritize and Why - pain points for prioritized segment - prioritize pain points - list solutions - tradeoff - North star - summerize "See full answer

Anuradha T. - "What‘s the goal of increasing Spotify’s premium subscribers? - To monetize and get more premium subscribers Users: Target users could potentially fall in 3 categories 1) Users who are interested in paying a premium price for great curated playlists 2) Users who are interested in listening to music but not willing to pay a price Targeting #1 Pain points: 1) As a user I wouldn’t want to subscribe to something w/o being listening to the playlists 2) If I do subscribe I would like to receiv"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

Alex S. - "One of the better videos!"See full answer

L B. - "For data distribution drift: DL Divergence or PSI (Population Stability Index) performance: two categories: 1st operational metrics: runtime. 2nd model performance: loss function, MAE (regression), business metrics: overall watch time, DAU, revenue lift etc Outlier: data distribution"See full answer