Interview Questions

Exponent - "This is a pretty straightforward Improve a Product question. Let's first go over the Improve a Product formula: Ask clarifying questions Identify users, behaviors, and pain points State product goal Brainstorm small improvements Brainstorm bolder improvements Measure success Summarize Now, let's begin! Ask clarifying questions Before we begin listing off recommendations, it's important you ask questions to ensure you and the interviewe"See full answer

Hmj V. - "Designed and framework to conduct risk and control assessment of applications that are prone to fraud risk and designed a target roadmap of overarching controls that further mitigates the risk. I explained how I took incharge of coming up with the framework for the assessment and held sessions. Role played with my team to think all the use cases possible and explained the accomplishments and takeaways."See full answer

Jessica A. - "Clarifying Qs: Question: Would this be a standalone platform, or be integrated into the existing LinkedIn web application and mobile applications? Answer: Integrated into the existing LinkedIn web application and mobile applications. Question: What are the goals of a video conferencing platform for LinkedIn? Answer: You decide. Let's think about LinkedIn's mission statement, which is to connect the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful. LinkedIn's co"See full answer

Tony A. - "Get alignment with interviewer on how Gen AI works, then talk about the automotive space with value chain analysis on high level: 1. Design the automobile 2. Source components 3 assemble 4. Market 5. sell to customer 6 vehicle operation and maintenance. Competition: Hyper competitive industry with ~10 big manufacturers in the world. Trends: EV, Self-driving Potential Goals for the Automotive company Gen AI use case: Gain market share by offering Gen AI driven value to its customers Bi"See full answer

Gunjali D. - "Clarifying question: By podcast, we mean a series of digital audio generally available on the internet in the form of monologue or interview. Do we need to integrate it with Facebook or design a separate product? --> Separate Product not related to Facebook Mobile/web application --> Any Constraints? --> No Goal? --> To design a dedicated app to recommend podcasts in order to increase user satisfaction Users: Power Users: Who regularly listens to podcasts and keep detailed information on various"See full answer

Arshad P. - "Schema is wrong - id from product is mapped to id from transactions, id from product should point to product_id in transcations table"See full answer

Sneha D. - "Design a university voting app"See full answer

Anubhav A. - "Clarifying question: We are just interested in facebook's ad rev and not other meta products We are looking at the rev coming per year globally formula = (avg. ads shown per min on fb products) x (avg. time spent per user per day in mins) x (avg. rev that fb makes per view) x (DAU) x 365 assumption all kind of ads give the same rev per view to fb all kind of geographies give the same rev per view to fb avg. ads shown per min -> user can scroll upto 20 posts easily in a min, lets"See full answer

Henil S. - "Clarifying Questions Goal - What is the goal for launching a new recommendation algorithm? (Assume an increase in user engagement) User Persona Using a recommendation system to explore new artists/songs in the same genre Using a recommendation system to explore new genres of songs Using a recommendation system to explore to format of content(Podcasts, Comedy, Stories) Metrics to look at to analyze if we need a new algorithm or not. Metrics Number of songs listened to"See full answer

Exponent - "This type of question is a Technical problem. Although you will not need to actually code the feature, it's important to understand basic technical concepts. Being able to cover these concisely with clarity shows you're an effective communicator. Here, we'll go over the broad technical steps needed to implement a basic reactions feature on Facebook. Briefly, the steps required are the following: Migrate the database to support reactions Write API code to be able to react to a post, and"See full answer

Raunak K. - "Define Groups: Platform where users ( organizers and members) with shared interests can come together and express their thoughts and opinions. Meta's mission: To bring ppl closer together by giving them access to tools and technology. Groups Mission alignment: Gives Organizers and members to come closer together over shared interests and build community. Users : Organizers ( create a group-> invite people on the platform --> can accept or deny a member to the group --> Intera"See full answer

Aneesha K. - "Test case is wrong. It expects to sort in asc order of month_year. -- Write your query here SELECT strftime('%Y-%m', createdat) AS monthyear, COUNT(DISTINCT userid) AS numcustomers, COUNT(t.id) AS num_orders, SUM(price * quantity) AS order_amt FROM transactions t INNER JOIN products p ON t.product_id = p.id GROUP BY month_year ORDER BY month_year ; "See full answer

Jaya S. - "Understood the problem statement by confirming details with interviewer. Approached by listing down all the basic features being provided by the platform. Platform -> Organizations can register themselves. One org can have more than one recruiters. Recruiters create jobs on the org portal. Candidate can apply to the jobs. Recruiters can accept and reject the applications. Categorized 4 parent tables by taking hints in between. The tables were USER -> ID, Name, Phone No, mail ID, Profile Des.("See full answer

Hamilton D. - "no"See full answer

Arthur Y. - "Clarifying questions: Clarify what Facebook Lite is Assumed answer: It’s a slimmed down version of mobile FB app optimized for slower connections and uses less data than the primary mobile FB app by not offering features like videos and high resolution photos. It is only available on Android and primarily built by FB to the developing world can have access to FB. What is meant by “opens are down”? Assumed answer: The total amount of opens of the app on Android devices"See full answer