Interview Questions

Scott S. - "Looking back on my most recent project, which involved developing a real-time market data processing platform in the derivatives trading function , there are a few things I would have done differently to improve the process and outcomes. Here’s a reflection on those aspects: 1. \\Enhanced Initial Stakeholder Engagement\\ What Happened: While we did conduct stakeholder meetings at the beginning of the project, some specific requirements and expectations emerged later in the process,"See full answer

Jaim - "Whenever I find resistance to my idea, my general approach is to : Validate my idea Identify if it is a political reason or is it a valid engineering tech reason Assuming it is not political but it is resource/difference of opinions that are causing resistance. Then I would try to do a quick POC and show a value proposition for the idea to get the buy-in. One similar situation happened The situation was that stakeholders were promised a feature that would decrease their number of ticket"See full answer

Sabrina S. - "Clarification of question So we are trying to find the main metrics I would track to ensure the success of the product, correct? Is there something specific, like a specific feature you want to concentrate on or just overall the general product? Definition of product Google Podcast is a web based app that collects podcasts all over the internet and presents it within the app for listeners to choose. Google crawls websites looking for new podcasts but also podcast streamers add new episo"See full answer

Priyal S. - "Clarifying questions: By no online presence, do you mean just no website for order or do you mean no searches showing up on Google/Bing as users are looking for supermarkets. Possibilities of declining revenue: For every product, i.e pantry, vegetables and fruits, are our prices much higher than our competitors? Are our competitors getting products from suppliers at a lower rate? Are we exhausting our economies of scale well? What % of people are shopping online for groceries? Are"See full answer

Oluwaseun F. - "Too Technical and too serious. Show personality, they do not put on videos most times, so you won't see them, but they are watching you."See full answer

Srijita P. - "Clarification question: How many subscription plans are offered by Tinder ? If there is more than one subscription plan, then we need to ask is the fluctuation happening across all plans or in a particular one ? Assumption: Let's say lower priced subscription plan is showing the most fluctuation and there are only two types of plans In this subscription plan which age group is showing the most fluctuation (18-24,25-30, 30+ etc) ? Is there any seasonality trend observed (eg: placemen"See full answer

Swaroop M. - "Formulate a draft format of idea, open to feedback, communicate your progress"See full answer

Graig - "Reflect leadership quality in software engineering team"See full answer

Alvaro R. - "bool isValidBST(TreeNode* root, long min = LONGMIN, long max = LONGMAX){ if (root == NULL) return true; if (root->val val >= max) return false; return isValidBST(root->left, min, root->val) && isValidBST(root->right, root->val, max); } `"See full answer

Varun - "Clarify question and state assumptions: Streetview from my understanding is compiled by a streetview car going out and taking multiple photos and then Google stitches this together to give us streetview. I'm only going to look at the streetview outdoor experience, I know for e.g Google also has full views of some businesses, malls, museums etc so for the purposes of this I'm not going to calculate this. For the purposes of this is it OK if we say how much storage required to store streetview"See full answer

Saket S. - "Project Schedule is a living document which is prepared based on inputs from the entire team including product, engineering, finance, sales, marketing, legal etc. It is owned by Project/Program Manager but it reflects progress of the whole team. Inputs required for the development of schedule includes project charter, list of stakeholders, project scope, WBS, freeze calendar, vendor SOWs etc. I will use the following approach for schedule development: Copy Milestone level plan from Project"See full answer

Ugo C. - "function countRotations(arr, low, high) { if (high low && arr[mid] arr[mid]) { return countRotations(arr, low, mid - 1); } return countRotations(arr, mid + 1, high); } "See full answer

Anonymous Reindeer - "Clarifying Questions: Is it a chain of supermarkets? Or just an individual market? Is the revenue overall or just from one store? What are the reasons for the revenue growth? Pandemic? New buildings around? Other? What does the supermarket sell? Anything specialized? Local goods? Is there an app/website available to order stuff? 10,000 - 50,000 Vision: Be the most customer centric store Goals: Able to reach out to as many users as they can. Increase the user base while keeping th"See full answer