Interview Questions

Manaswini D. - "Something not mentioned in my resume is my hobbies. I have a strong interest in analyzing situations, which I enjoy as a mental exercise. I'm also skilled at painting and have a passion for reading books, which helps me broaden my perspective."See full answer

Parag L. - "I was in my early days of leadership and strategy. In Marriott when a decision was made by C suite to buy products as wrapper over cloud providers I was surprised and based on my limited information and knowledge posted a question to Chief technology officer as why it won't be a good strategy to directly use Native offering from AWS. The reason enlightened me and gave new a new thought process that being such a large enterprise that has presence in 200+ countries across globe we may have challen"See full answer

Ds S. - "Initially I asked clarifying questions like whether the tree can be empty or not and asked the interviewer to explain what is meant by left view and the explanation for the sample inputs. Then I came up with the level order traversal approach where we visit each level in the binary tree at once using a queue and at each level print the value of the first node. Interviewer seemed satisfied with the approach and asked me to code it up. Finally gave the time and space complexity of the solution."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

Googlepm 1. - "Clarifying questions like what is the end goal that we are trying to achieve ? Is it revenue Improving user experience Improving current state - load times / find times / web page rendering / images ? External API consideration Introduction of a new feature in Google Maps Branding related ? Introducing a lite version of Google maps , say for emerging markets ? Based on the above, calculate : What are the positives of the algos ? "See full answer

Anjaly J. - "Who is the competition ? Apple , Samsung, Huawei, Oneplus By working on the below -ves: What are the -ves when compared to the competitors ? Price : Why would people buy similar features for a higher price when available on a low cost phone ? Design / Looks : Millennials / Alpha generation go by the looks of the phone. Funky colors : Pixel have funky colored phones (+ve and -ve) Performance : One plus performance being better than Pixel UI : Stock Android vs Custom UI What"See full answer

Exponent - "This is another Diagnosis problem. To answer this question, we suggest you use our framework (along with the TROPIC method) to be as thorough as possible. The framework is as follows: Ask clarifying questions List potential high level reasons Gather Context (TROPIC)Time Region Other features / products (internal) Platform Industry / Competition Cannibalization Establish a theory of probable cause Test theories Propose solutions Summarize "See full answer

Eshaa D. - "Clarifying Question: When you say user growth do you have in mind new user acquisition or also talk about user retention/engagement? Assuming New User acquisition is the main referral goal I will pick this for my answer. Netflix is a subscription-based video-on-demand service, available globally on mobile, web or Living room TV, offering a high-quality viewing experience to satisfy consumers' digital entertainment desires. User groups: I think of Netflix's large user base across three lenses: "See full answer

Aditya G. - "We would like the interviewer to call out bad interviews too. I understand that these guest interviewees are spending their time for Exponent and are probably compensated. Exponent's customers are paying members and they need to know that bad answers are called out as bad answers and why. Telling everyone they are awesome at the end of the PM interview doesn't send the right message to paying subscribers who are spending valuable time training for interviews."See full answer

Wizzy B. - "URL> DNS over UDP> IP address > TCP handshake > HTTP(SSL handshake) req, responses, websites architectures for any query DB, servers."See full answer

Tomer B. - "Clarify What do we mean by memorialize? Are we aiming to launch a physical or software product? What is our goal with this product? Are there specific types of pets we have in mind? Assumption Memorialize means to remind ourselves about our loved pets who passed away. We would like to launch a software product. The goal is to help users cope with the lose of their beloved pets. We also focus on house pets, keeping it for dogs and cats as the biggest market for pets. User"See full answer