Concept Interview Questions

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  • Video answer for 'SQL Stored Procedures'

    "it is really good explanation thanks it is really good explanation thanks"

    Amney M. - "it is really good explanation thanks it is really good explanation thanks"See full answer

    Data Scientist
    Concept
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  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    +10

    "Clarifying questions: Do we want to focus on front end or backend? Front end Do we want to focus on any particular platform? For ex: Site, mobile, apps Interviewer: Desktop Is there anything tools on gmail that you'd like me to focus on? For ex: Meet, Hangouts, Notes Interviewer: Just the main product Are there any specific product buckets that you'd like me to go through? For ex: Sign up flows, login flows, security, product experience, sign out flow, recommend"

    Amy M. - "Clarifying questions: Do we want to focus on front end or backend? Front end Do we want to focus on any particular platform? For ex: Site, mobile, apps Interviewer: Desktop Is there anything tools on gmail that you'd like me to focus on? For ex: Meet, Hangouts, Notes Interviewer: Just the main product Are there any specific product buckets that you'd like me to go through? For ex: Sign up flows, login flows, security, product experience, sign out flow, recommend"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Concept
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  • Google logoAsked at Google 

    "DNNs can learn hierarchical features, with each layer learning progressively more abstract features, and generalizes better. SNNs are better for simplier problems involving smaller datasets and if low latency is required."

    Louie Z. - "DNNs can learn hierarchical features, with each layer learning progressively more abstract features, and generalizes better. SNNs are better for simplier problems involving smaller datasets and if low latency is required."See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Concept
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  • OpenAI logoAsked at OpenAI 
    Video answer for 'How is gradient descent and model optimization used in linear regression?'
    Machine Learning Engineer
    Concept
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  • Goldman Sachs logoAsked at Goldman Sachs 

    "Abstract class A class that can have Abstract methods - without implementations and Concerete Methods i.e with implementation. Can have private, protected and public access modifiers. Supports Single inheritance i.e a class can extend only 1 abstract class Can have constructors Mainly used when sharing common behaviors Interface Class A collection of abstract methods ( can have static and default methods also - onwards of java 8) Public, static, final are the access"

    Sue G. - "Abstract class A class that can have Abstract methods - without implementations and Concerete Methods i.e with implementation. Can have private, protected and public access modifiers. Supports Single inheritance i.e a class can extend only 1 abstract class Can have constructors Mainly used when sharing common behaviors Interface Class A collection of abstract methods ( can have static and default methods also - onwards of java 8) Public, static, final are the access"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Concept
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  • OpenAI logoAsked at OpenAI 
    Video answer for 'How do you select input for modeling if there are features highly correlated with each other?'
    Machine Learning Engineer
    Concept
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  • Microsoft logoAsked at Microsoft 

    "Imagine a blockchain as a magical, unchangeable diary that keeps track of all the candies you share with your friends. Whenever you share a candy, you write it down in this special diary, and your friends also write it down in their diaries. But here's the cool part – all the diaries are connected and can talk to each other! So, when you want to know who has borrowed your candy or if you borrowed candy from someone else, you just check this special diary. It shows you the history of all the can"

    Maedu E. - "Imagine a blockchain as a magical, unchangeable diary that keeps track of all the candies you share with your friends. Whenever you share a candy, you write it down in this special diary, and your friends also write it down in their diaries. But here's the cool part – all the diaries are connected and can talk to each other! So, when you want to know who has borrowed your candy or if you borrowed candy from someone else, you just check this special diary. It shows you the history of all the can"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Concept
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  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 

    "in simple words, linear regression helps in predicting the value whereas logistics regression helps in predicting the binary classification. But lets talk through some example Linear regression model: E-commerce website pricing recommendation engine is built on linear regression model where we do have some variables such as competitor price, internal economics and consumer demand etc when we put this in a supervised learning model, it helps in predicting prices Logistics regression model"

    Anonymous Aardvark - "in simple words, linear regression helps in predicting the value whereas logistics regression helps in predicting the binary classification. But lets talk through some example Linear regression model: E-commerce website pricing recommendation engine is built on linear regression model where we do have some variables such as competitor price, internal economics and consumer demand etc when we put this in a supervised learning model, it helps in predicting prices Logistics regression model"See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Concept
    +1 more
  • Meta (Facebook) logoAsked at Meta (Facebook) 

    "Clarifying questions: Is this a standalone product or a Meta integrated product? Which region is this for? US or another region or global? Is this for a county run library or a more informal group community library? Assumptions: It's a meta integrated product US based system group run community library Let's see if a lending library fits into Meta's company mission to build community and bring people closer together. Yes, a lending library does build community by helping peop"

    Hari S. - "Clarifying questions: Is this a standalone product or a Meta integrated product? Which region is this for? US or another region or global? Is this for a county run library or a more informal group community library? Assumptions: It's a meta integrated product US based system group run community library Let's see if a lending library fits into Meta's company mission to build community and bring people closer together. Yes, a lending library does build community by helping peop"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Concept
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  • Meta (Facebook) logoAsked at Meta (Facebook) 
    Video answer for 'Explain Bayes' theorem.'

    "Is it bad to get the answer a different way? Will they mark that as not knowing Bayes Theorem or just correct as it is an easier way to get the answer? The way I went is to look at what happens when the factory makes 100 light bulbs. Machine A makes 60 of which 3 are faulty, Machine B makes 40 of which 1.2 are faulty. Therefore the pool of faulty lightbulbs is 3/4.2 = 5/7 from machine A and 1.2/4.2 = 3/7 from Machine B."

    Will I. - "Is it bad to get the answer a different way? Will they mark that as not knowing Bayes Theorem or just correct as it is an easier way to get the answer? The way I went is to look at what happens when the factory makes 100 light bulbs. Machine A makes 60 of which 3 are faulty, Machine B makes 40 of which 1.2 are faulty. Therefore the pool of faulty lightbulbs is 3/4.2 = 5/7 from machine A and 1.2/4.2 = 3/7 from Machine B."See full answer

    Data Scientist
    Concept
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  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 

    "1) select avg(session) from table where session> 180 2) select round(sessiontime/300)*300 as sessionbin, count() as sessioncount from table group by round(sessiontime/300)300 order by session_bin 3) SELECT t1.country AS country_a, t2.country AS country_b FROM ( SELECT country, COUNT(*) AS session_count FROM yourtablename GROUP BY country ) AS t1 JOIN ( SELECT country, COUNT(*) AS session_count FROM yourtablename `GROUP BY countr"

    Erjan G. - "1) select avg(session) from table where session> 180 2) select round(sessiontime/300)*300 as sessionbin, count() as sessioncount from table group by round(sessiontime/300)300 order by session_bin 3) SELECT t1.country AS country_a, t2.country AS country_b FROM ( SELECT country, COUNT(*) AS session_count FROM yourtablename GROUP BY country ) AS t1 JOIN ( SELECT country, COUNT(*) AS session_count FROM yourtablename `GROUP BY countr"See full answer

    Data Scientist
    Concept
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  • Microsoft logoAsked at Microsoft 
    Video answer for 'How do you select the value of 'k' in the k-means algorithm?'

    "Picking the value of 'k' can be little tricky. One simple approach would be to start with elbow method. Try different 'k' values and plot them on a graph like an experiment. When the graph starts to look like an elbow, that's a good 'k' to pick! Also keep in mind you may not always have clearly clustered data. The elbow may not be clear and sharp as you expect. Hope this helps."

    Praveen D. - "Picking the value of 'k' can be little tricky. One simple approach would be to start with elbow method. Try different 'k' values and plot them on a graph like an experiment. When the graph starts to look like an elbow, that's a good 'k' to pick! Also keep in mind you may not always have clearly clustered data. The elbow may not be clear and sharp as you expect. Hope this helps."See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Concept
    +1 more
  • Meta (Facebook) logoAsked at Meta (Facebook) 

    "Merge Sort"

    Ankita G. - "Merge Sort"See full answer

    Data Engineer
    Concept
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  • Microsoft logoAsked at Microsoft 
    Video answer for 'How would you use VR to improve education?'

    "I got to play with a VR for the first time a few weeks ago at my friend’s house and I loved it, so this is a really fun question. Clarifying Questions Is this something we are looking to create Microsoft or are we a startup company etc? > Education can refer to elementary, high school, university, or even self-learning (e.g. Udemy). Is there a specific area we want to focus on? << What do y"

    Rohan S. - "I got to play with a VR for the first time a few weeks ago at my friend’s house and I loved it, so this is a really fun question. Clarifying Questions Is this something we are looking to create Microsoft or are we a startup company etc? > Education can refer to elementary, high school, university, or even self-learning (e.g. Udemy). Is there a specific area we want to focus on? << What do y"See full answer

    Concept
    Product Design
  • Deloitte logoAsked at Deloitte 

    "BETWEEN and HAVING clauses in SQL serve different purposes: 1. BETWEEN Clause Used to filter rows based on a range of values. Works with numeric, date, or text values. Can be used with WHERE or HAVING clauses. The range includes both lower and upper bounds. Example: Filtering employees with salaries between 30,000 and 50,000 `SELECT * FROM Employees WHERE salary BETWEEN 30000 AND 50000;` 2. HAVING Clause Used to filter **groups"

    Meenakshi D. - "BETWEEN and HAVING clauses in SQL serve different purposes: 1. BETWEEN Clause Used to filter rows based on a range of values. Works with numeric, date, or text values. Can be used with WHERE or HAVING clauses. The range includes both lower and upper bounds. Example: Filtering employees with salaries between 30,000 and 50,000 `SELECT * FROM Employees WHERE salary BETWEEN 30000 AND 50000;` 2. HAVING Clause Used to filter **groups"See full answer

    Data Scientist
    Concept
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  • "I faltered on this question. I haven't given a PMM interview in a very long time since I moved from marketing to pure product management. I chose DownDog Yoga App as my preferred app, since I use either either their sleep meditations or the yoga app thrice a week. The feature that was introduced was Aerial Yoga (the interviewer made it as a feature) I went with the assumption that Aerial Yoga is something that needs to be driven off-line rather than online - requires studio space, infrastructr"

    Garima B. - "I faltered on this question. I haven't given a PMM interview in a very long time since I moved from marketing to pure product management. I chose DownDog Yoga App as my preferred app, since I use either either their sleep meditations or the yoga app thrice a week. The feature that was introduced was Aerial Yoga (the interviewer made it as a feature) I went with the assumption that Aerial Yoga is something that needs to be driven off-line rather than online - requires studio space, infrastructr"See full answer

    Product Marketing Manager
    Concept
  • "Let's split the experience in four parts: Time between order is placed and order is waiting to be prepped by the shopper. Time between order is prepped by the shopper and ready to be picked by the driver. Time when it's out for delivery. Post delivery experience. Now lets think through what can do wrong? How do we define wrong? A wrong would be anything where a customer has a negative experience. Let's dive into the when things could potentially go wrong. **order is placed and"

    Pree M. - "Let's split the experience in four parts: Time between order is placed and order is waiting to be prepped by the shopper. Time between order is prepped by the shopper and ready to be picked by the driver. Time when it's out for delivery. Post delivery experience. Now lets think through what can do wrong? How do we define wrong? A wrong would be anything where a customer has a negative experience. Let's dive into the when things could potentially go wrong. **order is placed and"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Concept
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    "In details: setting k=1 in KNN makes the model fit very closely to the training data, capturing a lot of the data's noise and leading to a model that may not generalize well to unseen data. This results in a high-variance scenario."

    Taha U. - "In details: setting k=1 in KNN makes the model fit very closely to the training data, capturing a lot of the data's noise and leading to a model that may not generalize well to unseen data. This results in a high-variance scenario."See full answer

    Concept
    Machine Learning
  • Accenture logoAsked at Accenture 

    "NA"

    Gaddipati V. - "NA"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Concept
    +1 more
  • Cruise logoAsked at Cruise 
    Video answer for 'How do autonomous vehicles work?'

    "If this question was for a product manager; I would approach it as I don't really know how actually these vehicles work. I will try to simplify the concept and answer questions like why autonomous vehicles are exists and what is the purpose of them. Autonomous vehicle is a vehicle can do some actions on behalf on a human and as main reason is to increase the safety, so to come up into how they work, I should identify the main actions that human does and prioritize it based on what they may"

    Nouna J. - "If this question was for a product manager; I would approach it as I don't really know how actually these vehicles work. I will try to simplify the concept and answer questions like why autonomous vehicles are exists and what is the purpose of them. Autonomous vehicle is a vehicle can do some actions on behalf on a human and as main reason is to increase the safety, so to come up into how they work, I should identify the main actions that human does and prioritize it based on what they may"See full answer

    Concept
    Technical
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