10 Interesting Interview Questions Asked In Top Tech Startups

According to the latest Glassdoor report, Data scientist is the hottest job position in US. The ranking is based on the earning potential, career opportunities and job openings. The median base pay in USA is $116,840. Today we have listed 10 interesting questions asked during job interviews in USA.





Facebook

How many birthday posts occur on Facebook on a given day?

You're about to get on a plane to Seattle. You want to know if you should bring an umbrella. You call 3 random friends of yours who live there and ask each independently if it's raining. Each of your friends has a 2/3 chance of telling you the truth and a 1/3 chance of messing with you by lying. All 3 friends tell you that 'Yes' it is raining. What is the probability that it's actually raining in Seattle?

Uber

What metrics would you use to track whether Uber's strategy of using paid advertising to acquire customers works? How would you then figure out an acceptable cost of customer acquisition?

Netflix

How do you know if one algorithm is better than another?

How would you build and test a metric to compare two users' ranked lists of movie/tv show preferences?

Amazon

How to deal with unbalanced data where the ratio of positive and negative is huge.

Microsoft

Create a function that checks if a word is a palindrome.

There are 6 marbles in a bag. 1 is white. You reach in the bag 100 times. After drawing a marble, it is placed back in the bag. What is the probability of drawing the white marble at least once?

Apple

How do you take millions of users, with 100s of transactions each, among 10,000s of products, and group the users together in a meaningful segments?

Google

There was a question about SQL joins, string parsing in R, some simple machine learning, as well as some general questions about particularly risky or creative things you have done.

Courtesy:-efytimes