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  1. 1Cumulative weekly retention (SQL)MediumData· Pinterest
  2. 2Pinterest WAU is up 5% but email notification open rates are down 2%. Figure out why.MediumDataProduct· Pinterest
  3. 3How do you coach and develop your engineering team?MediumBehavioral· Apple, Cointracker
  4. 4Merge intervals plus ML fundamentals probeMediumData· Pinterest
  5. 5Two SQL plus one Python on trust & safety dataMediumData· Pinterest
  6. 6How would you decide ad placement on Pinterest?MediumDataProduct· Pinterest
  7. 7Design a rate limiter.MediumSystem design· Amazon, Google
  8. 8Given a list of strings, find all strings that encode to the same value using a Caesar Cipher. (A Caesar Cipher rotates characters, e.g. in CC3: a->d, b->e, ..., z->c)MediumCoding· Meta, Pinterest
  9. 9Improve Pinterest.Medium· Pinterest
  10. 10As the PM for Spotify's Discover Weekly, what metrics would you track?MediumData· Pinterest
  11. 11Imagine a teleportation machine that can teleport humans for 100 meters. How would you monetize it? What are the use cases?MediumProduct· Google, Pinterest
  12. 12How do you prioritize features for your engineering team?MediumBehavioral· eBay, LinkedIn
  13. 13For a dataset with a million data points, would you use a DNN or KNN? Why?MediumTechnical· Pinterest
  14. 14Explain the differences between nonconvex and convex functions.MediumTechnical· Pinterest
  15. 15Explain the differences between ReLU and Sigmoid.MediumTechnical· Pinterest
  16. 16Explain overfitting.MediumTechnical· Pinterest
  17. 17Design a Facebook app to connect users with handymen.MediumProduct· Meta, Pinterest
  18. 18How would you improve the experience of people interested in travel on Pinterest?MediumProduct· Pinterest
  19. 19Tell me about the most challenging situation you faced in your career and how you handled it.MediumBehavioral· Adobe, Amazon
  20. 20What would be your strategy to improve Google Maps as a product?MediumProduct· Google, Pinterest
  21. 21Tell me something that's not in your resume.MediumBehavioral· HelloFresh, Pinterest
  22. 22Why did Google acquire YouTube?MediumProduct· Pinterest