Drop every guesstimate you got asked in an interview. PS- have an interview tomorrow, I know they will ask for guesstimates in the interview.

15mo ago

AITookMyJob

Startup15mo

No. of people doing X at any given Y time of the day

Crazyguy145

Student15mo

Ye kya h bc

AITookMyJob

Startup15mo

No. of people cooking maggi in the evening etc.

X = cooking maggi Y = evening

Was asked at a startup

Baldev

Stealth15mo

Size of coffee market in India in early 00s, number of emails sent by avg MBB employee in a year

Elon_Musk

X.com15mo

The email is hard to guess. Anywhere between 3-12 per day.

Baldev

Stealth15mo

I mean yeah, you can never really get to the right answer, they’re simply evaluating your approach. My approach - avg time spent per mail and then using time available in a day to get the avg email sent per day, then added a few caveats here and there for brownie points