Google Interview Questions

John S. - "I have no idea if this would qualify, but I took a different, rather singular approach. Curious and gracious in advance for any and all feedback. My main question is whether this response goes into enough depth with regards to all the content types that Google Map stores, as I chose to focus uniquely on image storage (but am sure to state that clearly before I began): Clarifying questions: global map or US/sectional map? Assume global storage on a single end-user device? Yes consider co"See full answer

Ana A. - "Amazon: Mission: to be Earth's most customer-centric company Insight: Quick delivery and Great Customer Care are the key value prep of AP. Vision: To be earth's most customer-centric company; to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online. Strengths: Personalization Wide User Base + Wide Seller Base Own delivery fleet (planes, trucks etc) How they make Money: Sellers Commission "See full answer

Priyansh J. - "By increasing the number of paid users, I assume we mean that we want to increase the % of DAUs who pay for YT Music. First, we need to understand the Youtube Music play here. Youtube Music was carved out of Youtube because Spotify and Apple Music were getting popular. Users were listening to music on Spotify instead of on Youtube, threatening ad revenue for Youtube. Therefore, Youtube Music was born as a standalone app, where users could listen to the music ad free from anywhere anytime. In"See full answer

Saurao D. - "How many shampoo bottles are sold in the US annually? Assumption: Shampoo for both male and female consumers Population of US (330Mn) Considering 50:50 Urban Rural breakdown Urban: 165Mn Rural: 165Mn Considering only 10% of Rural consumers will be using shampoo, which gives 16.5Mn people Urban: 165Mn Considering 50:50 Male Female breakdown Male: 82.5Mn Male consumers using shampoo: 60% = 49.5Mn Male consumers not using shampoo: 40% = 33Mn Female: 82.5Mn Female consumers using shampoo: 80%"See full answer

Christopher K. - "Background Context I'm a PM at a venture-backed SaaS in the legal tech space. We provide end-to-end contract management experience for our customers with the following features: Upload - Contracts signed in DocuSign, etc. automatically uploaded to our system through API integrations. Data Extraction - Contract terms such as payment terms and key dates are automatically OCRed and extracted using ML. Analytics - Contract terms are searchable, filter, and customize for reporting. Work"See full answer

Shikha S. - "Binary serach on E range"See full answer

Bg - "Clarifying question: Am I the first one to notice the fire, or there are people already on it? Extent and source of fire - I am assuming it's localized and I am inside the data center, safe so far. Response: It is an emergency. I will do and coordinate the people to do the following in parallel, if I am the first one to know. Get immediate attention of folks in the data center. Get someone and many people to call 911 and security. Coordinate to have people in need evacuated. Turn off th"See full answer

Anonymous Krill - "Clarify the question. Any specific system? Will study the related systems in the environment. Will define the goal, attributes of the system, stakeholders expectations, problems this system is going to address in case these things don't exist already. With the above two steps, I Will come up with a draft of the System KPI. Will run it with leadership, stakeholders and will incorporate feedback. In parallel, will come up with quantification on these performance factors. Fina"See full answer

Namu - "Provided an example from my work history where I asked to move the Go-live date to prevent launch date failure."See full answer

Adam M. - "This is a great question! If you don't mind, I'd love to list 3 strengths and weaknesses then dive a little deeper on one of each of them. I think my three greatest strengths are: Empathy Openness to feedback Drive And three weaknesses I have been working to strengthen are: Sometimes my desire to achieve can put me at risk of overcommitting Communicating status to the right stakeholders at the appropriate time Creating detailed and strategic lists of priorities so I can meet th"See full answer

Harshita G. - "Is the "idea" I'm trying to sell something new or built off an existing service/product we offer? Interviewer: Let's assume new. Assuming it's a proper sit-down meeting with senior management to go over the proposal, here is what the slide deck would contain. Introduction/Description of the problem I'm trying to solve: Before proposing a solution, it is important to first identify the problem we're trying to solve. This section would contain the description of the problem/pain poi"See full answer

Anonymous Deer - "This interviewee had a decent framework but the specifics weren't impressive. I wouldn't post this as an example and would appreciate if you could replace this video."See full answer

Shashikant A. - "I followed STAR format"See full answer

Dev S. - "Since you have indicated that the drop has been from the past few days and it is the sales drop. Assumption 1: It is not a gradual decrease and something that has been seen in the last few days. My assumption is the e-commerce site is a google store site where google sells all the products. At a very High-level the decline in sales could be caused by customers buying less on the site, customer churn, or decline in new customers, higher cart abandonment rate, checkout process. I would struc"See full answer

Umang S. - "Before diving into answering this, I would like to ask some clarifying questions - High Level - What is the mission, goal, target for this year for WhatsApp? Assumption answer - 10X growth in users Do we have any road map where we can see it with more details? Yes we wish, it is kind of all over the place Do you know how far we have come from the start of the year to achieve that target? Yeah we have done some progress but not much Which quarter are we in? 1"See full answer

Venkateswara reddy K. - "Form what I know I would state the following two points: Only 20% of google's $180B revenue comes from non-ad revenue sources. Google Cloud is a big part of Google's revenue diversification efforts. Google cloud at $13B is still under 10% of total revenue. Google cloud is at position 3 compared after Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure. Typically only top 2 platforms take majority of stake in a lot of businesses. Google Cloud's Goal: Become one of the top two Cloud platforms in the world by deep"See full answer

Amishr - "For a mature product, I would do the following - Review the list of backlog items Meet with stakeholders and business owners to verify the relevance (are they still valid? esp. for new feature request) Break down the backlog list by a. Product improvements b. New features c. Operational Resiliency Do a 70-30 split with New features+Product Imp =70%, Resiliency =30% Prioritize by impact/scale and effort (team's capacity) by quarter Revisit Quarterly For a new product - Start"See full answer

Vivan B. - "Feedback would much appreciated as I have not practiced many product strategy questions Clarifying questions Can we assume this is the first time Google has entered the elevator market? Or are there prior elevators to this one? Let's assume first time Is this a large elevator for industrial use like heavy goods/freight etc. or is it an elevator for apartment blocks and commercial premises? Let's assume passenger elevator Is there a geography for this launch? Let's assume the US"See full answer

Graig - "Do any one know how to build trie using IP address?"See full answer