Google Product Manager Interview Questions

Ash I. - "Refer https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/good-product-managers-great-shreyas-doshi/"See full answer

Niaz - "Assumption about the teleportation machine: Teleportation is instantaneous like Star Trek The product does not take too much space maybe 6 ft by 6 ft and 10ft high is good enough Teleportation works vertically both above ground and underground as well as going 100 meters horizontally If possible you can combine multiple teleportation machine to repeat teleportation Users groups A product like this can be leveraged for almost everyone but I think I want to focus on users who ha"See full answer

Akshai V. - "Google Assistant is the Voice AI which converts Natural Language to Queries/Instruction , processes it and get the results and again converts it back to Meaningful Results to the User Currently Google Assistant is Integrated in Multiple End Points. Phone Google Home Chrome Cast Google Chrome Books Some of the Use Cases Google Assistant is used is Making Phone Calls/Texting Asking General Queries/Searching for Information Integration with Devices and Turning them O"See full answer

Abhi S. - "CQs Is 10x capacity any specific time or in general Any time of the day , store should be able to handle To confirm, Grocery store objective is to sell day to day grocery and vegetables? Or do we want to include any other products Day to day grocery Why is the foot traffic more than 10x the typical cap. Was the store designed poorly or did the store not predict the foot traffic correctly ? We suddenly become local's favorite We want to design this single store to handle 10X capacity an"See full answer

Shankhadip M. - "My least favorite product is a desktop software solution called Marg, which is used frequently at our family business. Its an inventory, bookkeeping, and accounting software for small businesses in India and integrates with the official government tax portal. The general journey to accomplish any task, say adding a new product type, is very unintuitive and requires someone to be hands-on and familiar with the product to actually do this. Getting there is pure hit and trial. Like most desktop sof"See full answer

Dhruv M. - "During my internship at Inspira Analytics, our intern team had worked for two weeks on a client presentation for a new data dashboard. Unfortunately, during the final review, the manager pointed out several major flaws in our analysis and asked us to redo the entire structure. The feedback was blunt, and the team felt discouraged, questioning whether our efforts were even valued. As the informal team lead, I felt responsible for helping lift the team’s morale and refocus everyone so we could del"See full answer

Glados - "Strategy of 15 minute delivery apps. I will discuss what delivery apps are, what is their current business model, examples of some delivery apps, any market metrics/share, opportunity, how 15-minute delivery apps fit in, challenges/opps, what's next, takeaways. Clarifying questions Are we focused on North America? Any other geo? Delivery apps -> Assumed to be food/grocery/alcohol delivery not packages (Amazon)? Assumed delivery apps for end-consumers not large businesses? Delivery apps o"See full answer

Amparo L. - "My favorite app on my phone is Youtube because that way I could watch iCarly videos for free."See full answer

Nr 9. - "Assumptions: The question is for a PM working for a refrigerator startup company and for a domestic refrigerator (not industrial). The first model comes in the most commonly used form factor with fridge/freezer split, and it has standard cooling specifications. Target market is the US. The startup is for profit. Product goal: To make interacting with refrigerator easy, seamless and pleasurable for the blind. Target users and channel partners: Fully blind people between the ages o"See full answer

Manas M. - "Since Experimentation is a Broad Term I would like to ask a couple of Clarifying questions What kind of Experimentation User Behavior with newly introduced Beta features AI/Image learning Based Experimentation to test out trial features Something else API based experimentation for user/Third-party experiments,with APIs for new features exposed(this has a lot of potential where devs of apps etc can integrate new experimentation features in their apps with minima"See full answer

Surbhi G. - "Deep Learning is a part of Artificial Intelligence, it's like teaching the machine to think and make decisions on its own. It's like how we teach a child the concept of an apple - it's round, red, has a stem on top. We show them multiple pictures of apples and then they understand and can recognize an apple in future. Similarly, we feed lots of data to the machine, and slowly, it starts learning from that data, and can then make relevant predictions or decisions based on what it has learnt. A co"See full answer

Anonymous Sparrow - "Clarifying question: board meetings have varying degrees of formality, usually dependent on the size of the company and whether it's publicly-listed or still private. Is there a particular type of board meetings you'd like me to focus on? (Assume interviewer responds with: why don't you design something that's flexible to be used for any type of board meeting and any type of company) Sounds good, I'll leverage my own experience and understandings on how board meetings are run and problems to so"See full answer

S G. - "If it's a product end to end, then there's a lot to say. If it's just a feature on top of a product then I will focus on the complexity and how I break complex tasks into small milestones to partner with XFN teams to nail it. Focus on situation, task, actions and results"See full answer