Google Product Manager Interview Questions

Shahnawaz K. - "I am going to assume, the person is 50 years old and uses a basic feature phone. Here is how it goes Local Context: When you come back from morning walk, you are your friends stop at a chai point to rest and have tea, what do you talk about ? (Assume he says everything and anything). Imagine there are no friends but you still want to talk and you want your friends and everyone to listen to your thoughts / rant. Imagine you don’t want to talk but you want only listen to what your frien"See full answer

Patrick K. - "Full travel packages. Flight + hotel + experiences. They have all the data in the world to scrape to see some of the top places to visit in each city or country. Coupled with the ability to find the cheapest flights to make these trips affordable."See full answer

Anuradha T. - "Clarifying questions: What kind of users are we talking about? Internal or external ? (Assumption: External) When was this issue discovered? (Not so long ago) Is this specific to a particular geographical location ? (Answer: No) External: Geography, time ? Internal: Pain points: Technical - latency, lag Engagement - Less engagement available on website , users are bored while waiting for their search results to appear Review - Explore platform options for users to review their experie"See full answer

Andrea M. - "Asked clarifying questions to understand why we want to do this. Said building is too labor intensive and AirBnB has years of experience in this. Said buying a company is probably too expensive and doesn't address why we're doing this to begin with. I said partnering with a travel company might be the best move."See full answer

Karthik M. - "Assumptions & Clarifications Users have access to all Google Workspace applications like Google Drive, Gmail and the same photo editing tool - let us call this tool - Google Photo Editor (GPhoto). Users can share the images like Google Docs - giving people read-only, read-write / edit access Goals Google's vision is to organize the world's information and make it accessible. GPhoto's mission / goal is to organize the world’s photo and make it accessible to others to view, edit or"See full answer

Y C. - "Clarifying questions Financial savviness is it related means Digital wallet Prudent Spending habits Intuitive savings Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful Geographical or any other constraint Product goal - This is in total alignment with Google's mission as it is trying to provide the consumers their financial information and making it useful. Engagement User personas Students Millennials Professionals -"See full answer

Rev - "Clarify: Physical car garage or some app? 1 garage or a chain? Where is it located? (if highway then user seg to be focussed would change) (rn consider a residential area) Objective/ constraints? - majorly revenue i.e. #users * rev/user (acquire more users) Is there some issue and we are trying to address that via features or we just need features to improve the overall user experience? basic idea of garage: Car issue - drop it to garage/ sometimes pickup service - repair time -"See full answer

RockyBalboa - "Clarifying question(s): what constitute a COVID related search? is it more on number of cases by geography, virus strains, vaccine information etc. ? Besides engagement is there anything we should take into account? Which personas are likely to be targeted: Journalists gathering more information for reporting Doctors and SMEs Common crowd with moderate to advanced education on health and safety measures and likely type of at-home entertainment Pharmaceuticals orga"See full answer

Shashank S. - "I recall a frustrating experience I had with a traditional, non-digital alarm clock. As a Product Manager, I'm always thinking about how products can be improved, and this experience stuck with me. It was a few years ago, and I was traveling for work. I had an early flight to catch, and I relied on the alarm clock in my hotel room to wake me up on time. However, the clock was an old, analog model with tiny buttons and a confusing interface. I struggled to set the alarm, and even when I thought I"See full answer

Priya J. - "User groups - Elderly People People with physical disabilities Blind people Hikers The cane required for each group is different. Elderly and People with physical disabilities are using it for support, and hence their cane has to be more stable and static. The cane for blind people is very lightweight because they use it to find any hurdle on their way The cane for hikers is mostly for support but lightweight because they cannot carry heavyweights cane while hiking. Thinking about the blind"See full answer

Danyal R. - "Estimate the number of Instagram posts per day Assumptions: calculating for the US only Assumption for grid photos and not stories Equation Number of Instagram posts / day = users * frequency / 365 Break down components Assumption: instagram has 1 billion active user's across the world, let's assume there's 100 million active users in US But in a day there's likely only 50% of the active users on the app [30%] Casual Users - open the app 3-4 times a week but post once ever"See full answer

Carlos S. - "Clarifications and GoalsTimeline: Three years. Geography: U.S. market. Scope: Google Photos integration with Drive, Gmail, and Pixel devices. Revenue Sources: Storage subscriptions, in-app purchases, and new streams. Google’s Mission & ObjectivesMission: Organize the world’s information and make it accessible and useful. Business Goals:Increase user engagement. Boost adoption of premium tiers. Explore new monetization streams. Landscape AnalysisCompetitors: A"See full answer

Marwan O. - "My company was acquired and I was responsible for planning and managing a transition & integration of custom real-time time-series data and event capture software. I worked with lab scientists (who were running the instruments from which the data would be captured) to understand their unique needs compared to the use cases the software was originally written and deployed for. I wrote proposals for integrating specific components of the software and abandoning others, receiving review and a"See full answer

Sam M. - "The design review has three stages; In-draft, Review and Complete. I consider a design review completed when the problem statement has been clearly addressed via a feature or a solution and signed off on by all the key stakeholders along with engineerings."See full answer

Sahil A. - "Clarifying question: By high-tech, we mean internet enabled refrigerator which uses technology and assists us in our decision making or takes decisions for us Users: Working women Homemakers Bachelors and Spinsters living alone Other family members (Elderly, Kids etc) Prioritized users: Working women, Bachelors and Spinsters living alone Problems: Food left in the refrigerator gets rotten as it goes out of notice I am at the supermarket and I dont know the inven"See full answer

Praful B. - "Define the goal of the experiment. What do you want to test? Are you trying to improve conversion rates, increase engagement, or something else? Identify the variables to test. What are the different options that you want to test? For example, if you are testing different call-to-action buttons, your variables would be the different button text and colors. Set up the experiment. This involves creating two versions of the app or website, one for each variation of the variable that you are testi"See full answer