Google Interview Questions

Shwetang S. - "Clarifying Qs: Design meaning - UI elements, front end requests and backend system architecture GIFs = standard short animated videos of 1/2 seconds built either using images or videos Make GIFs = generate gifs from images and videos Do we want to build the system for a certain volume of requests? Do you want me to consider the scalability part? I: Assumptions 1,2 & 3 are correct, ignore 3 for now Users: User b/w age 18-45 trying to generate GIFs using images(at least 3)"See full answer

Devendra B. - "As a direct competitor to my favorite product, our mission is to enhance productivity for creative professionals. Targeting small design agencies, our solution offers a streamlined project management platform tailored to their specific needs. Launch feasibility relies on user feedback, ensuring impact and monetization through subscription-based pricing. Success metrics include user engagement and retention rates."See full answer

Rakesh K. - "I would like to understand the reason why the conclusion was made to even have google maps for kids, assumption here is kids are aged 1 to 5. Some clarifying questions Are the kids in this scenario traveling all alone or accompanied by their parents Kids are using google maps to let their parents know the directions (at times parents want to educate kids) Kids are helping others with directions to their destination. The consideration here is that kids would use maps for following s"See full answer

D S. - "Estimate Google ads revenue. Clarifications: Google ads: only includes ads shown on Google search pages. It does not include any other ads such as display advertisement etc. Google makes money everytime a user clicks on an ad. Market - US Monthly / Yearly - Yearly Revenue in $ For 2020 ? - yes So to state the Q again, I have to estimate Google’s annual search ads revenue for 2020. Ads revene =( $ads clicked everyday * avg price per ad ) * 360 $ads clicked every"See full answer

James H. - "I broke the vehicles down by regions in the world. Designed a wireless api interface to sync with a database backend that linked to google maps through another service and api."See full answer

Adib M. - "Clarifying question(s) Is the upcoming deadline an internal milestone or is it an external facing deadline (ie. compliance/ product launch / feature release)? What would be the repercussion/Is there any possibility of moving the deadline (if needed)? Do we know any details on the team member, Jane in terms of how long the sick leave is likely to be? Is it a fever or is it something bigger that could have her out for much longer? Situation: Jane taking sick leave and the project has an upcom"See full answer

Milan W. - "Thank you for the question. I'd like to ask some clarifying questions in order to better understand the scenario. CQs: How many team members are there? 5 What does "high speed" mean? What's the Mbps required? Up to you to determine. Are there any constraints, physical or cost-wise? Please think through them. We want to be cost-effective. What does the current state of the system look like? What are the goals for the project? **We want to enable real-time video chat communicatio"See full answer

Mala R. - "Fitness app - for kids waze - for turists whats app for senior citizens "See full answer

Bini T. - "I understand this is more focused on ML. However, I have a system question. If users allow us to access their location, or they send location via text box, could we use CDNs for the search without hitting our database? We only query the database when we have zero information on location. Other questions: does embedding always guarantee information on location? Do we discharge the user images after we return a prediction? I heard the feedback that we should keep it for future learning. What would"See full answer

Vaidehi P. - "Clarifying questions: Can you please clarify inflight ads? Are you referring to the Ads shown on the screens/TVs available for each seat on an airplane? Ans: Yes. International flights or domestic? Ans: You pick. ( I picked US domestic) Are you targeting any specific airline? Ans: No. All airlines. Any specific type of ads such as banner ads, video ads etc? Ans: Video We can calculate market size in two ways: By calculating number of flights flying per day in the US * seat avai"See full answer

Krishnan S. - "I would start with few clarifying questions for the investigation and diagnosis of the problem. Timing and volume: For how long is the peak surge being noticed? Past few days / weeks / months? Clarify about 'certain times'. Is it weekday Morning (Peak), Morning (off peak), Afternoon, Afternoon (peak), Evening (peak), Evening (off peak) or weekend? Do we info on vehicle type that have the most volume? Cars, trucks, commercial vehicles, etc., Location and convenience of the gas st"See full answer

Judy W. - "Clarifying questions: What is the objective of the GTM strategy? User acquisition? User retention? Who is the target audience of the GTM? What is the period we are looking at? Short term or long term? Assumption: Launched YouTube Shorts in South East Asia, measuring success of the user adoption and retention in one month and six month. Before we proceed, wanted to check whether we have any benchmark performance from past YouTube's GTM targeting creators? Say, Live stream on YouTube? "See full answer

Ven E. - "I saw this question in one of my interviews."See full answer

Aniket A. - "Clarification: Is it consumer facing or business? -- consumer Launch is global or regional? -- global Is this full blown launch or beta release? -- full blown What goal does this app serve? How is it aligned with the company goals? -- AI Chatbot Can you explain the strategic importance of the app? -- gain market share; compete with other players who are already ahead in the market Do we have any data around potential customers/TAM with this app? -- billions of users "See full answer

Anonymous Muskox - "Clarification Questions Understanding of Netflix -> clarification Clarification regarding the meaning of logged into the platform -> not coming back or they are logged out From how long they we been seeing this issue and is this issue gradual? Which demography or geography are we talking about? The metrics which we are tracking are actually working or not? Internal Factors Any infrastructure problem, frequently "App not responding" or frequently auto log out? Any pa"See full answer

Coach - "Great question, give me a moment to collect my thoughts…. When faced with a situation where a product defect is impacting my customers as a product manager my goal would be to roll out a quick & effective enough solution that minimizes the negative impact on users. I would seek available incident information to understand, its blast radius i.e. the impacted users, platforms, duration, if available understand the nature of failure i.e. recoverable vs not, it's root cause and short/long t"See full answer

Atharv S. - "Assumptions / Questions: tech inclinations: AI induced Painpoints: helps me get up early, but no cues for my morning rituals. Goal: Comprehensive morning exp and not limited to just getting up but also aiding in the morining rituals. Get up early and fresh, set the tone for the day. User Segment/cat: Biz: parents Schools. Geo: India? Prod: students: >= 12, 13-18. School, Boarding school kids. Solution: Workflows like clock: Aesthically apealling and more engag"See full answer