Google Interview Questions

Anonymous Porcupine - "Scope Clarification with Interviewer: Is it a standard civil 4-seater helicopter or a Military cargo carrier? Do we wish to calculate the balls in the passenger compartment only or do I consider the gas tank and other spaces in a helicopter? 3.Is the helicopter loaded with seats and passengers or do I assume that there are no seats and passengers/ pilot? Assumptions: The interviewer asked me to make assumptions. Its a standard 4-seater helicopter It is empty but has the standard seat"See full answer

Pm P. - "Clarification: What does "share" imply? is it the action of sharing the app or website ? My assumption here we are not talking about stock market share :P, other factors come into play there. Diving-in: I would like to classify the questions into 2 buckets Internal Do we have data on which platform the shares increases and split up by Mobile and if mobile via app or via browser, split by apple/android, split via desktop, tablet . Essentially source of the shares. What this will t"See full answer

Anonymous Quail - " from typing import List def least_interval(tasks: List[str], n: int) -> int: pass # your code goes here if n == 0: return len(tasks) dictionary = {} total_sum = len(tasks) output = 0 for t in tasks: if t in dictionary: dictionary[t] += 1 else: dictionary[t] = 1 dictLen = len(dictionary) while total_sum > 0: for key in dictionary.keys(): if dictionary[key] > 0: "See full answer

Nitin P. - "public static void sortBinaryArray(int[] array) { int len = array.length; int[] res = new int[len]; int r=len-1; for (int value : array) { if(value==1){ res[r]= 1; r--; } } System.out.println(Arrays.toString(res)); } `"See full answer

Kartikeya N. - "Clarifying questions We are referring to Facebook here within Meta products, correct?: Yes Can we base the CAC as of 2025?: yes Facebook acquires users through multiple channels, are we focussed on any particular channel? : We are looking at an overall CAC for Facebook What all do we want to include in CAC? Can we limit it to the marketing and advertising costs and leave aside technical, infrastructure or people costs?: yes Here’s how I will calculate this. **Customer acquisition c"See full answer

Cameron P. - "Estimate the market size for Google Fi Market size -> total revenue/sales in a market = market share Google Fi -> telecommunication services by google. Only for US market Market size = (1)google fi customers / (2)total customers in the market (2)total customers in the market 300m ppl in the US 0-90 life expectancy Factor out 0-12,80-90 240m ~250m ppl in the US who are using phones and need a telecommunication service (1)google fi customers Version 40% - 110m AT&T 30% - 70m T-Mobil"See full answer

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

Rahul P. - "Providing some bullets to expand on to respond to this question- Inability to adapt to the changes in customer's needs in retail industry Lack of competitive analysis Rigid business model Lack of well defined Vision and Strategy"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

A B. - "i would follow engage/ listen/understand/collaborate/engage/resolve- approach to manage conflicts. I would explain each phase in a project where I face conflict and how I used above approach to resolve the conflict"See full answer

Calyan - "Hangouts 100k feedback gave 3* rating, in 2013. What to do next Clarify: Solving for 2013, should disregard changes made (Allo, Gchat, Gmeet) since then? [yes] Is this on any specific platform - App Store or Play store? [both] Consumer or Enterprise [consumer] Problem framing - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mission: org world info., be helpful. Hangouts role in this mission to help users stay connected, exchange info and content (via messages and calls) Biz/ Prod goals Growth/ acq Install ba"See full answer

Anonymous Koala - "Google mission==>organize world info and make it accessible to user Monetize from Ad revenue, enterprise productivity service, Developers Google glass provides==>smart  virtual screen , hands free voice commands activated glass for for $1000+. Fits in google mission If google is to launch google glass the key metrics of success would be Number of glasses purchase Usage in term of google search, texts, play video, take picture other activities performed Previous pitfalls "See full answer

Guilherme F. - "A much better solution than the one in the article, below: It looks like the ones writing articles here in Javascript do not understand the time/space complexity of javascript methods. shift, splice, sort, etc... In the solution article you have a shift and a sort being done inside a while, that is, the multiplication of Ns. My solution, below, iterates through the list once and then sorts it, separately. It´s O(N+Log(N)) class ListNode { constructor(val = 0, next = null) { th"See full answer

Debajyoti B. - "As far as i know, when we type a web address in the browser- the broswer connects to the DNS server & finds the address of the website we are looking for after finding it, the browser sends an HTTP request message to the server,with a request to send a copy of the website to the user. all of this information is sent using TCP/IP protocol across your internet"See full answer

Tiago R. - "function areSentencesSimilar(sentence1, sentence2, similarPairs) { if (sentence1.length !== sentence2.length) return false; for (let i=0; i (w1 === word1 && !visited.has(w2)) || (w2 === word1 && !visited.has(w1))); if (!edge) { "See full answer