Recent Google Interview Questions

Chelsea F. - "Questions: Are these bikes for personal or commercial use? Or both? For commuting, or should we also include recreational bikes (e.g. mountain bikes?) Should we include stationary exercise bikes, or only those used outside? E-bikes and motorcycles? Are we counting children, or just adults? Should we factor in whether the individual has purchasing power to purchase a new bike? What about renting a bike? Assumptions: Assuming we are sizing the market for personal commuter bicycles f"See full answer

Julien C. - "👇 Your feedback is very much appreciated 👇 Clarifying Questions Bookshelf: how is this bookshelf going to be used? at home? in a library? Elderly People: do we have more precisions on this elderly population? are they sick?disabled? [Interviewer: this bookshelf will be for home purposes. You'll have to specify.] Here's what we gonna do: Users & Pain Points: let's try to better understand who we are designing this bookshelf for Solutions: we'll brainstorm a few solutions and"See full answer

Abdurhman M. - "If you effectively listen and understand their point of view, then take action to address the issue quickly. Don't let too much time slip between the conflict and the resolution. If resolving the concern will take more time, communicate the current status and next steps with the stakeholder."See full answer

Sadhana U. - "Know your audience Understand who the end user is and their role within the organization. Adapt technical lingo to lingo that can be understood by the end user. Diagrams of functions with less dense text is helpful for non-technical users. If it presents like a Manual, that's a turnoff. If it presents like a Guide, non-technical people can follow it. Simplify the problem By simplifying the problem you can explain it to your client in her/his own words. Try to use examples from the client'"See full answer

Praful B. - "Set clear goals- What do you want to achieve by learning this new technology? Are you trying to build a specific project, or are you just interested in learning more about it? Having clear goals will help you stay motivated and focused. Find a good learning resource There are many different ways to learn a new technology. You can take online courses, read books, or watch tutorials. Find a resource that fits your learning style and budget. Start with the basics- Don't try to"See full answer

Pramod V. - "Referring to https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/2022/03/23/15-strategies-for-balancing-competing-stakeholder-priorities/?sh=7c82aa68262f Understand the conflicting priorities and align it with the goal/ objectives and the company mission. Start with the Least Common Denominator between the conflicting priorities to come to a commonality and start from there to objectively approach the next imp priority Always keep communication on and be transparent with 'equality' an"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

Hamilton D. - "no"See full answer

Anonymous Pheasant - "Assumptions I'm making: Primary user - Highly trained astronauts Secondary user - Wealthy ISS visitors Coffee blend/mix/beans will be transported to the station along with other foods already being taken there on a regular cadence Things to consider/what we kinda already know: Different gradational pull in space which may affect the production process of the coffee Smell of the coffee and how that will affect the lifestyle of those on board **What are we trying to achieve with this des"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

Anonymous Reindeer - "Is Google partnering with Uber? Driverless cars - Waymo? Why not Waymo One app? Which regions? Only for children? How about parents with younger children? Is this a replacement of a school bus? Only school or everywhere else? Any other place we need Parents with them? Vision: Organize world’s information so everyone and anyone globally should be able to use that information to get insights, make decisions and even create solutions. Goals: Make transportation easier and risk-"See full answer

Sourabh G. - "Functional Requirement Monitor health, metrics Alert in case of failure/anomaly Visualize the live health Analyse machines on periodic basis Non Functional Should not exert load on machines low latency Highly scalable Logs/Metrics Gathering push - machine gather and send to system and low priority background thread along with batching pull - heart beat check (for offline machines) Processing Real time streaming using Kafka/kinesis + Flink TimeSeries database for stor"See full answer

Vijay P. - "Explained in STAR format one of the project situation where I had to collect data points by deploying a minimum viable product due to unclear business requirements/dynamic nature of business. Emphasized on exact data points and how they strategically used to iteratively deploy improved version of product."See full answer