Google Interview Questions

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

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

Sumeet R. - "Got a very different answer than everybody. I seem to be off here. But here goes ..will appreciate feedback Clarifying ..all human population in US and not just working population? Yes US Population: ~300Mn Segmenting Population. 0-19 - 75M 20-40- 75M 41-60 - 75M 60-80- 75M 80-100 - 5 Mn Removing 80 segment as stay at home and not eligible for commuting Revised Table 2-19 - 75M 20-40- 75M 41-60 - 75M 60-80- 75M Out of this employable audience that is has"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

Scott S. - "To recount an experience from my last project . We were at the initial stages of designing a new data platform to enhance our trading analytics capabilities. The conflict arose over the selection of a data processing framework. I was advocating for Apache Spark due to its scalability and performance benefits, especially for handling large volumes of derivatives data. Another senior team member preferred a different technology they had more experience with, which they believed would be easier to"See full answer

DM - "The key approach in this situation is to practice the model of Collaborate, Mentor, Coach, and Care. First, Collaborate with the co-worker to Identify the situation. Listen Listen Listen. understand the issues that the respective co-worker is going through and identify the root cause if it's internal or external. In case the issue is not real or just a misunderstanding or it's the case of employee morale then I would mentor the co-worker and try to motivate him/her. Provide examples (if poss"See full answer

Katie - "Union−Find -We illustrate our basic approach to developing and analyzing algorithms by considering the dynamic connectivity problem. We introduce the union−find data type and consider several implementations (quick find, quick union, weighted quick union, and weighted quick union with path compression). Finally, we apply the union−find data type to the percolation problem from physical chemistry. Analysis of Algorithms -The basis of our approach for analyzing the performance of algorithms is th"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

shg - "(This was not search autocomplete based on prefix matching question.) First of all, please note :- The interviewer is not expecting you to get to the right answer in just 1 hr. These systems have been designed over months and improved over years and its impractical for anyone to expect you to get to the right answer in 1 hr. (There is no one single right answer). At the end, the interviewer (director level person) told me the same. What they are looking for is your thought process, getting from"See full answer

P D. - "Clarifying questions Define relevant? Google should keep progressing in solving customer usecases / increasing revenue and profitability over next 10 yrs Since we are discussing about 10 yr period, can i assume that we need not have any constraints in mind? Yes, do not consider any constraints Just to be clear this is about Google in specific and not about Alphabet and various companies within the group. Yes, let's focus on google Last assumption, can we assume that the overall goal / vi"See full answer

Madhu K. - "Define success for Youtube search I would start with clarifying questions / assumptions, followed by mission of YouTube (YT). I would then list down a few metrics that would be guided by the goal of YouTube and which user actions link to that goal and finally which of them should be used to define success. Clarifying questions: When you say YouTube search, can I assume only text search for now and exclude voice search ? Interviewer: Thats fine. We can stick to text search for now. "See full answer

Surbhi G. - "Goal - Use latest technology to efficiently drive DMV processes User landscape - DMV Employees Public Clarify if we designing for employee productivity, employee shifts, automate internal processes for DMV OR for Public who uses DMV services Lets assume it is for Public. So My prompt and new goal becomes: DMV app to reduce foot traffic to DMV by automating processes online Is that correct to assume? User Journey today: User walkins to DMV -> A User takes online appointment -> Fill sin"See full answer

Rahul J. - "Netflix Solves a problem that's mass market High importance and people actively looking for new solutions Value proposition Variety of content reasonable prices for tier 1, 2 and 3 cities Available on mobile, desktops and tablets Business model: subscription based, Revenue = f { # of users, lifetime of subscription, fee charged to user } --> Should Improve engagement to increase lifetime. User journey: Find content: Search for it / take a recommendation Watch it Give"See full answer

Pm P. - "Since success metrics is a very broad term, to dive deep into WCS - What constitutes success. What is the objective of the company/product, north star/mission of the organization or product? Dependent on the company, market, the industry they play in. As an example: Facebook's mission is now empowerment, bringing the people together and giving them the power to build communities. Every part of its product aligns in one way or other with this goal. Be it, its Web/Mobile platform, Instagram,"See full answer

Unicorn 2. - "Clarifying questions: What is leisure travel? Assuming : Travel for vacation not business What is the vision/mission of the company that we are developing this for (I would like to keep this as an anchor to any users, pain points, solutions that we pick) Assuming : Brand new company - startup. Nothing specific in vision/mission for now. When we say travel user experience -> Do we have an existing product that we want to improve on? Is yes, is there any particular complaint or metric issue rel"See full answer

Jaim - "Clarifying questions : What do you mean by many stakeholders, can you share more details on it. Who all are involved in opinions. General Approach will be : In order to reach somewhere, we need to HAVE one OKR and drive a hypothesis to validate if we are doing reach OKR. Since there are multiple stakeholders: I would create a PRD and conduct discovery sessions to understand their pain points + priorities. We can then use Ansoff Metrix to identify where we want to invest ? "See full answer