Google Interview Questions

Anjan M. - "Product - Google Glass Undefined Core Segment & Jobs-to-Be-Done - Google pitched Glass to “everyone” but never clarified a must-have use case for any one group. Improper Category Context - It was positioned as a lifestyle product, but could not justify a use case that a mobile device could not already do. Premium Pricing of a Prototype- Explorer Edition cost 1500 usd. This gap alienated hobbyists and discouraged volume sales. Privacy Backlash- The Always-on camera r"See full answer

Arnab R. - "Trying to find the reason for the low utilization. If it is systematic risk, I will down size the team temporarily. If is due to planning try to tweak details in order to bring 50-50 with a 90 days target time."See full answer

Chelsea F. - "Questions: Clarify: High school = grades 9-12? So roughly ages 15-18 (4 years)? Are we talking about all high-school aged kids, or kids who actually attend HS? Do we count home schoolers? Drop outs? Assumptions: Let's assume we're estimating the number of children in the U.S. who are enrolled in/attend HS Assuming a uniform distribution of the population across ages Approach: U.S. Population = 300m Average lifespan = 80 years 4 years represented by HS age = 5% of the populati"See full answer

Ananya M. - "US population = 330M , 80M across 4 generations population that is physically able to travel, can afford travel, travels for business ranges between 20-60 year olds = 160M calculating maximum demand: long weekends in summer are peak travel times, lets assume 60% of population who are able and can afford travel, do so during long weekend = 0.6x160M lets say 60% of this population choses prefers domestic travel while 40% go international (consider Mexico, Canada, London are international"See full answer

Peter H. - "As a technology leader with enormous power and influence, Google has a significant role to play in global social responsibility. Right now, that means that Google must focus on how humanity can create a sustainable future. If I had unlimited resources, I would focus on the products that enable future mobility in sustainable cities. The success of Gogoro, the Taiwanese scooter manufacturer that has created a swappable battery pack system for small scooters, shows how green tech, consumer visib"See full answer

Arthur Y. - "Clarifying Questions: Clarify scenario My assumed answer: I walk through example flow of family watching YT via Chromecast on parent’s account, then an adult-themed video auto-plays What is goal? My assumed answer: From the prompt, the immediate goal is to prevent inappropriate videos from playing at inappropriate times. At a higher-level, since Google/YT has such a high market penetration % already, the goal is retention of existing users and not having them stop usin"See full answer

Praveen D. - "Grandma! You know how we can look at a picture and know what's in it—like seeing a cat or a dog? Computers can learn to do that too! It's just they use special tricks and math to see and understand pictures or videos. It helps them figure out what's in the pictures, almost like how we do! Almost like giving it eyes to see the world in its own way!"See full answer

Roy C. - "Note: This is my answer that I generated loosely while I was practicing this question. I didnt want to go down the product design framework as this is more of an execution question, so I came up with my own zombified framework to focus more on strategy + execution. Open to feedback on my answer - understand its not the most perfect! Question: How would I launch a digital library product as a Google PM Clarifications: Standalone product? : standalone Region specific: No (up to me) Goa"See full answer

Anjaly J. - "Wing is a subsidiary of Alphabet that provides technology for drone delivery of freight. Current pain points : Noise level when drones are flying Competitive landscape in terms of traffic management system Broadcast network IDs to identify the recipient - privacy concern Considering that privacy concern is a large issue by itself and traffic management system is something I assume Wing would have plans for the future, Idea would be work on the noise level as a recently joined PM. "See full answer

Andrew M. - "DMV is the Department for Motor Vehicles, notorious for long wait times and an overall poor customer experience. I'm not familiar with the different functions that the DMV serves, but from my understanding, people go to the DMV when they want to renew their drivers licenses, so I would like to focus on that for now. Current experience: Long wait time to get drivers license photo taken I am really not familiar with any other services the DMV provides, so I will focus on taking photos. Pain"See full answer

Irina L. - "I’ve named Netflix, Acloset, Youtube music. Focused of YouTube music, increasing social interaction of existing users."See full answer

Musonda C. - "Imagine you have a friend from France that speaks French, and you only speak English. You and your friend want to play a talking game. So, for your friend to understand you and for you to understand what your friend is saying you would need an API between the two of you. The api has its own language called api language. You and your friend will both get a small book that tells you how to speak api language. The api in between you and your friend would allow both of you to speak API language to"See full answer

Srinivas P. - "Assume you have a talking toy that can record voice. Machine learning is this magic that you could use to make this toy really useful for yourself. For a week - talk to this toy about your favorite color, favorite breakfast, what kind of weather you like, so on. The following week you could ask questions like today's weather is so and so - what breakfast should I have? , when should I plan a play date with my friends etc.."See full answer

Praniti S. - "Google VR mission - my understanding is to provide user an immersive experience where your room is the exploration ground/canvas and consumer has limitless possibilities What i know about VR : VR umbrella: Daydream and Cardboard VR devices: Headset/Cardboard/Desktop/Mobile VR product: Google Maps VR/ Carboard VR/Youtube VR/ TiltBrush/ Blocks VR feature: High quality video/ low latency video? Which product are we adding a new feature to? Tilt Brush which device are we implementing the new feat"See full answer

GSWarriors - "Clarification questions: Is it correct to assume that I am an insurance company provide insurance coverage for Waymo? yes Is it safe to assume that we are talking about self-driving cars (no drivers)? yes Several factors are taken into consideration when insurance companies provide insurance quotes (please not that all of these will apply to self-driving cars): M/F Age Years of driving experience Driving record Expected miles driven / year Cost of vehicle If car will be used for c"See full answer

Googlepm 1. - "To scale web applications, one must concentrate on having Shared hosting / Dedicated server CDN (for images servers) Caching techniques Database Sharding Adding/removing webservers on the fly In order to improve the speed of the web applications, certain techniques to look at : Web hosts - Shared hosting / dedicated server CDN Caching techniques Compression techniques Reduced use of plugins, check Java script / CSS files Pre-fetch : If we are aware that th"See full answer