Recent Google Interview Questions

Marwan O. - "My company was acquired and I was responsible for planning and managing a transition & integration of custom real-time time-series data and event capture software. I worked with lab scientists (who were running the instruments from which the data would be captured) to understand their unique needs compared to the use cases the software was originally written and deployed for. I wrote proposals for integrating specific components of the software and abandoning others, receiving review and a"See full answer

Y C. - "Clarifying questions Financial savviness is it related means Digital wallet Prudent Spending habits Intuitive savings Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful Geographical or any other constraint Product goal - This is in total alignment with Google's mission as it is trying to provide the consumers their financial information and making it useful. Engagement User personas Students Millennials Professionals -"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

Shivastuti K. - "For somebody who needs accessibility accommodation, this doesn't have a transcript so it is not useful to me."See full answer

Charmi S. - "Clarification: Why South Korea and why Google has expanded their yet. I know there are some government security concerns which have bene in place but how is this integration going to expand Is this something like Google Maps itself or is it tailored to particular needs or region Google Mission & Why we want to expand? Google mission is to organize world's information and make it universally available. The Google Map in South Korea aligns with this as it will help people navigate through t"See full answer

Ananya M. - "I am assuming goal is to improve driving experience for seniors and not solve for transportation between point A to B. A in ananya loves road trips and long drives but when ananya is old and grey she misses going on long drives and road trips . goal : user experience user : physical disability hinders them from getting in and out of car seniors have joint and back pains, they can sit at the same position for longer time eye sight is weak for driving low energy to walk to parking and"See full answer

Anonymous Muskox - "Clarification Questions 1) Through offline sales or online sales of the tickets or both? 2) Cinema for movies or theatre play etc? 3) Number or are we calculating the revenue associated with that Overall Formula = (Avg Number of Theatres in US)(Avg Number of Screens per Theatre)(Number of movies play per Screen per day)(Number of Days in a year)(Number of people watched per Screen)(Average Occupancy) "See full answer

Ananya M. - "goal : user experience CUJ for cinema : Part A : deciding to watch a movie read reviews for movies that have released check nearby cinemas that are showing that movie check with friends/family who want to go with you find tickets online at a nearby cinema (if its a hit movie, you better hurry) buy tickets online split price on an app like split wise Part B : physically arriving at the theatre arrive at cinema hall find parking show e-ticket to enter stand i"See full answer

Roopesh N. - "Goal: What product would I build next Who am I? I am Disney's head of technology Focus: Theme parks Geolocation: Pilot in the US and then roll out across the globe Eco-system>>>User>>>Pain points are>>>Solution>>>MVP>>>Launch metrics> Guardrails Eco System Customers Direct Suppliers, vendors to DIS In-Direct suppliers (Hotels, restaurants, etc.) DIS- Service User ( TAM, underserved, Frequency) Customers Families, including Children ( L, L, L) Couples(S,L, M) Si"See full answer

Priya J. - "User groups - Elderly People People with physical disabilities Blind people Hikers The cane required for each group is different. Elderly and People with physical disabilities are using it for support, and hence their cane has to be more stable and static. The cane for blind people is very lightweight because they use it to find any hurdle on their way The cane for hikers is mostly for support but lightweight because they cannot carry heavyweights cane while hiking. Thinking about the blind"See full answer

Prateek S. - "Clarifying questions: Why are we fixing the roads? Is it due to temporary damage or something structural has gone wrong? What is our purpose behind fixing the roads? Increase mobility in an area? Reduce inequality? reduce crime? Assumptions: Roads have had temporary damage due to rain / storm We know the specific roads which are bad and will need to be fixed Want to increase commercial traffic. Want people to visit a specific area which has bad roads and slow moving traffic. W"See full answer

Valentin B. - "Let me first ask some clarification questions / make assumptions: Any specific geographic region? => USA How do we measure bandwith? a. Bandwith is the maximum internet speed required for our google maps servers to support all google maps traffic in the USA. At which point do we measure bandwith? => at the “entrance” of each google server center Do we talk about maximum bandwith required? a. Yes, the maximum BB required to support google maps in the USA (on side of Google) Outline: O"See full answer

Gk K. - " can we use blomfilters to check existing usernames? and if both are creating at a time, like both are choosing some abcd , here system checks whether user with that name exists or not. so while checking , it will add an entry on redis (example) with this name as key and obtain lock using some distributed lock. , it will lock on that name. (like seat booking in bookmyshow) with some TTL value. so this check will happen once user enters his interest username and also while submit .. 2 times che"See full answer

Maddy M. - "This was really cool.."See full answer

Anonymous Raven - "How often do we get 15 min to answer a question? Wondering isn't the expectation to answer this in 3-5 min?"See full answer