"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.."
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
"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"
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
"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"
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
"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"
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
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"Clarifying questions like what is the end goal that we are trying to achieve ?
Is it revenue
Improving user experience
Improving current state - load times / find times / web page rendering / images ?
External API consideration
Introduction of a new feature in Google Maps
Branding related ?
Introducing a lite version of Google maps , say for emerging markets ?
Based on the above, calculate :
What are the positives of the algos ?
"
Googlepm 1. - "Clarifying questions like what is the end goal that we are trying to achieve ?
Is it revenue
Improving user experience
Improving current state - load times / find times / web page rendering / images ?
External API consideration
Introduction of a new feature in Google Maps
Branding related ?
Introducing a lite version of Google maps , say for emerging markets ?
Based on the above, calculate :
What are the positives of the algos ?
"See full answer
"Who is the competition ? Apple , Samsung, Huawei, Oneplus
By working on the below -ves:
What are the -ves when compared to the competitors ?
Price : Why would people buy similar features for a higher price when available on a low cost phone ?
Design / Looks : Millennials / Alpha generation go by the looks of the phone.
Funky colors : Pixel have funky colored phones (+ve and -ve)
Performance : One plus performance being better than Pixel
UI : Stock Android vs Custom UI
What"
Anjaly J. - "Who is the competition ? Apple , Samsung, Huawei, Oneplus
By working on the below -ves:
What are the -ves when compared to the competitors ?
Price : Why would people buy similar features for a higher price when available on a low cost phone ?
Design / Looks : Millennials / Alpha generation go by the looks of the phone.
Funky colors : Pixel have funky colored phones (+ve and -ve)
Performance : One plus performance being better than Pixel
UI : Stock Android vs Custom UI
What"See full answer
"Situation - I had 2 projects in hand. 1st - My primary project under my direct line manager, and 2nd - Under a dotted line manager.
I committed to my 2nd project based on my assumptions and planning of the primary project's scope & timelines. For both these projects, I was the key resource. Unfortunately, we got some new findings in my first project, and it happened to be a case where management made an overcommitment to our business without gauging the assumptions correctly. This put pressu"
DM - "Situation - I had 2 projects in hand. 1st - My primary project under my direct line manager, and 2nd - Under a dotted line manager.
I committed to my 2nd project based on my assumptions and planning of the primary project's scope & timelines. For both these projects, I was the key resource. Unfortunately, we got some new findings in my first project, and it happened to be a case where management made an overcommitment to our business without gauging the assumptions correctly. This put pressu"See full answer
"My use of Pinterest is somewhat limited. Pinterest is a social network that enables users to save and share ideas in a visual manner. So whether you are interested in fashion, health, lifestyle, decor, sports, you can learn about those in a visual manner. Am I correct?
Of course, Pinterest provides recommendations for people to follow, makes it easy to save images as pins, categorize into various topics. The source of revenue is advertisements. That’s my understanding. Is there anything else I"
Bg - "My use of Pinterest is somewhat limited. Pinterest is a social network that enables users to save and share ideas in a visual manner. So whether you are interested in fashion, health, lifestyle, decor, sports, you can learn about those in a visual manner. Am I correct?
Of course, Pinterest provides recommendations for people to follow, makes it easy to save images as pins, categorize into various topics. The source of revenue is advertisements. That’s my understanding. Is there anything else I"See full answer
"Back in the day, my grandma was like a walking encyclopedia. Whether we were strolling in the park or chilling at a picnic, she'd point out every pigeon, golden retriever, and grape in sight & help me learn stuff. But let's be real, it took me a few tries to get those correct. And more than once, I confused a golden retriever for a labrador
Computers are just like us. You show them a bunch of examples, they make some mistakes, and then you give them a little feedback in the right direction. Be"
Adarsh R. - "Back in the day, my grandma was like a walking encyclopedia. Whether we were strolling in the park or chilling at a picnic, she'd point out every pigeon, golden retriever, and grape in sight & help me learn stuff. But let's be real, it took me a few tries to get those correct. And more than once, I confused a golden retriever for a labrador
Computers are just like us. You show them a bunch of examples, they make some mistakes, and then you give them a little feedback in the right direction. Be"See full answer
"After clarifying the question, answered in following way:
Defined what is Google Map. Discussed its history and dominant #1 current market position
Aligned with the Google's mission
Listed few users segments and few features for roadmap and discussed technology advancements & need to continue to innovate and differentiate aggressively"
Anonymous Tapir - "After clarifying the question, answered in following way:
Defined what is Google Map. Discussed its history and dominant #1 current market position
Aligned with the Google's mission
Listed few users segments and few features for roadmap and discussed technology advancements & need to continue to innovate and differentiate aggressively"See full answer
"I will start by asking some of the clarifying questions here -
Does the interviewer want me to focus on any specific region or it's a global product -
What's the timeline we are looking over here -
Any specific problem statement that I should be focusing on -
Any specific objective that they want me to drive
Some of these questions will help to get my head straight and align myself with the interviewer.
(2 mins to jot down my thoughts )
Answer -
Problem statement : Will focus on the cha"
Dhirendra S. - "I will start by asking some of the clarifying questions here -
Does the interviewer want me to focus on any specific region or it's a global product -
What's the timeline we are looking over here -
Any specific problem statement that I should be focusing on -
Any specific objective that they want me to drive
Some of these questions will help to get my head straight and align myself with the interviewer.
(2 mins to jot down my thoughts )
Answer -
Problem statement : Will focus on the cha"See full answer
"Clarify -
What is the product ? Autonomous driving capability
Technology as a vehicle to drive man driver capability
What is the current stage of project ? Technology is ready
I will start by understanding the Goal, Intention behind this initiative as I am considering myself new PM joined this team and I have to come up with go to market strategy.
Goal - More users to adopt and build trust with self driving car capability.
Target user persona
End user
Businesses
-Rideshare service
-Food"
Srikanth A. - "Clarify -
What is the product ? Autonomous driving capability
Technology as a vehicle to drive man driver capability
What is the current stage of project ? Technology is ready
I will start by understanding the Goal, Intention behind this initiative as I am considering myself new PM joined this team and I have to come up with go to market strategy.
Goal - More users to adopt and build trust with self driving car capability.
Target user persona
End user
Businesses
-Rideshare service
-Food"See full answer
"Whenever I find resistance to my idea, my general approach is to :
Validate my idea
Identify if it is a political reason or is it a valid engineering tech reason
Assuming it is not political but it is resource/difference of opinions that are causing resistance.
Then I would try to do a quick POC and show a value proposition for the idea to get the buy-in.
One similar situation happened
The situation was that stakeholders were promised a feature that would decrease their number of ticket"
Jaim - "Whenever I find resistance to my idea, my general approach is to :
Validate my idea
Identify if it is a political reason or is it a valid engineering tech reason
Assuming it is not political but it is resource/difference of opinions that are causing resistance.
Then I would try to do a quick POC and show a value proposition for the idea to get the buy-in.
One similar situation happened
The situation was that stakeholders were promised a feature that would decrease their number of ticket"See full answer
"Acquisition:
#DAU, #MAUs
Engagement:
listening duration
#songs liked/ shared/ added to playlists from the recommendation list
#times recommended songs are listened to
Benchmark the above with original metrics (before implementing the change)
"
Rev - "Acquisition:
#DAU, #MAUs
Engagement:
listening duration
#songs liked/ shared/ added to playlists from the recommendation list
#times recommended songs are listened to
Benchmark the above with original metrics (before implementing the change)
"See full answer
"It could make Gmail less accessible to people who cannot afford to pay for it.
It could lead to users switching to other email providers.
It could damage Google's reputation as a company that provides free services."
Praful B. - "It could make Gmail less accessible to people who cannot afford to pay for it.
It could lead to users switching to other email providers.
It could damage Google's reputation as a company that provides free services."See full answer
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