Recent Google Interview Questions

Anonymous Crayfish - "Clarify Read more what & where? -> Books. Where -> upto candidate Who are we? -> A big tech company Goal -> to help people read more books Assumptions Books which aren't education/work related. Basically books that you read in your free time Read doesn't necessarily mean read text, it means looking at and making sense of what is displayed. and display can be in any form -> text or image or video Customers Kids in age of 5-12 years Teens Adults Elderly We pick kids in age of 5-1"See full answer

Sathi C. - "Being a team player is very important to a small to medium team where each individual play a role to set the culture of collaboration for the team. I will definitely be coaching my report to improve on becoming a team player and trying to influence to understand why it is utterly important for her/his individual growth and success. A ship can not be built by only two hands and any disconnect within the team can prove to be costly."See full answer

Syed I. - "I use a data driven approach by ensuring there is a deep-dive on all alternatives. My approach to tradeoffs is around how to achieve the customer experience needed. I ensure there is an immediate path to green for a solution and a follow-up solution addressing the problem rightly."See full answer

Scott S. - " Project Overview: Real-Time Risk Management System Objective The goal was to develop a real-time risk management system capable of processing and analyzing large volumes of trading data to provide near-instantaneous risk assessments. This system was crucial for enabling traders to make informed decisions while managing their exposure to various market risks in real-time. Complexity Factors 1. \\Data Volume and Velocity\\ \\High Throughput:\\ The system needed to ha"See full answer

Santhosh K. - "As an engineering manager, motivation is key to the success of the team. Here are some ways to motivate the team: Set clear goals: Clearly defined goals help team members understand what they're working towards and give them a sense of purpose. Offer growth opportunities: Providing opportunities for professional development and advancement can increase motivation and job satisfaction. Provide recognition and rewards: Recognising and rewarding team members for their hard work and achieve"See full answer

Adegnika O. - "It was a Finetech product to help people remove credit card limited balance issue. The product is design especially for business man who usually use they credit card to make purchase or big transaction. Problem Credit card have a limit amont of money they can support. it is very difficult to handle situation where people want to make a transaction that goes beyond their supported credit card balance. Having many credit card is not easy to manage and go to trip with a huge amont of money i"See full answer

Deepti D. - "Clarifying questions: Who is launching this service (some options that come to mind are): Google ? If yes, why? Will it be a new product within the Google ecosystem or feature within existing and relevant Google Products (google maps, search) Startup? What is the current status of the startup/service designing it for hotels Uber/Taxi service providers - Trying to diversify their revenue stream/ add new level of engagement? Hospitality companies/hotels? B"See full answer

Araz J. - "Time taken: ~40min. I made up how Gmail Ads work A: Do you mind if I clarify a few things about this question? G: Sure! A: I would like to understand what Gmail ads is and how it works? G: Gmail ads are interactive ads that show in the Promotions and Social tabs of your inbox. A: I know there can be other emails under Promotions or Social tab such as different brands sending promotional emails. G: Gmail ads look different and are labeled as "ads by gmail" A: Great. And how does Gmail ads make"See full answer

James M. - "Break down into: OPEX #Employees x $avg. cost per employee $Overhead (mktg, legal, compliance) Content cost (creator payments) 80% of advert. revenue Elec, cooling, maintenance CAPEX #Data centers Avg servers per data center Avg. cost $ per server"See full answer

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

Ajay U. - "// C++ program to print the count of // subsets with sum equal to the given value X #include using namespace std; // Recursive function to return the count // of subsets with sum equal to the given value int subsetSum(int arr[], int n, int i, int sum, int count) { // The recursion is stopped at N-th level // where all the subsets of the given array // have been checked if (i == n) { // Incrementing the count if sum is // equal to 0 and returning the count if (sum == 0)"See full answer

Chitapuram N. - "Since there is a need for the data to be accurate and consistent without any latency to allocate a spot, can't the data be synchronously synced to replicas after every write as the number of writes are not many per min, instead of read lock phenomena Let me know if i am on a wrong thought here."See full answer

Pratik M. - "Few clarifying questions here Is the competitor a service and does it have other offerings as well? Is it charging $5 for a service or only email? Is it for a specific platform here? Or does it include all platforms? Does the competitor have a huge market share/or is it a small company? Let's assume it's only for email's The structure I would want to layout for knowing what to do next for Gmail would be the following - Mission, Goals, Google's revenue model, Customer Profiles using Gm"See full answer

Shiva S. - "Clarification: Believe no constraints such as for specific market or for specific device, No specific goal , can explore what improve means. Goal: can I assume improve user experience and resolve pain points, and not around monetization So goal could be to improve engagement and higher customer satisfaction with google news as a product, so basically more usage, and lower churn So more DAU Users: Consumers based on how they consume: Deep dive into news reports in a specific area of the"See full answer

Mitchell K. - "How important are referrals? Do you need multiple vs. just one? Does it matter who refers you?"See full answer

Rachita D. - "Start by explaining your understanding of Google Maps. It is a free web/mobile-based feature that allows users to navigate from Point A to B, trip planning locate restaurants, hair salons, other points of interest around a point on the map Businesses use to sponsor advertisements based on Map search string. Clarify what does improvement means, "Improve" is a loaded term - what do we mean by improvement: increased ad revenue, improve the quality of the results, increase downloads, imp"See full answer

Amy M. - "Clarifying questions: Do we want to focus on front end or backend? Front end Do we want to focus on any particular platform? For ex: Site, mobile, apps Interviewer: Desktop Is there anything tools on gmail that you'd like me to focus on? For ex: Meet, Hangouts, Notes Interviewer: Just the main product Are there any specific product buckets that you'd like me to go through? For ex: Sign up flows, login flows, security, product experience, sign out flow, recommend"See full answer

Praful B. - "The company culture is very supportive and collaborative. Googlers are encouraged to be creative and innovative, and there is a lot of freedom to explore new ideas. The work is challenging and rewarding. Googlers have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects that have a real impact on the world. The company is committed to diversity and inclusion. Google is a great place to work for people from all backgrounds and with all different perspectives. I am confident that I would b"See full answer