Google Interview Questions

Piya B. - "You are planning to start a grocery store. How many manual checkout and automated checkout aisles would you have? Clarify: Is this in an urban or a rural city ? For instance is this for NY, where population is 8m Densely populated? Not a franchise of walmart.or. A big brand Which means no restrictions? Approach This will definitely depend on my budget but also the target segment . For instance, for an older population, self checkout may not be very popular. Hence, I will be making some sweepi"See full answer

slouchingtowardssv - "Clarify the problem / make assumptions: What are we defining as misleading? For this problem, any video that contains information countering accepted scientific/research-driven results What is meant by fix? Does that entail removing said videos? For this problem, I want to see if we can minimize the amount of videos pulled from YouTube Intro to the product: YouTube is a video-sharing platform that was acquired by Google in 2006 YouTube's original mission statement:"See full answer

Cameron P. - "Clarifying Questions: US or globally? globally Consumer or business use? consumer Assumptions: Assuming we are interested in frequent users, let's say someone who uses Google Drive at least 5 times a year. Discluding anyone who has used Google Drive less than 4 times per year. Assuming Google Drive is a place to store, share, and collaborate on files and folders from your mobile device, tablet, or computer. Recap: We would like to estimate the number of users of Google Drive"See full answer

Namrata L. - "Clarifying questions What do you mean by app for gardening? E-commerce kind of app for buying selling or tutorial or something else? Up to me. What is the goal of this app? Getting users and increasing engagement Who are we? startup What is the time frame we are looking at for this? No constraints Where are we looking to implement this? Start with India. User segments Type: Commercial, Personal Plant Parent: New, medium, Old Profession: Student, Working Professional, Stay"See full answer

Abdurhman M. - "Solving current problems by considering what would have happened if the past had been slightly different."See full answer

Vinit K. - "I have often experienced my manager believing in something while I don't. The situation largely arises when the manager is under pressure of taking decision and has not spent enough time on researching about the decision. While I on the other hand have always spent time learning about issues right since we feel this is going to be a challenge in the near future. In such scenarios, I would believe something else base on my research while the manager would have some other belief based on his exper"See full answer

Sunny G. - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_transformation"See full answer

Adib M. - "impact analysis - Facilitate triage with engg and PM to understand the impact to system/ users. and Severity of defect. Work with Engg to estimate the fix and turnaround time to dev/test/release. will this delay the launch? If no, great. Launch as planned. If yes, call stakeholder meeting informing about critical defect, impact to system/users, estimate to fix and likely delay. Recommend delay launch due to criticality/severity of defect. Once get their buy in, present plan to fix, test and"See full answer

Product V. - "QQ  Design a product to help people feel more rested Clarifying Questions What is the definition of being rested - Am I the PM for google or any other tech startup - tech startup Does this help people meditate or sleep - Say sleep well and relax What is the specific goal of the product - Refresh people Is this mobile or any other medium - it is mobile based offering Any specific country - USA Any other constraints - No other constraints **How th"See full answer

Ash K. - "Below is the step by step approach I would take: Identify potential risks: Firstly, I thoroughly analyze the project and identify potential risks that could impact its success. This involves reviewing project documentation, conducting stakeholder interviews, and seeking input from team members who have expertise in different areas. Assess the impact and likelihood: I evaluate each identified risk by assessing its potential impact on the project objectives and determining the likelihood of"See full answer

Harsh S. - "Some clarifying questions. Does this include storage required for backup? Assume - Yes and only one replica. Will email be compressed? Assume - Yes Assuming world wide user base. Let's formulate the equation required to estimate this answer. total storage required = (Total users x storage growth/per user + new users x storage required/user - all users x delete storage)*compression ratio + storage required for one replica. Total Gmail users = ~1B Based on my own ema"See full answer

Ankit R. - "i use google frequently, but most of the time i use for syntax and terms which i dont undestand, google is my go to guy."See full answer

Andrea L. - "Clarification Questions: Through in-person purchases or including online? Both Cinema just for movies? Yes Amount of revenue or just tickets sold? Tickets sold High Level Equation: Cinema tickets in a year = (# of cinemas in the US) * (# of movie playings per cinema per year) * (# of viewers per cinema per screening) \# of Cinemas in the US = amount of states * average number of cinemas per state High Density Areas - 30% - 50 cinemas = 50 x 50 x .3 = 750 Suburban T"See full answer

Lee J. - "Assumption: the revenue is on a yearly basis. Revenue = No. of users x price of product x frequency of purchase x size of purchase Product of Google Map = Ads by the merchants To double the revenue, Boost the number of merchants by reaching out to them Increase the price of ads (which is not ideal since it will disincentivise some merchants) Increase the frequency of their purchase in a year (Eg. previously merchants just put ads in Google Map for 6 years and now we can encourage"See full answer

Raymond W. - "Aim of compression is to reduce the file size and bandwidth consumed in transmission in order to preserve the quality of the image or text as experienced by the consumer/user. Text compression typically uses a library to act as a key for words, either words that repeat in the same document or words that are commonly presented in all documents. And maybe even word parts. Key points are that 1. it tends not to be lossy, 2. is simple/fast/consumes relatively little memory, 3. is pretty standard"See full answer

Jacob C. - "Clarifying Questions: Does Google Photos and this feature come pre built into pixel phones or does user has to download the app or enable the feature? (N) - So adoption is not the problem. Do we have auto upload option available for users? (Y) So any user who has this turned on would not be using this feature. In other words, this feature is mainly used for selective upload I think on Pixel phones, Google photos provides unlimited high quality storage? (Y) Understanding the flow: Camer"See full answer

Tony A. - "Get alignment with interviewer on how Gen AI works, then talk about the automotive space with value chain analysis on high level: 1. Design the automobile 2. Source components 3 assemble 4. Market 5. sell to customer 6 vehicle operation and maintenance. Competition: Hyper competitive industry with ~10 big manufacturers in the world. Trends: EV, Self-driving Potential Goals for the Automotive company Gen AI use case: Gain market share by offering Gen AI driven value to its customers Bi"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