Google Interview Questions

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  • Google logoAsked at Google 

    "Full travel packages. Flight + hotel + experiences. They have all the data in the world to scrape to see some of the top places to visit in each city or country. Coupled with the ability to find the cheapest flights to make these trips affordable."

    Patrick K. - "Full travel packages. Flight + hotel + experiences. They have all the data in the world to scrape to see some of the top places to visit in each city or country. Coupled with the ability to find the cheapest flights to make these trips affordable."See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
    +1 more
  • "watch time = #users x avg videos/user x avg duration of video x % watched #users - already huge can't affect more avg videos/ users - sticky videos (interactive video content form + promoting youtube shorts in recommendations) avg duration of video - double edged sword (quick summaries of long videos) % watched - reduce unecessary ads + improvise and provide native advertising gamification - to win points after reaching a daily target + few days of free premium create a viral trend/ video"

    Rev - "watch time = #users x avg videos/user x avg duration of video x % watched #users - already huge can't affect more avg videos/ users - sticky videos (interactive video content form + promoting youtube shorts in recommendations) avg duration of video - double edged sword (quick summaries of long videos) % watched - reduce unecessary ads + improvise and provide native advertising gamification - to win points after reaching a daily target + few days of free premium create a viral trend/ video"See full answer

    Product Strategy
  • "Clarifying questions: What kind of users are we talking about? Internal or external ? (Assumption: External) When was this issue discovered? (Not so long ago) Is this specific to a particular geographical location ? (Answer: No) External: Geography, time ? Internal: Pain points: Technical - latency, lag Engagement - Less engagement available on website , users are bored while waiting for their search results to appear Review - Explore platform options for users to review their experie"

    Anuradha T. - "Clarifying questions: What kind of users are we talking about? Internal or external ? (Assumption: External) When was this issue discovered? (Not so long ago) Is this specific to a particular geographical location ? (Answer: No) External: Geography, time ? Internal: Pain points: Technical - latency, lag Engagement - Less engagement available on website , users are bored while waiting for their search results to appear Review - Explore platform options for users to review their experie"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Analytical
  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    +1

    "Clarifying Questions Is it for a specific museum or any museum? To start with for a specific museum , we can expand to more museums Which region? Lets say a museum in UK, US or Europe any specific problem you want to solve? nothing specific What is the objective or goal of the app? You can choose Goal : To enhance the experience of visiting the museum and increase footfall in the long run through word of mouth / referrals Users : Museum Visitors Painpoints / Use Cases :- 1) For l"

    Abhinav C. - "Clarifying Questions Is it for a specific museum or any museum? To start with for a specific museum , we can expand to more museums Which region? Lets say a museum in UK, US or Europe any specific problem you want to solve? nothing specific What is the objective or goal of the app? You can choose Goal : To enhance the experience of visiting the museum and increase footfall in the long run through word of mouth / referrals Users : Museum Visitors Painpoints / Use Cases :- 1) For l"See full answer

    Product Design
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  • "Assumptions Contact lens camera is launched only in the US Ages most likely to benefit 20-60 Doesn't work with prescription i.e. people who have prescription glasses/contact lens are not the target market Can't be worn all the time max of 10 hours. Capturing video via contact lens means people have to stare at things uninterrupted. Assuming, no that video stops the moment people close their eyelids video length will be limited to maximum staring"

    K N. - "Assumptions Contact lens camera is launched only in the US Ages most likely to benefit 20-60 Doesn't work with prescription i.e. people who have prescription glasses/contact lens are not the target market Can't be worn all the time max of 10 hours. Capturing video via contact lens means people have to stare at things uninterrupted. Assuming, no that video stops the moment people close their eyelids video length will be limited to maximum staring"See full answer

    Estimation
  • Product Manager
    Behavioral
  • Google logoAsked at Google 

    "Asked clarifying questions to understand why we want to do this. Said building is too labor intensive and AirBnB has years of experience in this. Said buying a company is probably too expensive and doesn't address why we're doing this to begin with. I said partnering with a travel company might be the best move."

    Andrea M. - "Asked clarifying questions to understand why we want to do this. Said building is too labor intensive and AirBnB has years of experience in this. Said buying a company is probably too expensive and doesn't address why we're doing this to begin with. I said partnering with a travel company might be the best move."See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Strategy
  • Google logoAsked at Google 

    "Assumptions & Clarifications Users have access to all Google Workspace applications like Google Drive, Gmail and the same photo editing tool - let us call this tool - Google Photo Editor (GPhoto). Users can share the images like Google Docs - giving people read-only, read-write / edit access Goals Google's vision is to organize the world's information and make it accessible. GPhoto's mission / goal is to organize the world’s photo and make it accessible to others to view, edit or"

    Karthik M. - "Assumptions & Clarifications Users have access to all Google Workspace applications like Google Drive, Gmail and the same photo editing tool - let us call this tool - Google Photo Editor (GPhoto). Users can share the images like Google Docs - giving people read-only, read-write / edit access Goals Google's vision is to organize the world's information and make it accessible. GPhoto's mission / goal is to organize the world’s photo and make it accessible to others to view, edit or"See full answer

    Product Manager
    System Design
    +1 more
  • "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 -"

    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

    Product Manager
    Product Design
    +1 more
  • Google logoAsked at Google 

    Permutations

    IDE
    Medium

    "function permute(nums) { if (nums.length <= 1) { return [nums]; } const prevPermutations = permute(nums.slice(0, nums.length-1)); const currentNum = nums[nums.length-1]; const permutations = new Set(); for (let prev of prevPermutations) { for (let i=0; i < prev.length; i++) { permutations.add([...prev.slice(0, i), currentNum, ...prev.slice(i)]); } permutations.add([...prev, currentNum]); } return [...permutations]"

    Tiago R. - "function permute(nums) { if (nums.length <= 1) { return [nums]; } const prevPermutations = permute(nums.slice(0, nums.length-1)); const currentNum = nums[nums.length-1]; const permutations = new Set(); for (let prev of prevPermutations) { for (let i=0; i < prev.length; i++) { permutations.add([...prev.slice(0, i), currentNum, ...prev.slice(i)]); } permutations.add([...prev, currentNum]); } return [...permutations]"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Data Structures & Algorithms
    +3 more
  • Google logoAsked at Google 

    "Clarify: Physical car garage or some app? 1 garage or a chain? Where is it located? (if highway then user seg to be focussed would change) (rn consider a residential area) Objective/ constraints? - majorly revenue i.e. #users * rev/user (acquire more users) Is there some issue and we are trying to address that via features or we just need features to improve the overall user experience? basic idea of garage: Car issue - drop it to garage/ sometimes pickup service - repair time -"

    Rev - "Clarify: Physical car garage or some app? 1 garage or a chain? Where is it located? (if highway then user seg to be focussed would change) (rn consider a residential area) Objective/ constraints? - majorly revenue i.e. #users * rev/user (acquire more users) Is there some issue and we are trying to address that via features or we just need features to improve the overall user experience? basic idea of garage: Car issue - drop it to garage/ sometimes pickup service - repair time -"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • Google logoAsked at Google 

    "What does the google translator does is translate the text from one language to other takes voice command in a language and translate it into another language both in voice and text Below are some of the Areas in which it can be improved, The user experience of the translation - text to text The current translation can take input data of certain size only. If the data size is more, it clearly rejects and doesn't translate until we truncate the input message. Suggestion to improve:"

    Kavitha G. - "What does the google translator does is translate the text from one language to other takes voice command in a language and translate it into another language both in voice and text Below are some of the Areas in which it can be improved, The user experience of the translation - text to text The current translation can take input data of certain size only. If the data size is more, it clearly rejects and doesn't translate until we truncate the input message. Suggestion to improve:"See full answer

    Product Design
    System Design
  • "Below are few key things enterprises look for in a data center : Location Proximity to target user base Potential risk exposure due to natural calamities (hurricane, storms, tornedos etc) Real estate cost (Service cost will also be proportional to how expensive it is to acquire and run data center) Security Physical security Logical security (Segregation) Industry standard compliance PCI DSS ISO etc Ability to support HA and DR requir"

    Hmm T. - "Below are few key things enterprises look for in a data center : Location Proximity to target user base Potential risk exposure due to natural calamities (hurricane, storms, tornedos etc) Real estate cost (Service cost will also be proportional to how expensive it is to acquire and run data center) Security Physical security Logical security (Segregation) Industry standard compliance PCI DSS ISO etc Ability to support HA and DR requir"See full answer

    Technical
  • "Clarifying question(s): what constitute a COVID related search? is it more on number of cases by geography, virus strains, vaccine information etc. ? Besides engagement is there anything we should take into account? Which personas are likely to be targeted: Journalists gathering more information for reporting Doctors and SMEs Common crowd with moderate to advanced education on health and safety measures and likely type of at-home entertainment Pharmaceuticals orga"

    RockyBalboa - "Clarifying question(s): what constitute a COVID related search? is it more on number of cases by geography, virus strains, vaccine information etc. ? Besides engagement is there anything we should take into account? Which personas are likely to be targeted: Journalists gathering more information for reporting Doctors and SMEs Common crowd with moderate to advanced education on health and safety measures and likely type of at-home entertainment Pharmaceuticals orga"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Analytical
  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    Video answer for 'Critique Google Maps.'

    "I would first start by telling what Google maps do: Finding direction from A to B Few users also use it for safety purpose while in Cab Businesses use it for listing themselves and also consume APIs When we open Google Maps: We see the focus is primarily on maps, giving few suggestions on top if user wants to caetgorize thier search such as pretol pump etc User can add reviews in contribute section User can review at the feed/suggestions Since primary usage is navigation, I will"

    Lakshay T. - "I would first start by telling what Google maps do: Finding direction from A to B Few users also use it for safety purpose while in Cab Businesses use it for listing themselves and also consume APIs When we open Google Maps: We see the focus is primarily on maps, giving few suggestions on top if user wants to caetgorize thier search such as pretol pump etc User can add reviews in contribute section User can review at the feed/suggestions Since primary usage is navigation, I will"See full answer

    Product Designer
    App Critique
    +1 more
  • Google logoAsked at Google 

    "Know your audience Understand who the end user is and their role within the organization. Adapt technical lingo to lingo that can be understood by the end user. Diagrams of functions with less dense text is helpful for non-technical users. If it presents like a Manual, that's a turnoff. If it presents like a Guide, non-technical people can follow it. Simplify the problem By simplifying the problem you can explain it to your client in her/his own words. Try to use examples from the client'"

    Sadhana U. - "Know your audience Understand who the end user is and their role within the organization. Adapt technical lingo to lingo that can be understood by the end user. Diagrams of functions with less dense text is helpful for non-technical users. If it presents like a Manual, that's a turnoff. If it presents like a Guide, non-technical people can follow it. Simplify the problem By simplifying the problem you can explain it to your client in her/his own words. Try to use examples from the client'"See full answer

    Technical Program Manager
    Analytical
    +1 more
  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    +1

    "Discussed a toaster, the user case for a toaster, how this toaster fails, why the company might have made those design choices."

    Robbie A. - "Discussed a toaster, the user case for a toaster, how this toaster fails, why the company might have made those design choices."See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
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