Google Interview Questions

Praveen D. - "Grandma! You know how we can look at a picture and know what's in it—like seeing a cat or a dog? Computers can learn to do that too! It's just they use special tricks and math to see and understand pictures or videos. It helps them figure out what's in the pictures, almost like how we do! Almost like giving it eyes to see the world in its own way!"See full answer

Angela - "Clarifying Qs: What are we building the Google campus for on the moon? We are the Google X team and always want to move people forward and want to be the first private entity on the moon Are we trying to build for astronauts or our employees or someone else? This will be for employees Do we already have a location on the moon and we're expanding or will this be the first one ever? This is the first one ever. For us to answer this question, we'll want to discuss Google's mission, us"See full answer

Joshua R. - "Hadoop is better than PySpark when you are dealing with extremely large scale, batch oriented, non-iterative workloads where in-memory computing isn't feasible/ necessary, like log storage or ETL workflows that don't require high response times. It's also better in situations where the Hadoop ecosystem is already deeply embedded and where there is a need for resource conscious, fault tolerant computation without the overhead of Spark's memory constraints. In these such scenarios, Hadoop's disk-b"See full answer

Kiley S. - "Improve facebook’s feed. Clarifying questions: Do we want to look at desktop or mobile specifically? – Mobile Is there a specific goal we have in mind that we are trying to meet or just general improvements? — General improvements, innovation Clarify Product: The Facebook newsfeed is the content feed that users see when landing on the app. The feed shows content posted by people users follow Within the feed the user is offered updates on people they follow - friends, family, celebrities"See full answer

Exponent - "You should be able to easily identify this as a Measure Success question. These kinds of questions are used to test your analytical skills, as well as your ability to track project progress post-launch. Recall the strategy for tackling them methodically and thoroughly: Ask clarifying questions State the goal of the feature / product Behavior Mapping / UX Flow Mapping Provide criteria to prioritize metrics Prioritize metrics Summarize Let's begin! "See full answer

Talles S. - "Me: thanks for the question. Could you tell me what type of drone is it and what is the user segment? Interviewer: What you mean by type of drone? Me: Is it a premium drone with premium features like a camera or it's more on the cheaper side? Interviewer: It's a normal drone with basic features, a good camera but nothing professional and it has the Google brand. The users are amateur drone users. Me: Awesome, is there anything specific about this drone in relation to others? You mentioned th"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

Abdurhman M. - "Solving any problems related to Custemers profitable through new service or product offer"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

Dnyaneshwar M. - "I am all-rounder"See full answer

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

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

Megha S. - "tried my best"See full answer