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Google System Design Interview Questions

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  • Machine Learning Engineer
    System Design
  • Google logoAsked at Google 

    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_transformation"

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

    System Design
    Technical
  • 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

    System Design
    Product Design
  • 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
  • Google logoAsked at Google 

    "Clarifying questions : Which Kindle device are we talking about ? Kindle paper white, Kindle Oasis? , Kindle paper white 6.9' , Kindle tabs ? - Kindle oasis Kindle Oasis , what are the metric we are trying to achieve ? users onboarding? more marketshare? onboard amazon existing customers Landscape : Competition : In ebook readers, the main competition comes from Kobo, iPads, tabs. Kindle oasis feature is especially and absolutely for reading purpose and buying books to read and th"

    Priya K. - "Clarifying questions : Which Kindle device are we talking about ? Kindle paper white, Kindle Oasis? , Kindle paper white 6.9' , Kindle tabs ? - Kindle oasis Kindle Oasis , what are the metric we are trying to achieve ? users onboarding? more marketshare? onboard amazon existing customers Landscape : Competition : In ebook readers, the main competition comes from Kobo, iPads, tabs. Kindle oasis feature is especially and absolutely for reading purpose and buying books to read and th"See full answer

    Product Manager
    System Design
    +1 more
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    "Clarifying question: By high-tech, we mean internet enabled refrigerator which uses technology and assists us in our decision making or takes decisions for us Users: Working women Homemakers Bachelors and Spinsters living alone Other family members (Elderly, Kids etc) Prioritized users: Working women, Bachelors and Spinsters living alone Problems: Food left in the refrigerator gets rotten as it goes out of notice I am at the supermarket and I dont know the inven"

    Sahil A. - "Clarifying question: By high-tech, we mean internet enabled refrigerator which uses technology and assists us in our decision making or takes decisions for us Users: Working women Homemakers Bachelors and Spinsters living alone Other family members (Elderly, Kids etc) Prioritized users: Working women, Bachelors and Spinsters living alone Problems: Food left in the refrigerator gets rotten as it goes out of notice I am at the supermarket and I dont know the inven"See full answer

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

    "👇 Your feedback is very much appreciated 👇 Clarifying Questions Bookshelf: how is this bookshelf going to be used? at home? in a library? Elderly People: do we have more precisions on this elderly population? are they sick?disabled? [Interviewer: this bookshelf will be for home purposes. You'll have to specify.] Here's what we gonna do: Users & Pain Points: let's try to better understand who we are designing this bookshelf for Solutions: we'll brainstorm a few solutions and"

    Julien C. - "👇 Your feedback is very much appreciated 👇 Clarifying Questions Bookshelf: how is this bookshelf going to be used? at home? in a library? Elderly People: do we have more precisions on this elderly population? are they sick?disabled? [Interviewer: this bookshelf will be for home purposes. You'll have to specify.] Here's what we gonna do: Users & Pain Points: let's try to better understand who we are designing this bookshelf for Solutions: we'll brainstorm a few solutions and"See full answer

    Product Manager
    System Design
    +1 more
  • "Zero in on the problem, the expectations of user are to find a restaurant but their feed is uninspired so they may bounce out of Yelp. Identify the impact size of user feeling like discovery is not personalised enough by seeing % of users that selected a restaurant from the homepage If large enough, I will look at who is likely the ones that want personalisation and why? Do they feel like they want to try new restaurants or are they finding it difficult to find restaurants they have been"

    Chermaine Y. - "Zero in on the problem, the expectations of user are to find a restaurant but their feed is uninspired so they may bounce out of Yelp. Identify the impact size of user feeling like discovery is not personalised enough by seeing % of users that selected a restaurant from the homepage If large enough, I will look at who is likely the ones that want personalisation and why? Do they feel like they want to try new restaurants or are they finding it difficult to find restaurants they have been"See full answer

    Product Manager
    System Design
    +2 more
  • Technical Program Manager
    System Design
  • "Since I am residing in Bangalore, I will consider the Bengaluru airport. The airport has 2 terminals. I am going to consider the security scan done at both the terminals for the estimation. Does it include security scans for both international and domestic flights? --> Both The airport crew members and pilots also go through the security scan. So, should I include only them as well or only the passengers in my calculation? --> Only the passengers Number of people going through the security scan"

    Sangeeta P. - "Since I am residing in Bangalore, I will consider the Bengaluru airport. The airport has 2 terminals. I am going to consider the security scan done at both the terminals for the estimation. Does it include security scans for both international and domestic flights? --> Both The airport crew members and pilots also go through the security scan. So, should I include only them as well or only the passengers in my calculation? --> Only the passengers Number of people going through the security scan"See full answer

    Product Manager
    System Design
    +1 more
  • "To determine what predictions to show, our systems look for common queries that match what someone starts to enter into the search box but also consider:"

    Abdurhman M. - "To determine what predictions to show, our systems look for common queries that match what someone starts to enter into the search box but also consider:"See full answer

    System Design
    Technical
  • "Clarification Questions Do we need to calculate what we are seeing and processing or we want to process our unconscious thoughts in the memory as well? [You can have ] And we need to calculate the amount of storage for a person in single day? [Yes] For more product management interview experience https://technomanagers101.blogspot.com/ High Level Formula = (24 hours - 6 hours of sleep(assuming no processing))([(4 hours of Concentration)(3.5 GB/hr analogous to movie playing at 108"

    Anonymous Muskox - "Clarification Questions Do we need to calculate what we are seeing and processing or we want to process our unconscious thoughts in the memory as well? [You can have ] And we need to calculate the amount of storage for a person in single day? [Yes] For more product management interview experience https://technomanagers101.blogspot.com/ High Level Formula = (24 hours - 6 hours of sleep(assuming no processing))([(4 hours of Concentration)(3.5 GB/hr analogous to movie playing at 108"See full answer

    System Design
    Estimation
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    System Design
    Technical
  • Product Manager
    System Design
    +1 more
  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    System Design
    Product Design
  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    Product Manager
    System Design
    +1 more
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    Product Manager
    System Design
    +1 more
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    "Museums are multi-revenue organizations. They dont have much or any profits in the process but thats becuase they dont want to either. All the money pretty much goes to operational costs required to be a well maintained place of exhibit. Lets consider the sources they currently "make" the money from- governments(national and/or state) private donors and trustees heritage organizations with their lottery fundings self channels like admission/entry fees, tickets for exhibitions, gift s"

    Debajyoti B. - "Museums are multi-revenue organizations. They dont have much or any profits in the process but thats becuase they dont want to either. All the money pretty much goes to operational costs required to be a well maintained place of exhibit. Lets consider the sources they currently "make" the money from- governments(national and/or state) private donors and trustees heritage organizations with their lottery fundings self channels like admission/entry fees, tickets for exhibitions, gift s"See full answer

    System Design
    Product Design
  • System Design
    Technical
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