Recent Google Interview Questions

Navya D. - "I am assuming this is for Trains from one city to another and not the local trains. Top pain points are - Information on the how much time is left to reach destination Cleanliness and safety Food and water supply"See full answer

Praniti S. - "Google VR mission - my understanding is to provide user an immersive experience where your room is the exploration ground/canvas and consumer has limitless possibilities What i know about VR : VR umbrella: Daydream and Cardboard VR devices: Headset/Cardboard/Desktop/Mobile VR product: Google Maps VR/ Carboard VR/Youtube VR/ TiltBrush/ Blocks VR feature: High quality video/ low latency video? Which product are we adding a new feature to? Tilt Brush which device are we implementing the new feat"See full answer

Googlepm 1. - "Clarifying questions : 1. What is the product Hardware/software specific ? 2. Any particular analytics done or should it be covered as a part of the solution ? 3. Any resource constraints ? 4. Any timeline in particular ? In order to internationalize a product, the following steps could be done: Identify the market/regions : Based on, say, Google analytics, find the regions which has the most clicks / attention for our product Going wide vs Going deep : Is it a single region that we are"See full answer

Arvind R. - "Goal: Increase adoption of HPC capabilities offered by Google within enterprise customer context Vision: Accelerate high computing needs of enterprise, driven by innovation and definitive business outcomes Does this align with Google's vision - YES Trend Analysis: Technology: a. Introduce Intraday liquidity calculations b. Improve fraud detection using much large volume of data c. Faster value added risk calculations. d. Graph analysis for entity linking for large volume of customer a"See full answer

Anonymous Muskox - "Clarification about the Google Web Answers, its goal, and vision for the next 4-5 years. Talk about the different user personas and the actions which they should take to achieve that vision. Finally replicating these actions and corresponding actions into metrics. Evaluate the different action if we there are any negative recursion about these metrics"See full answer

S K. - "Clarifying questions: Location: Mountian view campus. [Google has campuses across the world and for the interview purpose design the product for Mountian view campus] Assumption : Scope of the design is on-campus travel purpose between buildings. Product: Digital product Target Customer segments Meetings: Googlers who takes bikes to commute to a different build for meetings. a. Goal: On-Time for meetings Lunch or breakfast: Lunch spot co-ordinat"See full answer

Scott S. - "To recount an experience from my last project . We were at the initial stages of designing a new data platform to enhance our trading analytics capabilities. The conflict arose over the selection of a data processing framework. I was advocating for Apache Spark due to its scalability and performance benefits, especially for handling large volumes of derivatives data. Another senior team member preferred a different technology they had more experience with, which they believed would be easier to"See full answer

Qusai B. - "Assumption: I’m estimating the minimum number of trains required to fulfil maximum demand I’m including all trains that’s serving NYC Formula: Before I state my formula, I would like to mention a few things I will be calculating the number of trains required to fulfill all demand at the peak time during a workday. I assume peak time lasts for 2 hours I’m assuming that a train takes 2 hours to complete one roundtrip on its route, which means any given train can service rider"See full answer

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

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

Anonymous Muskox - "User Persona Individual heavy Users Casual users Enterprise Users Occasional Users I would like to think more about the Enterprise users, because they are the power users and the maximum revenue of the Google may come up with the enterprise solutions. It is my hypothesis that despite of improvement of the Google drive, common individual users are highly unlikely to use the premium version of the G Suite User Journey of the person using Google Drive Want to work on the new document"See full answer

Bella R. - "Approach Clarify the question Define deaf --> unable to hear, but can communicate via sign language, lip read and use all other senses Define fire alarm --> for residential use, it notifies occupants of smoke and potential fires and alerts fire department to check in and/or come over Define constraints --> budgetary constraint, design should be user-friendly and convenient Define goals --> get folks out of harm's way quickly and notify fire department to c"See full answer

Manohar A. - "Some follow-up questions to correctly understand what "improve" means here? Is it to have: more riders, better user experience, monetization, more/new market penetration. Let's assume interviewer requested to choose whatever I prefer. I choose better user experience which might trigger other areas of improvement as well. Some more probing questions: To I need to consider USA only or any other country/region or global? Can I consider only popular on demand taxi service for this question? One wa"See full answer

Akshai V. - "Google Assistant is the Voice AI which converts Natural Language to Queries/Instruction , processes it and get the results and again converts it back to Meaningful Results to the User Currently Google Assistant is Integrated in Multiple End Points. Phone Google Home Chrome Cast Google Chrome Books Some of the Use Cases Google Assistant is used is Making Phone Calls/Texting Asking General Queries/Searching for Information Integration with Devices and Turning them O"See full answer

Krishna K. - "Improve what aspect of Google Translate ? What is the current state of that aspect ?"See full answer

Bk - "To bring any product to market here are the below steps that I would (did) take: 1.Understand the problem stmt / stakeholder need and asses depth of the problem (qualitatively and then gather metrics to quantify it) 2.Do market study on understanding relatable solutions if any 3.Carve out viable solution/ideation that aligns with overall Business Vision/Goal 4.Get stakeholders buy in on the idea 5.Guesstimate and prioritize high level features, Cost and ROI. 6.Build Business case for Project Le"See full answer

Tabrez Z. - "First of all, I could tell that Google maps are used by billions of people around the world. Not only immensely used by the billions of people, but also they are dependent on google maps. I believe that google maps are the only map service in the world, which is providing the best services. We are collecting huge data from this service, which is very useful to predict or analyze market sentiments. We have invested a humongous amount of time, effort, and money to establish these renowned google M"See full answer

Anirudh G. - "Initial Questions: 1.How many patients do you think you will have in the next 5 years? Interviewer: Max 1000 In that case we don't have to build a highly scalable system. 2.Will you be carrying out some procedures like xrays, ct scans or will only be doing consultations? Interviewer: We will be doing minor procedures. Will refer to hospitals for anything major. 3.I see that you mentioned 2 locations. Are there any special billing requirements for each of them? Interviewer: No Users: Fo"See full answer