Google Interview Questions

Agyt J. - "Getting product requirements right first : -- Gmail App to be used only within 24 humans in Mars -- Mars is a very hostile environment with extremely low temperatures and zero O2. Hardware operating in sub zero temp. Hardware probably doesn't need cooling. Battery life is restricted. -- Assume that people would be wearing specialized suites. Visibility and Listening capability is ok, however, their ability to use their fingers is severely restricted -- Greatly voice enabled and a speaking app --"See full answer

Lucy Y. - "I'm a bit confused - The $40B hrs is the total time spent commuting to work, correct? Whereas the question asks "hours lost ... in traffic". Is the answer not correct then?"See full answer

Peter H. - "Google Glass, first released in 2014, failed spectacularly due to its well-publicized issues around privacy concerns. Few will forget the term 'glassholes' for those who use Google Glass ability to record everyday life, potentially without any permission from those being recorded. However, Augmented Reality is now much closer to the public imagination. Augmented reality will go through many iterations. Important for user acceptance is that the glasses look and feel just like normal glasses. Th"See full answer

Anna H. - "Great. I’d like to break down this by discussing impacts of post investment decisions for the Pixel handset lines at two levels of micro and macro evaluation, which will be able to lead us to an evidence-based answer of what I think Google should continue to invest and ramp up their investment to hit their target ROI. First, closely looking at micro aspects, Google’s business model is a so-called multisided platform, generating either free search engines and monetizing contents for Internet use"See full answer

Wang L. - "Tagging system - tagging the resources, like tickets, tasks, pages. Support to query based on tags."See full answer

Ananya M. - "I am assuming goal is to improve driving experience for seniors and not solve for transportation between point A to B. A in ananya loves road trips and long drives but when ananya is old and grey she misses going on long drives and road trips . goal : user experience user : physical disability hinders them from getting in and out of car seniors have joint and back pains, they can sit at the same position for longer time eye sight is weak for driving low energy to walk to parking and"See full answer

Parth P. - "Establish more servers on regional bases or locally and move network traffic to these servers instead of keeping on one server."See full answer

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

AnonymousAxolotl - "Depends on what the ML model. If it's computationally heavy server side is best. If it's not, client side could be feasible, think of Apple Photos doing object recognition of photos on device, in this instance, the photos are on the device a long time and users are fine with waiting. So the use case important to consider. However broadly speaking, server side is most likely the best solution especially for this many users. Easier architecture to implement Example - client side you take"See full answer

Tanu M. - "Google Home is an app that is used by consumers to configure the smart devices for automating their home and making their home more reliable and easy to use. Clarifying questions : Do we have any time constraints by when we need to achieve this? IF we have to increase sales by 10x, it needs to focus on number of factors like increasing the partner base, improving user experience, and shift in thinking. What metrics we focus on Monetization - Making revenue 10x Number of"See full answer

Ben G. - "Situation - A time where I encouraged my work team to be more creative and innovative was while I was directing design at Blade Urban Air Mobility. Long story short, they had no creative programs in place for cross collaboration and innovation. Action - I introduced Figma into the product workflow, and set up time with the technical team to demo and go over the basics of the program. This allowed everyone to collaborate on the designs, leave comments and streamline the process of creative dev"See full answer

Ananya M. - "goal : user experience CUJ for cinema : Part A : deciding to watch a movie read reviews for movies that have released check nearby cinemas that are showing that movie check with friends/family who want to go with you find tickets online at a nearby cinema (if its a hit movie, you better hurry) buy tickets online split price on an app like split wise Part B : physically arriving at the theatre arrive at cinema hall find parking show e-ticket to enter stand i"See full answer

David P. - "delete"See full answer

Sushma R. - "open a social media challenge to share their street view. It will cost 0"See full answer