Google Interview Questions

Shahnawaz K. - "I am going to assume, the person is 50 years old and uses a basic feature phone. Here is how it goes Local Context: When you come back from morning walk, you are your friends stop at a chai point to rest and have tea, what do you talk about ? (Assume he says everything and anything). Imagine there are no friends but you still want to talk and you want your friends and everyone to listen to your thoughts / rant. Imagine you don’t want to talk but you want only listen to what your frien"See full answer

Priya J. - "User groups - Elderly People People with physical disabilities Blind people Hikers The cane required for each group is different. Elderly and People with physical disabilities are using it for support, and hence their cane has to be more stable and static. The cane for blind people is very lightweight because they use it to find any hurdle on their way The cane for hikers is mostly for support but lightweight because they cannot carry heavyweights cane while hiking. Thinking about the blind"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

Carlos S. - "Clarifications and GoalsTimeline: Three years. Geography: U.S. market. Scope: Google Photos integration with Drive, Gmail, and Pixel devices. Revenue Sources: Storage subscriptions, in-app purchases, and new streams. Google’s Mission & ObjectivesMission: Organize the world’s information and make it accessible and useful. Business Goals:Increase user engagement. Boost adoption of premium tiers. Explore new monetization streams. Landscape AnalysisCompetitors: A"See full answer

Bk - "Situation: In higher Test Environments, I realized that the developer was not Testing /insufficient Testing.. purely because of all the bugs discovered. Action: so first I did couple of things: Defect Density Metrics on the features - driven by priorities and severities, Rough estimation on cost of fixing, Impact of the bugs -were gathered. Produced metrics and had retrospection meeting to analyze situations/cause of failures and what we could learn and put in as best practices. Real"See full answer

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

Anonymous Koala - "Goal: Google goal is to organize world information and make is it universally accessible Most of google business are focused on building platforms that facilitate one or more of the three below Provide data/information Search, Youtube, Generates user data⇒ Maps, Photos, Earn from advertising==> Adsense, Google Shopping, Search GOAL of Alarm clock is to show time and set/play Alarm If google wants to get into the alarm clock business the goal should be if it can facilitate one of"See full answer

Marwan O. - "My company was acquired and I was responsible for planning and managing a transition & integration of custom real-time time-series data and event capture software. I worked with lab scientists (who were running the instruments from which the data would be captured) to understand their unique needs compared to the use cases the software was originally written and deployed for. I wrote proposals for integrating specific components of the software and abandoning others, receiving review and a"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

Darpan D. - "Clarifying and Assumptions When we say New York City, does this mean just Downtown New York or also the suburbs? Assumption: It means Downtown New York only. Is the bike-sharing service like Uber, where people share their own bikes, or is it a service run by a company with bike stands on street corners? Assumption: It’s run by a private company with bike stands on street corners. Will the bike-sharing service start as free, or will we charge people from the beginning?"See full answer

Danyal R. - "Estimate the number of Instagram posts per day Assumptions: calculating for the US only Assumption for grid photos and not stories Equation Number of Instagram posts / day = users * frequency / 365 Break down components Assumption: instagram has 1 billion active user's across the world, let's assume there's 100 million active users in US But in a day there's likely only 50% of the active users on the app [30%] Casual Users - open the app 3-4 times a week but post once ever"See full answer

Sam M. - "The design review has three stages; In-draft, Review and Complete. I consider a design review completed when the problem statement has been clearly addressed via a feature or a solution and signed off on by all the key stakeholders along with engineerings."See full answer

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

Rev - "Clarify: Are we talking about the in stream auto video ads played? How is negative feedback affecting the metrics? Decrease in watch time? Other metrics affected? Since when are we observing the -ve feedback? What threshold were we fine with for -ve feedback? Is it observed across any particular geography, OS, device type? More details on what the -ve feedback says? Are we sure there are no technical issues/ systemic issues causing this, and it is indeed the auto play of ads"See full answer

Philong T. - "I was working with a developer and designer for a hackathon project. The designer created a landing page and my partner ended up building out the design. After deploying the project, the designer sent another landing page design in his feedback. My partner didn't have enough bandwidth to change the design because the project was due that morning and and asked me what I thought. I was already working on finishing up another problem, so I had to wait to answer back in order to focus my energy"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