Recent Google Interview Questions

Michael M. - "Tiktok"See full answer

DM - "The key approach in this situation is to practice the model of Collaborate, Mentor, Coach, and Care. First, Collaborate with the co-worker to Identify the situation. Listen Listen Listen. understand the issues that the respective co-worker is going through and identify the root cause if it's internal or external. In case the issue is not real or just a misunderstanding or it's the case of employee morale then I would mentor the co-worker and try to motivate him/her. Provide examples (if poss"See full answer

Adib M. - "impact analysis - Facilitate triage with engg and PM to understand the impact to system/ users. and Severity of defect. Work with Engg to estimate the fix and turnaround time to dev/test/release. will this delay the launch? If no, great. Launch as planned. If yes, call stakeholder meeting informing about critical defect, impact to system/users, estimate to fix and likely delay. Recommend delay launch due to criticality/severity of defect. Once get their buy in, present plan to fix, test and"See full answer

Adib M. - "Situation: This is an example from 2019 where I worked as a TPM in a leading company in the Tax, Accounting and Audit software biz in N. America. All our engineering teams had adopted agile ways of working and utilizing Scrum. Our teams had been at this for a while and were pretty good at planning and executing sprints. We would have quarterly releases to Production but we strived to have Production ready increments each Sprint. Since the software was in use for years , we would often get Pr"See full answer

Shubh T. - "Clarifying Qns: Note: How do we define DAUs? Let's say it's open ended and based on general engagement (watch time, comments, etc.) Did the watch time went down and comments went up for the same videos or are we saying total watch time and total comments on Youtube? (Total) I am assuming we are not including Youtube Live videos because those are typically live chat 1000’s of comments for a single video. (Correct) Do we know if these two could be independent problems not correlated wit"See full answer

Siddharth J. - "Google Plus"See full answer

Aishwarya R. - "Need for this feature : A user who has to reach somewhere on time - probably someone commuting to the airport would use this feature. I would pilot this feature in a city where there is a high volume of users using uber to commute to the airport, as well as a high volume of drivers, so that we deliver on what we promise. There are 2 side to this - the end user side, and the driver side. To measure the success of this application, primarily, I would track the number of users who are booking sched"See full answer

P D. - "User: Self Driving Ride Sharing Car Companies (consdering waymo uasecase for google) Needs Identify the rider and allow only authorized rider to enter Emergency use case (allow maintenance team to enter in case of emergency) Avoid accidents with nearby vehicles Avoid blindspots with kids / pets nearby Solutions Biometrics / qr code scanning to identify the rider / maintenance team Alerting the emergency team in case of accident / fire etc. Sensors / camera in the car Remote Locking"See full answer

Push S. - "STAR story weaved around the project 0 to 1 execution with all the technical tradeoffs, issues, and success metrics involved."See full answer

Priyansh J. - "By increasing the number of paid users, I assume we mean that we want to increase the % of DAUs who pay for YT Music. First, we need to understand the Youtube Music play here. Youtube Music was carved out of Youtube because Spotify and Apple Music were getting popular. Users were listening to music on Spotify instead of on Youtube, threatening ad revenue for Youtube. Therefore, Youtube Music was born as a standalone app, where users could listen to the music ad free from anywhere anytime. In"See full answer

Harsh S. - "Some clarifying questions. Does this include storage required for backup? Assume - Yes and only one replica. Will email be compressed? Assume - Yes Assuming world wide user base. Let's formulate the equation required to estimate this answer. total storage required = (Total users x storage growth/per user + new users x storage required/user - all users x delete storage)*compression ratio + storage required for one replica. Total Gmail users = ~1B Based on my own ema"See full answer

Anushka D. - "Clarifying Points/Questions\: What are the specific needs and pain points of hotels and their guests? How can Google Assistant technology be leveraged to enhance the hotel experience? What are the potential monetization and revenue opportunities for such a product? Assumptions\: Hotels are looking for ways to improve guest experience and operational efficiency. Guests expect personalized, convenient, and technologically advanced services. Google Assistant has the capabi"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