Google Interview Questions

Joohi M. - "Drew the following framework - Maturity of the tech (if it is too mature then consider buying), Competitors (how many, when are they launching this new tech etc.), Market Share of competitors, Financial considerations (build vs buy NVP), Collaborators for this tech, Economic Climate (Anti-trust, crisis etc.)"See full answer

Anonymous Muskox - "An operating system like Android Go for low-powered devices. Slimming of application like Google Go or Gmail Go which is focused on the emerging markets. Strategic partnership with local telecom companies to provide free wifi to emerging or markets with low data. For example -> Facebook partnered with JIO in India to make the internet penetration more deep. "See full answer

Avi P. - "Product management deals with new product development, enhancing existing products, monitoring the performance, planning, forecasting, monetization, pricing, product launch, and marketing of a product. Personally, I would like to improve many aspects of Product management. Try to understand the Product we are developing as much as possible. Brainstorm and think about long term goals and vision for product we are responsible for. Hypothesize the Product vision and value of the product for"See full answer

Exponent - "This is a Fermi problem — an estimation or approximation problem with limited information and back-of-the-envelope calculations. There's no right answer: interviewers want to understand how you think and how well you can explain your reasoning, rather than what you already know. Recall the formula for Fermi problems: Ask clarifying questions Catalog what you know Make equation(s) Think about edge cases to add to equation **Breakdown components of your equat"See full answer

Ankit C. - "I can use personalised announcement, something like speaking out loud the time in a more sublte way, instead of blaring sound of an alarm. We can put dynamic alarm tune, meaning one type of tune repeats itself only after a certain period of days. That should help the tune in not becoming the noise to the user, and so he doesn't get indifferent to same tune over time. Can add a voice assistant to set the alarm, pre-recorded with a fixed set of voice commands - to avoid reliance on internet. Can"See full answer

Product V. - "Clarifying QQ What is the definition of children - Say age 8-13 Are we referring to the writing pen - Ball or fountain - Feel free to make assumption Are we designing for the first time writing experience - Feel free to make an assumption What is the overall goal here - Allow children to experience with pen Any specific country or region - Say International I will take India and then we can design something on the similar lines for the developing world - something that wi"See full answer

Ramesh T. - "I will talk about the carwash landscape here a bit. How futuristic do you want the solution to be - flying cars kind of futuristic or something that I can use even now ? What do you mean by a car wash - Is it a physical location where I take my car to OR is it something that I can install at home ? There are two sides to a car wash set up - the car wash company and the user - I am going to assume that we are building this solution for the user. Is there an specific goal in mind or I can cho"See full answer

Jenny L. - "I would target any demographic where their natural sense of "smell" is diminished or no longer available (consumer). I would also target commercial market opportunities in the food and cosmetics (specifically fragrance)."See full answer

R - "After further thinking on it, I take back the comments on phone-to-phone vs server-to-phone comments. Even if its p2p the smell data has to pass through a central messaging system. So we have to assume the technology to persist the smell also exists. So even (a) is possible. A perfume maker is capturing the smell and along with the perfume product attaching the smell data and posting on an e-commerce platform. Its similar to end-to-end encryption where data is encrypted in transit and at rest. I"See full answer

Anonymous Muskox - "Metrics which Youtube Consider before building a recommender system Number of likes on a video by user The watch time of a video by the user The video disklied by the user The video share by a user The video skipped or churn with 20-30 seconds. Depending on this Youtube build a recommender system. The video suggestion feature in youtube works based on the recommender system. It may use a hybrid of batch prediction and online prediction. So depending on the above metrics, the youtube p"See full answer

Bipin G. - "Identify the best platform to reach millennials (Youtube, Instagram). Run a survey/ research on pain points millennials are facing in the smart home products sector Identify a product that gives the most value with optimal effort Build and Launch The marketing team should use the same platform to identify key influencers on social platforms and use an emotional connection to millennials with an ad campaign"See full answer

Anonymous Muskox - "So Machine learning provides the ability to machines to learn patterns from large data. So applying the same when needed. So the type of algorithm depends on the requirement/use case or the data. For example, if we have data that is labeled and we need to do classification then we will go and perform logistic regression but if we want prediction instead of classification, then we will go and build a regression model. In case the data is not labeled, then we can go ahead and build a model usin"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

Googlepm 1. - "Since there is ample amount of data, there are various options to use them : Track travellers : Using traffic data coupled with user's GPS, in consent with the user, find the user's exact spot, this can be valuable in case of emergencies or tracking a school bus. Better ticketing : I understand that the notion is to NOT build anything with navigation, however if we have all data on the traffic, data analytics can predict if particular routes are used most, say if three connection routes a"See full answer