Google Interview Questions

Andrei S. - "Follow up question was: what is your strategy to sell it?"See full answer

Joohi M. - "Get an audience with the big player - 1) Talk about the camera tech KPI that your company has improved/ 2) Talk about the technology itself 3) Talk about how it's better than the big player's competitors 4) Show a demo through a few benchmarks 5) Promise the big company that your company will support their product end to end if integrated into their product 6) Try to differentiate on pricing 7) Also show how the big player can win more in the market - maybe more user acquisition, or more engage"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

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

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

Caroline V. - "The answer likely depends on the objective, so I started out with what we were seeking to accomplish. Are we trying to eliminate under-utilized bills, save paper, reduce forgery, or something else? Establishing this focus enables you to dive deeper on the solution."See full answer

Guru M. - "I have softened recruited people through LinkedIn. People from LinkedIn are more than happy to share their feedback on new products and features and to my surprise, I also saved a lot of company money on recruiting through services and offered Amazon vouchers to participants instead."See full answer

Suyash kumar 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

Bg - "It is a very interesting question! Can I assume that the smell can be measured on a scale and it will be possible to identify something (like food) based on smell? I have no other question for now. Let me take a moment to review. ... We use smartphone primarily for communication (voice, video, internet), experience (ar, vr) and to get things done (apps). Smell brings a different dimension altogether. Here are some areas that I will research more. Convert smell data into something inform"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

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

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

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

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

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

Ananya M. - "Assumption: question is about people in the US, and we define frequent bar visitor as someone who visits a bar twice a week. we are defining bars as places that people go for alcoholic beverage , not for the snacks , non alcoholic beverage or sports TV population of use 330M , 80m per age group 0-20 (eliminate because drinking age is 21 and above) 60-80 (eliminate because they prefer drinks at home or sit down restaurants or are very health conscious to go drinking) 20-30 : 40m 80%"See full answer