Google Interview Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

Soundharya S. - "Designing a smart fridge is something we can compare with designing our smart phone, obviously which is not as handy as our mobile phones. I can design in such a way that it is operated through our mobile phone. for ex, if we are out of town instead of worrying about the condition of the items in the fridge we can stay close with just one click away, while coming to product installation then I would say instead of taking a lot of time in searching the items, showcase a display where a list of it"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

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

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