Recent Google Interview Questions

Jane D. - "My approach to dealing with difficult stakeholders has always been: Engage - Directly engage with the stakeholder, meet or chat Listen - Listen to what they have to say, patiently. Understand - Understand their POV, even if it is impossible at some times Ask - Ask clarifying questions. Why? When? What? Engage again - Keep them in the loop until there is closure For example, we were in the final stages of a very important, strategic project for our organization. I was leading th"See full answer

Surbhi G. - "Deep Learning is a part of Artificial Intelligence, it's like teaching the machine to think and make decisions on its own. It's like how we teach a child the concept of an apple - it's round, red, has a stem on top. We show them multiple pictures of apples and then they understand and can recognize an apple in future. Similarly, we feed lots of data to the machine, and slowly, it starts learning from that data, and can then make relevant predictions or decisions based on what it has learnt. A co"See full answer

Anonymous Narwhal - "I'm seeking a role in which I can be continually challenged to devise innovative and streamlined solutions for complex issues, particularly with regard to the persistent soaking problem. I'm excited about the opportunity to not only excel in my own performance but also to empower and enable my colleagues to perform at their absolute best. My goal is to wield my influence and magnetic qualities to not only attract but also retain top-tier engineering talent, all in alignment with our shared objec"See full answer

Pathworks P. - "I would begin by asking the following clarifying questions: Are there any special use cases such as VIP Penthouse access, restricted floors etc? Do we need to consider safety requirements or other technical constraints such as maximum load/capacity? If the lobby for the entire hotel located on the ground floor? Can we assume that the majority of the guest amenities are located near the lobby and lower floors? Can we assume that the passenger controls on the floors are purely directional"See full answer

Samiksha D. - "I assume here that the elderly person does not have much knowledge about technology and the internet. I would like to structure my answer in this way: Concepts of twitter I want the elderly to know. Take an analogy to explain the concepts. Connect the dots between the analogy back to the app. Twitter concepts : A common feed to look at the tweets created by the people in your network. Concept of retweeting. Chatting. Comments/likes. Analogy : Imagine there is an office wi"See full answer

Ash I. - "Refer https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/good-product-managers-great-shreyas-doshi/"See full answer

Chantal C. - "Understand gaps team by interviewing on 1:1, reading past performance reviews and talking to old managers/cross functional Identify Goals and use the SMART framework to set those goals (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, relevant, time related) Share with team and make sure they understand them. Clarify questions if needed. Explain WHY these goals matter. Tie to company goals/mission/culture. Put together an action plan TOGETHER- give often feedback: "pinches no punches"See full answer

Date G. - "Lets start with assumptions 100m people go out to bars in US Assuming COVID is behind us Also assuming this is annually and not monthly or daily (though it might be better to ask this) Step 1: Why should Google build something like this Google Mission: Make information accessible and useful Google's current state: Focus on improving current products (improve engagement and thus monetization) while also building things for future (growth) Product Mission: Make going to bar a"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

S H. - "Clarifications Only travellers to be considered? Or should we consider work staff, people who come to receive and see off people when they are traveling? → In essence who is considered to the count? → Assumption, only travellers. If not then you have to consider, staff (ATC, Security, Airlines ground staff, Customs, shop employees, airport staff etc.) making the estimate very difficult, But If I had to guess I would say 5% of total travellers across all the staffing categories. Estimate"See full answer

Anonymous Muskox - "Interviewer: What is your favourite Google product, and how would you improve it? Shailesh: Alright, before that, let me clarify; I have to give the Google product, which I like the most, irrespective of how it is currently performing in the market, is it a market leader or not. Also, I need to justify why it is my favourite product and suggest some improvements. Interviewer: Perfect Shailesh: Okay, the way I would like to go about it is, first, I will explain what qualit"See full answer

Jeff H. - "Problem: Internet in Africa is not prevalent Assumptions: I am a Google PM I have the resources of Google The goal is not monetization Goals: Improve quality of life in Africa by providing more consistent internet access, adoption, engagement with network. To start, I'd like to start by talking about the goals of Alphabet, which is to make the world more accessible and more useful. I believe this project fits well into our overall mission of making the world more accessible, as t"See full answer

Helen - "Clarify What type of company are we? [We are a new company that is launching a smart closet] Any constraints? [No constraints; you have infinite resources] What’s the goal? [Enter the market/acquire users] Closet for clothing only or for some commercial use? [Clothing only in homes] How are we defining a 'smart' closet? Assuming we are incorporating technology? [Yes] Which market? [You decide] --> Let's go with US market to start Business Objective/Market Context For the purpose of thi"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

Peter H. - "Google Glass, first released in 2014, failed spectacularly due to its well-publicized issues around privacy concerns. Few will forget the term 'glassholes' for those who use Google Glass ability to record everyday life, potentially without any permission from those being recorded. However, Augmented Reality is now much closer to the public imagination. Augmented reality will go through many iterations. Important for user acceptance is that the glasses look and feel just like normal glasses. Th"See full answer

V V. - "Simple file system ( Hash Map , LSM trees), and consistent hashing. I failed to discuss about conflicts ( Versioning)"See full answer