Recent Google Interview Questions

Parth P. - "Establish more servers on regional bases or locally and move network traffic to these servers instead of keeping on one server."See full answer

Surbhi G. - "Ensure immediate safety: The first priority is to secure the vehicle and its occupants by stopping the engine, activating hazard lights, and unlocking doors. Assess the situation: The car evaluates the extent of damage, determines its location, and checks on the status of passengers. Call for help: Based on the assessment, the car calls emergency services if necessary and notifies the manufacturer. Collect and store accident data: This is crucial for later analysis and potential legal pu"See full answer

Aabid S. - "We had a huge launch on September 1st of this year where we completely redesigned our application from the grounds up and also migrated to a new platform (React.JS). This project took us 8 months and the launch was a huge deal for the team. Unfortunately the launch wasn't as smooth as we expected and despite doing multiple rounds of QA, some major issues cropped up in the core part of the app right after launch and our client was quite upset since it was disrupting their day-to-day workflow. "See full answer

Sanket W. - "Launched a new variant of credit card loaded with Health and Wellness Benefit"See full answer

Sumeet R. - "Got a very different answer than everybody. I seem to be off here. But here goes ..will appreciate feedback Clarifying ..all human population in US and not just working population? Yes US Population: ~300Mn Segmenting Population. 0-19 - 75M 20-40- 75M 41-60 - 75M 60-80- 75M 80-100 - 5 Mn Removing 80 segment as stay at home and not eligible for commuting Revised Table 2-19 - 75M 20-40- 75M 41-60 - 75M 60-80- 75M Out of this employable audience that is has"See full answer

Ankur B. - "If the CEO of YouTube asked you to double the total watch time of the site, how would you do it? Clarifying: --What: Mobile / Desktop | --Where: Global or some certain market? | Any customer segment? --When: How long to have this achieved? --Resource constraints: This is obviously going to come at the expense of something else. How is this related to YouTube’s other products - Music, Premium, Movies, Originals etc, or is this across all of them? Can I design a new feature? How has watcht"See full answer

John S. - "I have no idea if this would qualify, but I took a different, rather singular approach. Curious and gracious in advance for any and all feedback. My main question is whether this response goes into enough depth with regards to all the content types that Google Map stores, as I chose to focus uniquely on image storage (but am sure to state that clearly before I began): Clarifying questions: global map or US/sectional map? Assume global storage on a single end-user device? Yes consider co"See full answer

Surbhi G. - "Understand the problem:Users in areas with poor or no data coverage can't fully utilize their smartphones. This affects communication, access to information, and use of various apps. Potential solutions: a) Offline capabilities: Enhance offline modes for popular apps (maps, messaging, content consumption). Implement better caching mechanisms to store frequently accessed data. Develop a system for queuing actions to be executed once coverage is restored. b) Improved connectivity: -"See full answer

Ranjani M. - "What is the goal of this product? If its engagement for the people in a flight, can other options be explored? If there is a particular business insistence for hangman for engagement, the following can be the features of the game: Pain point: Typing might be hard Feature: Connect with phone keyboard to enable typing Pain point: These games do not engage multiple people simultaneously. Have leaderboards and multiplayer duels where the game is designed to hang the other player in case of a"See full answer

Yashveer singh R. - "Tell me about yourself? What is your weakness?"See full answer

Suhas M. - "Ads"See full answer

Rika S. - "Let's start by understanding Google's goals with Search. Google Search is by far the #1 search engine, capturing 70% of the search market. There are probably two reasons why Google would bid to maintain its place as the default search engine on Firefox: the first, Firefox is a popular web browser, with many users, and Google wants to retain the large user base who search on Firefox. Second, Firefox users tend to be more privacy oriented than users of other browsers, therefore Google wants to c"See full answer

Kunal S. - "Goal Clarification Let’s start by clarifying the goals on the in-flight entertainment system. My assumption is that the goal to enhance/improve the in-flight customer experience and increase passenger loyalty rather than generating additional revenue. User Segments We can broadly segment the customers into casual traveler frequent traveler frequent business frequent leisure travelers Given that frequent business traveler account for the highest airline revenue"See full answer

Unicorn 2. - "Clarifying questions: What is leisure travel? Assuming : Travel for vacation not business What is the vision/mission of the company that we are developing this for (I would like to keep this as an anchor to any users, pain points, solutions that we pick) Assuming : Brand new company - startup. Nothing specific in vision/mission for now. When we say travel user experience -> Do we have an existing product that we want to improve on? Is yes, is there any particular complaint or metric issue rel"See full answer

Amit S. - "YT's mission is to give everyone a voice and show them the world. So when a user is sharing their voice with us in the form of a feedback, I would receive it with open mind. I would first determine what the review is about: 1. app/website's performance 2. quality of content they experienced 3. complain about YT being addictive and causing them to lose time 4. difficulty in using the app/website (search, navigation, recent changes negatively affected their experience) 5. complain about other YTbe"See full answer

Esha - "Clarifying Questions What do we mean by ‘improve’? Is there a certain goal that we are trying to attain? Is there a target user that we are going for? Any constraints or things to keep in mind when building this? Assumptions Only focused on google docs and not collaboration on other G-suite products such as PPT or sheets What is Google Docs? Web-based productivity tool that allows you to access your files from any computer through your gmail account. You can also share and"See full answer

Daniel P. - "Okay, so I understand the question: "how does Google Maps compute estimated time of arrival"... There are a couple scenarios when ETA is calculated: planning a future journey, planning current journey. Can we assume scope to the current journey? The learnings will likely be transferable. User inputs to ETA include origin, destination, and route chosen. Let's assume first that the user has chosen an origin, destination, and a route chosen. We can come back to these assumptions later. The way I'"See full answer

Jasmin R. - "Let's imagine you want to open Google Maps, you type maps.google.com and hit Enter. Here is what happens: You type maps.google.com into the address bar of your browser. Browser completes the address, for example, maps.google.com → https://www.maps.google.com [Address decoding] → browser breaks down the URL into parts ‘https://’: protocol → how the browser should connect to the website Default is HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) which shows up as ‘ http:/"See full answer