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Asked at Google, Google Cloud (GCP) • 5 years ago
As a PM at Google Cloud, which product would you prioritize for development?
Product Strategy
7 answers
+4
"Form what I know I would state the following two points: Only 20% of google's $180B revenue comes from non-ad revenue sources. Google Cloud is a big part of Google's revenue diversification efforts. Google cloud at $13B is still under 10% of total revenue. Google cloud is at position 3 compared after Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure. Typically only top 2 platforms take majority of stake in a lot of businesses. Google Cloud's Goal: Become one of the top two Cloud platforms in the world by deep"
Venkateswara reddy K. - "Form what I know I would state the following two points: Only 20% of google's $180B revenue comes from non-ad revenue sources. Google Cloud is a big part of Google's revenue diversification efforts. Google cloud at $13B is still under 10% of total revenue. Google cloud is at position 3 compared after Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure. Typically only top 2 platforms take majority of stake in a lot of businesses. Google Cloud's Goal: Become one of the top two Cloud platforms in the world by deep"See full answer
Product Strategy
Asked at Google • 5 years ago
How would you improve Google Docs, and what key metrics would you focus on?
Analytical
Product Design
39 answers
+36
"Gotcha, so I understand that our goal is to improve Google Docs and identify key metrics. Questions Is the purpose of these metrics to quantify the performance specifically of the features we suggest? Or Docs as a broader product and its impact on the Google ecosystem? Let's assume the former. Is there any goal we are trying to improve for Google Docs? Let's assume we want to increase usage, and have Docs also drive productivity suite subscriptions. Are there any specific"
Daniel P. - "Gotcha, so I understand that our goal is to improve Google Docs and identify key metrics. Questions Is the purpose of these metrics to quantify the performance specifically of the features we suggest? Or Docs as a broader product and its impact on the Google ecosystem? Let's assume the former. Is there any goal we are trying to improve for Google Docs? Let's assume we want to increase usage, and have Docs also drive productivity suite subscriptions. Are there any specific"See full answer
Analytical
Product Design
Asked at Google, Spotify • 5 years ago
How would you monetize Spotify?
Product Design
Product Strategy
7 answers
+4
"Spotify is a music streaming app. Monetization of Spotify happens in multiple ways : Ads Subscriptions (Ads free, premium) Make Spotify default on Android phones as Apple Music on Iphones Spotify to be a default on Nest hubs Exclusive membership (New songs ) Learn with Spotify classes Chat with Content creators (for a minimum fee)"
Anjaly J. - "Spotify is a music streaming app. Monetization of Spotify happens in multiple ways : Ads Subscriptions (Ads free, premium) Make Spotify default on Android phones as Apple Music on Iphones Spotify to be a default on Nest hubs Exclusive membership (New songs ) Learn with Spotify classes Chat with Content creators (for a minimum fee)"See full answer
Product Design
Product Strategy
Asked at Google • 5 years ago
Name a product that has poor accessibility. How would you improve it and measure the success?
Analytical
Product Design
1 answer
"developing secured mobile phones for soldiers. too hot. the challenge was to find a creative ideas for power reduction on the existing technology"
Rachel. kazir R. - "developing secured mobile phones for soldiers. too hot. the challenge was to find a creative ideas for power reduction on the existing technology"See full answer
Analytical
Product Design
Asked at Google, Infosys, Meta + 1 more • 7 months ago
Redesign the airport experience.
Product Manager
Product Design
+1 more
11 answers
+8
"I would like to speak loud to narrow the scope of this question so I can be effective in identifying a solution to the problem on hand. Hope that is OK. You mentioned, “Re-design the airport experience”. Is there a goal for this re-design exercise? Some top goals that come to my mind are the following. Please guide me so I can set it and we can proceed from there. “Increase the number of passengers who travel to and from this airport” “Improve customer satisfaction” **“Get in"
Tara J. - "I would like to speak loud to narrow the scope of this question so I can be effective in identifying a solution to the problem on hand. Hope that is OK. You mentioned, “Re-design the airport experience”. Is there a goal for this re-design exercise? Some top goals that come to my mind are the following. Please guide me so I can set it and we can proceed from there. “Increase the number of passengers who travel to and from this airport” “Improve customer satisfaction” **“Get in"See full answer
Product Manager
Product Design
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Asked at Google, Pinterest • a year ago
Imagine a teleportation machine that can teleport humans for 100 meters. How would you monetize it? What are the use cases?
Product Manager
Product Design
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1 answer
"Assumption about the teleportation machine: Teleportation is instantaneous like Star Trek The product does not take too much space maybe 6 ft by 6 ft and 10ft high is good enough Teleportation works vertically both above ground and underground as well as going 100 meters horizontally If possible you can combine multiple teleportation machine to repeat teleportation Users groups A product like this can be leveraged for almost everyone but I think I want to focus on users who ha"
Niaz - "Assumption about the teleportation machine: Teleportation is instantaneous like Star Trek The product does not take too much space maybe 6 ft by 6 ft and 10ft high is good enough Teleportation works vertically both above ground and underground as well as going 100 meters horizontally If possible you can combine multiple teleportation machine to repeat teleportation Users groups A product like this can be leveraged for almost everyone but I think I want to focus on users who ha"See full answer
Product Manager
Product Design
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Asked at Google, Microsoft • 5 years ago
You're a PM at a vending machine company. Your CEO asks you to design a new line of vending machines for Hotels/Motels. What would you do?
Execution
Product Design
7 answers
+4
"Me: First of all, I’d like to have some clarification about this project. Me: What is the current product line design of the vending machine? Is this a traditional vending machine? Customers pay money cash or credit card, and select products and receive the product. Interviewer: Yes, that is the correct assumption. We make vending machines for canned drinks and bottled drinks. Another product line is for selling small packaged snacks. Me: What is the goal of this project? Is"
Takashi M. - "Me: First of all, I’d like to have some clarification about this project. Me: What is the current product line design of the vending machine? Is this a traditional vending machine? Customers pay money cash or credit card, and select products and receive the product. Interviewer: Yes, that is the correct assumption. We make vending machines for canned drinks and bottled drinks. Another product line is for selling small packaged snacks. Me: What is the goal of this project? Is"See full answer
Execution
Product Design
Asked at Google • a year ago
Design a camera for the elderly.
Product Manager
Product Design
5 answers
+1
"What can be a camera ? point and shoot camera - to capture events Video camera - to record events Surveillance camera - cctv camera to monitor movements Elderly above 65 (male and female) with or without any medical condition Elderly can be tech-savvy but majority would be non-tech savvy. We can also further look to segment this customer base as elderly who are Living with their Children Living in foster care Living alone For the moment , i would restrict the geo"
Max V. - "What can be a camera ? point and shoot camera - to capture events Video camera - to record events Surveillance camera - cctv camera to monitor movements Elderly above 65 (male and female) with or without any medical condition Elderly can be tech-savvy but majority would be non-tech savvy. We can also further look to segment this customer base as elderly who are Living with their Children Living in foster care Living alone For the moment , i would restrict the geo"See full answer
Product Manager
Product Design
Asked at Google • 5 years ago
Design a spice rack for the blind.
Product Design
2 answers
"Assumptions: > Target User: Blind = No vision, but no other handicaps (movement, touch, smell, hear) > Spice Rack: Kitchen = Primarliy cooking (as opposed to placed on Dining table) JTBD: > 1. User is able to locate the required spice > 2. User is able to extract the required amount of spice, once located > 3. User is able to fill/refill the spice Existing Solutions / Limitations / Pain Points: > JTBD 1 = Solved by existing Braille based systems. > JTBD 2 = Priority 1 > JTBD 3 = Priority 2 "
Pattern P. - "Assumptions: > Target User: Blind = No vision, but no other handicaps (movement, touch, smell, hear) > Spice Rack: Kitchen = Primarliy cooking (as opposed to placed on Dining table) JTBD: > 1. User is able to locate the required spice > 2. User is able to extract the required amount of spice, once located > 3. User is able to fill/refill the spice Existing Solutions / Limitations / Pain Points: > JTBD 1 = Solved by existing Braille based systems. > JTBD 2 = Priority 1 > JTBD 3 = Priority 2 "See full answer
Product Design
Asked at Google, Meta • a year ago
Design an app for gardening.
Product Manager
Product Design
2 answers
"Clarifying questions What do you mean by app for gardening? E-commerce kind of app for buying selling or tutorial or something else? Up to me. What is the goal of this app? Getting users and increasing engagement Who are we? startup What is the time frame we are looking at for this? No constraints Where are we looking to implement this? Start with India. User segments Type: Commercial, Personal Plant Parent: New, medium, Old Profession: Student, Working Professional, Stay"
Namrata L. - "Clarifying questions What do you mean by app for gardening? E-commerce kind of app for buying selling or tutorial or something else? Up to me. What is the goal of this app? Getting users and increasing engagement Who are we? startup What is the time frame we are looking at for this? No constraints Where are we looking to implement this? Start with India. User segments Type: Commercial, Personal Plant Parent: New, medium, Old Profession: Student, Working Professional, Stay"See full answer
Product Manager
Product Design
Asked at Google • 5 years ago
Design an app for the DMV.
Product Design
1 answer
"Goal - Use latest technology to efficiently drive DMV processes User landscape - DMV Employees Public Clarify if we designing for employee productivity, employee shifts, automate internal processes for DMV OR for Public who uses DMV services Lets assume it is for Public. So My prompt and new goal becomes: DMV app to reduce foot traffic to DMV by automating processes online Is that correct to assume? User Journey today: User walkins to DMV -> A User takes online appointment -> Fill sin"
Surbhi G. - "Goal - Use latest technology to efficiently drive DMV processes User landscape - DMV Employees Public Clarify if we designing for employee productivity, employee shifts, automate internal processes for DMV OR for Public who uses DMV services Lets assume it is for Public. So My prompt and new goal becomes: DMV app to reduce foot traffic to DMV by automating processes online Is that correct to assume? User Journey today: User walkins to DMV -> A User takes online appointment -> Fill sin"See full answer
Product Design
Asked at Google • 5 years ago
Design a product for drivers during rush hour.
Product Design
98 answers
+92
"Clarification Define rush hour? hours leading up to the work day 8-10am and after the work day 5-7pm Are we focused on specific types of drivers? American commuters. Private drivers going to and from work What is Google's goal? Increase engagement with google services Roadmap for interviewer: User--> Pain Points-->Solution--> Vision-->Features-->Tradeoffs User American commuters. Private drivers going to and from work Can't be too distracted even durin"
Kwabena B. - "Clarification Define rush hour? hours leading up to the work day 8-10am and after the work day 5-7pm Are we focused on specific types of drivers? American commuters. Private drivers going to and from work What is Google's goal? Increase engagement with google services Roadmap for interviewer: User--> Pain Points-->Solution--> Vision-->Features-->Tradeoffs User American commuters. Private drivers going to and from work Can't be too distracted even durin"See full answer
Product Design
Asked at Google • 5 years ago
How would you improve Google's recruiting system to reduce false negatives?
Execution
Product Design
11 answers
+8
"Why is this important? Human capital is the core competitive advantage for technology companies, especially Google. Making the best hire for a given position vs not at scale can mean hours of lost productivity with significant monetary implications. The corollary to a false negative is also a false positive. Assuming that the goal is to hire the best candidate for a given job, the fact that the right person was not hired means the less than the right person for the job was. Impact : Delta"
Sukriti C. - "Why is this important? Human capital is the core competitive advantage for technology companies, especially Google. Making the best hire for a given position vs not at scale can mean hours of lost productivity with significant monetary implications. The corollary to a false negative is also a false positive. Assuming that the goal is to hire the best candidate for a given job, the fact that the right person was not hired means the less than the right person for the job was. Impact : Delta"See full answer
Execution
Product Design
Asked at Google • 5 years ago
Tell me about a non-technology product you recently purchased and loved. What do you love about it, and what would you change? Imagine its capabilities 50 years in the future.
Product Design
Add answer
Product Design
Asked at Google • 5 years ago
Design a ride-hailing app for the blind.
Product Design
1 answer
"Clarifying questions Key value proposition of the product: an app that the blind can use to hail taxi service. User type: fully blind people, based in the USA. Form Factor: Mobile app for iOS and Android Target market Mobility is a basic human need. Currently, blind people are either dependent on others OR have to compromise on being mobile. -> Importance of problem is high People need to visit multiple places in a day: work, leisure activities, social life etc. --> the frequency of"
Rahul J. - "Clarifying questions Key value proposition of the product: an app that the blind can use to hail taxi service. User type: fully blind people, based in the USA. Form Factor: Mobile app for iOS and Android Target market Mobility is a basic human need. Currently, blind people are either dependent on others OR have to compromise on being mobile. -> Importance of problem is high People need to visit multiple places in a day: work, leisure activities, social life etc. --> the frequency of"See full answer
Product Design
Asked at Google, Microsoft • 5 years ago
Design an alarm clock for blind people.
Product Design
13 answers
+10
"Design an alarm clock for blind people Clarifying question: Does it have to be a physical product or software? Your call Do I need to think about the long-term implications of the product from a strategy perspective or a single product? single product What are the metrics this company will focus on? Engagement What industry are we in? (start-up, google/Amazon, etc) - Startup What do we mean by blind? - ppl who cannot see anything, or people who still have sense of"
Manu G. - "Design an alarm clock for blind people Clarifying question: Does it have to be a physical product or software? Your call Do I need to think about the long-term implications of the product from a strategy perspective or a single product? single product What are the metrics this company will focus on? Engagement What industry are we in? (start-up, google/Amazon, etc) - Startup What do we mean by blind? - ppl who cannot see anything, or people who still have sense of"See full answer
Product Design
Asked at Google • 5 years ago
If you have infinite resources and the year is 2025, how would you improve Google Translate?
Product Design
9 answers
+6
"Great question, I’ll take a moment to organize my thoughts before answering - Sure I have a few clarification questions and some assumptions - Go ahead 5 years and infinite resources, I have no constraints in terms of making technology advancements - Yes, no constraint I’ll focus on improving the lives of people and changing the ways people use Google Translate and may expand the use to different products.. not just existing interface - Cool Let's take a step back and think why people nee"
Vaibhav B. - "Great question, I’ll take a moment to organize my thoughts before answering - Sure I have a few clarification questions and some assumptions - Go ahead 5 years and infinite resources, I have no constraints in terms of making technology advancements - Yes, no constraint I’ll focus on improving the lives of people and changing the ways people use Google Translate and may expand the use to different products.. not just existing interface - Cool Let's take a step back and think why people nee"See full answer
Product Design
Asked at Google • 5 years ago
Design a convenience store for a retirement home.
Product Design
4 answers
+1
"Clarifying Questions: How far is the retirement home from the convenience store? What part of the world is this convenience store located in? Will this be designed for Boomer generation or later generations when they retire? We assume that the convenience store is right next door, is located in the US in a very suburban location, and is designed for the Boomer generation that is retired/retiring Users: We assume retirement homes, or assisted living facilities take in folks who"
Anonymous Parakeet - "Clarifying Questions: How far is the retirement home from the convenience store? What part of the world is this convenience store located in? Will this be designed for Boomer generation or later generations when they retire? We assume that the convenience store is right next door, is located in the US in a very suburban location, and is designed for the Boomer generation that is retired/retiring Users: We assume retirement homes, or assisted living facilities take in folks who"See full answer
Product Design
Asked at Google • 5 years ago
Design a product that increases fruit consumption in the US.
Product Design
2 answers
"Clarification Question What kind of product is a software product or hardware product? Who are we a tech company or Google, how does it is fit into google's mission? Constraint or something? The goal is of adoption User persona Parents of kIds who don't want to eat fruits Young working professional who is busy in their life and they don't have the habit or they forget to eat fruits and vegetables Health enthusiast and Yoga teacher who is very keen to see different kinds of fruits"
Anonymous Muskox - "Clarification Question What kind of product is a software product or hardware product? Who are we a tech company or Google, how does it is fit into google's mission? Constraint or something? The goal is of adoption User persona Parents of kIds who don't want to eat fruits Young working professional who is busy in their life and they don't have the habit or they forget to eat fruits and vegetables Health enthusiast and Yoga teacher who is very keen to see different kinds of fruits"See full answer
Product Design
Asked at Google, Meta, WhatsApp • 3 years ago
How would you monetize WhatsApp?
Sales Representative
Product Design
+1 more
28 answers
+25
"Candidate: Before we go ahead I have a few clarifying questions, I’d like to ask. Interviewer: Sure. Candidate: Just to clarify, we would like to improve WhatsApp and our goal is to earn revenue from it. Is that true? Interviewer: Yes, that is true. Candidate: Great, WhatsApp currently has 3 different plans. 1) Private WhatsApp 2) WhatsApp Business for small B2C businesses 3) WhatsApp Business API, for medium and large B2C businesses. I know that the 3’rd category"
Jasmin R. - "Candidate: Before we go ahead I have a few clarifying questions, I’d like to ask. Interviewer: Sure. Candidate: Just to clarify, we would like to improve WhatsApp and our goal is to earn revenue from it. Is that true? Interviewer: Yes, that is true. Candidate: Great, WhatsApp currently has 3 different plans. 1) Private WhatsApp 2) WhatsApp Business for small B2C businesses 3) WhatsApp Business API, for medium and large B2C businesses. I know that the 3’rd category"See full answer
Sales Representative
Product Design
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