Recent Google Interview Questions

Joel J. - "Put a screen on it. Core needs of fridge: Maintain a cool temperature to prevent food from going bad. Store ice or cold water or products that may melt. These jobs have to be done efficiently, conveniently and safely. Efficiency can be done by addressing Coefficient of Performance and Cost of energy. Convenience can be done by easy organization and access to items. Safety can be attributed to food safety or working condition of fridge. Our product innovation would be to add a sc"See full answer

Arthur Y. - "Clarifying Questions: Clarify scenario My assumed answer: I walk through example flow of family watching YT via Chromecast on parent’s account, then an adult-themed video auto-plays What is goal? My assumed answer: From the prompt, the immediate goal is to prevent inappropriate videos from playing at inappropriate times. At a higher-level, since Google/YT has such a high market penetration % already, the goal is retention of existing users and not having them stop usin"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

Tim W. - "Clarify "What do you mean by favorite product? Are you thinking specifically hardware, software, or a feature within those, or something non-electronic? Dealer's Choice. "Are you asking why I love this product, or to explain why this product is a market leader independent of how i feel about it? Talk about why YOU love this product. Rephrase Question With all that in mind, i want to rephrase the question. "What is your favorite software product and what features in this product"See full answer

Anjan - "Clarifying Questions: Platforms - Is it a web-based, mobile-based, or both? = Picking both For payment are we partnering with other providers like paypal, stripe? = assuming yes Partnering with shipping companies for shipment ? Is it online delivery? or just pick up within local markets? Expected number of daily users? Users: Sellers: People who sell fruits or vegetables or both Buyers: People who buy fruits and vegetables Note: For product design, I would just focu"See full answer

Ashvini B. - "Clarifying Questions: What's the goal of this feature? I am assuming the goal is to improve the experience. 2) Are we focused on any specific brand? Tesla, Waymo? - I am assuming in general 3) Market - US 4) For the purpose of this question, I am assuming elf-driving cars are fully safe/autonomous and doesn't need any attention from the users to reach from point A to B. Revised problem statement - Design a feature for self-driving cars to improve the experience. User-segments: People who use i"See full answer

Namrata L. - "Design a concert ticketing service Clarifying questions Concerting ticket service as in a service which will take care of booking the concert and checking them at the entrance. That's it right? When we say concert, what scale are we talking about? Will we include one-room stand up shows as well or just the big concerts? Mostly on big concerts. Can expand later. Who are we? Are we a third party app or we deal with managing artists? Third party Why are we doing this? Solve the gaps and in"See full answer

Talles S. - "Me: thanks for the question, let me ask a few clarification questions if that's ok. Are those both personal and business users of Gmail? Interviewer: you can consider only the personal ones. Me: perfect, by personal ones, you mean the ones with [email protected], right? Interviewer: yes. Me: right, thank you. Also, are we considering e-mail users that use the Gmail platform or anyone who has a @gmail.com type of e-mail? Interviewer: anyone that has a @gmail.com e-mail. Me: Ok, finally, last"See full answer

Darren L. - "First I will set up the formula, second I will calculate each of the components then adding them up. Finally, I will talk about corner cases if any. 1, To begin with, I want to think broadly what could go into the equation. Bandwidth depends on number of devices at a time, so if a student use both laptop and phone at the same time then we have 2. Beside, grad students need internet for various reasons, such as checking email, searching on Google for information, watching lectures... Different a"See full answer

Adam C. - "Five to ten"See full answer

Panchali C. - "Questions I would ask the interviewer Are we considering only single owners or jointly homeowners? Do we consider people who are only buying, or do we consider gifted or inherited properties from parents or families? Fully paid or partially paid. To first explain my approach, I would consider the following assumptions: Total Population of the United States: 330 mn Millennials is considered between the age group of 19 to 35 years of age Population who are in the medium income gr"See full answer

Ananya M. - "US population = 330M , 80M across 4 generations population that is physically able to travel, can afford travel, travels for business ranges between 20-60 year olds = 160M calculating maximum demand: long weekends in summer are peak travel times, lets assume 60% of population who are able and can afford travel, do so during long weekend = 0.6x160M lets say 60% of this population choses prefers domestic travel while 40% go international (consider Mexico, Canada, London are international"See full answer

Niaz - "Clarification questions: Does this include Street view photos, which includes (roads & highways, underwater & insider building and walking street view photos) ? No, for this question we will only look at photos taken via satellites. Google earth photographs the entire earth including land and oceans ? Yes Components of the equation (Square mile covering land x Number of photos per sq mile x Size of each photo x cost) + (Square mile covering ocean x Number of photos per"See full answer

JD - "Questions: What is the purpose of the scooters? (commuting in between office buildings or zipping across on the floor or for employees to be able to get to locations nearby e.g. lunch, coffee ) Is the entire workforce in the same building or multiple buildings? If the employees in multiple buildings how far apart are they? Where are the offices located? (lousy weather would mean more employees using scooters to save time and a more convenient transport) Estimation: Planning for highes"See full answer

Jasmin R. - "Candidate: Before we go ahead I have a few clarifying questions, I’d like to ask. Interviewer: Sure. Candidate: What is the exact definition of a restaurant, are we counting coffee shops, bars, street food trolleys, homemade food shops that only has delivery to customers’ place and etc... kinds of a restaurant as well? Interviewer: let’s assume that we only mean restaurants that people can go inside, order some food and eat. Let’s not consider bars and coffee shops and so"See full answer

Anonymous Puma - "Assuming for the US Segment by size of businessNumber of employees per business sizePrice per employee=Revenue Price per employee should decrease with a larger employee base. 30M businesses in the US Small Business 60% of businesses are small=18M Average number of employees=50 Price per employee=$5 Small Business Revenue=$2.7B Medium Business 30% of them are medium=9M Average number of employees=1000 Price per employee=$3 Medium Business Revenue=$8.1B Large Business 10% of th"See full answer

Kwabena B. - "Assumptions This estimation will not take into consideration service fees, delivery fees, or tips we are specifically interested in consumer purchases of fruits and vegetables from local grocers (i.e. instacart, peapod, wholefoods/primenow, etc.) Fresh and frozen produce are in scope Equation NYC annual online produce purchases = (Num NYC households) x (% pop. that purchase produce online) x ($ spent on online produce purchases) (NYC HH) = 300M Americans --> 100M HH"See full answer

Sumeet R. - "Clarifying Questions: Assume US Audience or Worldwide? US Only Assume short form content or long form content ? Assume all Premium or Ads Support ? All Solution: US Population 300M Will remove 70 ages as not relevant audience or not have access to YouTube = 60m Leaving 240M. Adoption of YouTube with remaining Population = 60% (including overlap and exclusion with other services e.g. Netflix) Total Audience that watches YouTube daily = 144m (about half of US Populat"See full answer