Google Interview Questions

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

Utkarsh G. - "Clarify: Map means -> coordinates Places -> any location visitable by humans software/hardware? -> up to you unmapped by anyone or in Gmaps? -> not in Gmaps Goal: to widen coverage constraints -> none market - US Time to market -> 3-6 months Why Aligns with Google mission Drive more engagement Users Company Users who drop locations Big City dwellers Country side areas Remote areas with limited internet End users Advertisers Prioritise: siz"See full answer

Ashish G. - "Rate Limiter is to limit the number of request from a particular IP Address. Rate limiter will block the IP address to reduce the load on server. It should be highly available and handle concurrent requests. Blocked IP addresses should be kept in a pool which is present in shared cache. We need to keep threshold value after it reaches threshold value it should start blocking IP address. All these ip address to be kept in No SQL DB. Batch will run that will clear the cache and delete all the bloc"See full answer

Mark G. - "Situation: At my previous company, we had more than 200 different data sources across 15 business units. These included CRM systems, marketing platforms, HR databases, and even third-party data feeds. The problem was that each team was managing data in its own way. This created inconsistent privacy controls, data quality issues, and compliance gaps, all of which were becoming urgent ahead of a major regulatory audit. Task: I was given the responsibility of implementing a unified data governance"See full answer

Siddharth P. - "I believe these are the traits of a great PM. I see PM to be somone who is a great manager of customer problems and for that he/she has to be: Be an expert at the one domain and know the customer of the product in that domain and curate experiences for them better than the competition. Be persuasive - Get things done by convincing rather than commanding. Learn how great products are by being an engineer. Be a fearless leader by championing teams ideas all the way to the management la"See full answer

Anonymous Prawn - "Would be better to adjust resolution in the video player directly."See full answer

Adarsh S. - "Thanks for the question! This is one of my favourite topics because it’s at the core of what we do as PMs DAILY: making the complex simple to drive alignment. I’ve got a structured way to approach this, and I’ll use it to explain payment aggregators - like Plaid - and how they enable Open Banking, with a twist about a technical hiccup I’ve seen in practice. Let’s dive in. I start by assessing the audience. Say I’m talking to a marketing manager at Transak - someone sharp but not techni"See full answer

Ahmed A. - "He was really all over the place ? couldnt detect a structure to his answer felt like he was talking out of experience ."See full answer

Bk - "Clarification: By Improvement we could delve into either improving Monetization, User Engagement, Experience or Retention. Project Goal: In particular letz focus on improving User Engagement/Experience which may also pave way into monetizing - cuz the way I see it is to put out multiple configurations /packages in the market, and allow users to choose and pay for the services. Its as simple as hiring a full time assistant vs part time. U pay for the service rendered. **Product Vision"See full answer

Karthik T. - "In our product portfolio there were many teams and we were almost 12 product managers interacting closely to deliver the entire product feature area. Situation was that we were frequently had defects come in which will result in defects pushed back and forth. Goal was to avoid this as SLA of defects was getting impacted immensely there were priority 2 defects which we were sitting for couple of weeks before being looked at. There was a need to establish a triaging process. Along with my leaders"See full answer

Amy M. - "Clarifying questions: Do we want to focus on front end or backend? Front end Do we want to focus on any particular platform? For ex: Site, mobile, apps Interviewer: Desktop Is there anything tools on gmail that you'd like me to focus on? For ex: Meet, Hangouts, Notes Interviewer: Just the main product Are there any specific product buckets that you'd like me to go through? For ex: Sign up flows, login flows, security, product experience, sign out flow, recommend"See full answer

Jacob C. - "Clarifying Qns: Did the watch time went down and comments went up for the same videos or are we saying total watch time and total comments on Youtube? (Total) I am assuming we are not including Youtube Live videos because those are typically live chat 1000’s of comments for a single video. (Correct) Do we know if these two could be independent problems not correlated with each other (No) Here is my approach to diagnose the root cause: Will look at some general trends first Intern"See full answer

Pramod V. - "Referring to https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/2022/03/23/15-strategies-for-balancing-competing-stakeholder-priorities/?sh=7c82aa68262f Understand the conflicting priorities and align it with the goal/ objectives and the company mission. Start with the Least Common Denominator between the conflicting priorities to come to a commonality and start from there to objectively approach the next imp priority Always keep communication on and be transparent with 'equality' an"See full answer

J R. - "These are a set of utilities used to manage the heap memory as part of an application. The C standard library implements these functions. malloc(bytes) takes a number of bytes and returns a pointer to the start of the allocated buffer. If the allocation failed, a null pointer is returned instead. calloc(count, size) behaves like malloc(count * size), but also zero-initializes the allocated buffer, assuming the allocation succeeded. realloc(ptr, size) takes a pointer to a previously al"See full answer

S V. - "I think, robots.txt file is provided by websites which web-crawler is crawling. Am I wrong somewhere or missing some context?"See full answer

Ben G. - "Situation - A time I dealt with conflict while on a team was while I was working at Shopify on physical and digital gift card refund point of sale solutions. The situation was that we were dealing with complex technical constraints including not changing particular UI components behavior to act as they should be intended. On the refund screen, the existing design was using a toggle on the same screen to bring up a modal for gift card selection to either select digital or physical options. Thi"See full answer

Carlos S. - "1) Clarifications Is this a Google initiative? Yes Timeline for development? MVP within 3 months. Hotel type? Focus on urban and mid-sized hotels Items to offer? Include ready-to-eat meals/snacks (e.g., microwaveable food, healthy snacks, beverages). Geographic scope? Launch in the US only. 2) Google Mission / Why "Organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful." Google aims to enhance the guest experienc"See full answer

Prabhav G. - "Assumptions and Clarifications! 1 . What is the aim? increase monetization or to just provide easy accessible food for customers 2.What are the supposed items to be available in the vending machines? 3.How many Vending Machines per hotel if more than 1 Can we add different items in the machines or are they supposed to be similar? 4.Which company is looking to Design this machine?Is it google? Or some other company? 5.These machines should they be available to paying guests or visitors or bot"See full answer

Anonymous Sparrow - "Clarifying question: may I assume that this would be for all new units that Roku would be selling? Ie. they wouldn't be sending new remotes to existing Roku customers? (assume interviewer agrees) Here's how I would approach this analysis: Identify purpose and value of this button for customers Identify the purpose and value for HBO/Max and Roku Posit: HBO should be willing to pay up to the value that HBO/Max gets minus potential discount by Roku for the value that Roku would get Pre"See full answer

Kartikeya N. - "Clarifying questions: What city/ country are we talking about? Indian metro. What all counts as a grocery store? Do have to cover dark stores as well which are not open to public? Only consider all grocery stores where public pick up is allowed. Do we have to include hyper markets/ super markets as well or only smaller stores? Include both. Okay, so I would be considering the Indian metro of Bangalore here. The overall equation is , **total number of grocery stores = Number of small grocer"See full answer