Google Interview Questions

Will P. - "There are several categories of ads that users may encounter on YouTube content pages, depending on the user's device and browser. To narrow the scope of my answer, I am going to assume this is a non-skippable, midroll video ad that is 15 seconds long, and shown to a non-premium desktop user in the US. The next step is to clarify the motivations behind the proposed feature. Are non-relevant ads harmful to the overall user satisfaction? Do users engage more with relevant ads? Are advertisers mak"See full answer

Bimal M. - "Clarification questions: What do you mean by online furniture-selling market? Why would google want to do it? Why does google want to do it now? Where does google want to launch it? Let me make the assumptions answering above questions: It is like google flights, say we call it google furnitures, where it organizes, curates furniture information to the users and then refers to the seller website instead of selling furniture directly to the consumer like amazon, walmart, way"See full answer

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

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

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

Karthik T. - "Clarifying questions : I would like to confirm what type of parking spots we are talking about, should we assume cars ? Assumption : Cars Is it referring to only parking spots in non-residential complexes or public places or does it include residential too ?Assumption : both Assumptions : Places where we could see parking spots Shopping malls Parking in the park Residence spots Legal parking spots Variables in play Population = assuming a family of 4 => population / 4 (nu"See full answer

Glados - "Ask clarifying questions 1/ Are there any business changes to be aware of? 2/ Youtube Premium already exists so I am guessing we are not revisiting changing the prices just restarting the process from scratch 3/ Pricing for a specific market? North America, Asia, somewhere else? To tackle this I would break down the problem into a few steps, What is Google's mission and how Youtube premium fits into that Google's mission is to organize information and make it accessible to all You"See full answer

Brandy L. - "Restaurant Types High-end Fast-food Regular User Types Restaurants – seeking operational efficiency and increased revenue. Customers – categorized by group size and dining intent: 2–4 Friends/Family – casual dining. Solo Diners – convenience and quick service. Groups > 4 – shared orders and split bills. Goal Design a tablet solution to achieve product-market fit by addressing key pain points and driving high ad"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

Karan K. - "2 Approaches: 1) The more intuitive approach is doing a multi-source BFS from all cats and storing the distance of closest cats. Then do a dfs/bfs from rat to bread. Time Complexity: O(mn + 4^L) where L is path length, worst case L could be mn Space Complexity: O(m*n) 2) The first approach should be fine for interviews. But if they ask to optimize it further, you can use Binary Search. Problems like "Finding max of min distance" or "Finding min of max" could be usually solved by BS. "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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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