Google Product Manager Interview Questions

Vivan B. - "Feedback would much appreciated as I have not practiced many product strategy questions Clarifying questions Can we assume this is the first time Google has entered the elevator market? Or are there prior elevators to this one? Let's assume first time Is this a large elevator for industrial use like heavy goods/freight etc. or is it an elevator for apartment blocks and commercial premises? Let's assume passenger elevator Is there a geography for this launch? Let's assume the US"See full answer

Atit P. - "I'd start by clarifying the purpose of the in-flight experience. Get more travelers? (adoption) Reduce customer churn? (retention) Gain additional revenue? (revenue) Lets say we want to offer an in-flight experience that drives revenue. It is intuitive that, customer expectations for an in-flight experience will vary based on the duration of the flights: Short haul flights (1 hour or less): Self-help options are better suited. While seating may be important, a slight inconvenience for"See full answer

Tian H. - "google photos: edit, organize, search, and backup your photos. both android and iOS users can use google photos. together with the google drive, users can have 15 gigabytes free storage. photos market: main competitor, apple photos. this is a relatively mature market with two biggest players. when evaluating the acquisition, retention/engagement, rev, we would focus more on the retention. Higher retention and more usage are also strong signals of upgrading to larger storage and rev growth. "See full answer

Kirubel D. - "Clarifying Questions (Noun, verb, and adjective) Pixel The Pixel Phone or are we talking about ore on the software? Hardware or SoftwareINT: This can be applied to both areas Best Compared to other related phones on the market? And do we have a specific time frame in mind?INT: we don’t really have a specific time frame maybe within the next couple of years. Best means comparing to other phones out there. Market Best when it comes to a particular feature or overall the user experience within"See full answer

Srini K. - "performance issues and sudden spikes on input requests by scaling techniques and optimization."See full answer

Dewansh Z. - "It's fair to assume a tech lead is an experienced person, especially in bigger organizations like Google. How we shape our thought process is part of our past experiences of default nature. I will first give it some time before I react/respond. I will try to understand the pattern where the tech lead is being devil's advocate. Eg. If he is being negative about PRD everytime, that means he had past experiences where the PRD was incomplete or scope was change; if is negative about testing scena"See full answer

Aniruddha N. - "To determine which features go into a Minimum Viable Product (MVP), I focus on balancing user needs with business goals, while keeping technical feasibility in mind. My approach usually includes these key steps: 1. Understand the problem deeply: I start by identifying the core user problem we’re solving—whether that’s through user interviews, support tickets, usage data, or stakeholder input. The goal is to figure out what success looks like for the user in the most basic but valuable form."See full answer

Pooja G. - "Goal: Maps should reflect reality of places especially with places like hospitals Ecosystem : Maps User Usecases: Daily Commute Explore places Critical situations like emergency - hospital visits, work emergencies, family Businesses using Google Business Profile: Medical & Health Hospitals Clinics Gyms Restaurants Salons Mom & Pop stores, SMB - Retail Enterprises These can be online, physical or both Local guides Downstream usecases for other google products: Google Search Google Gemini "See full answer

Cameron P. - "Assuming I am a PM for company X and my current task for the morning is resolving a new conflicting product requirement. First I would like to inquire more about the product and about the conflict. Product: Assuming I am new and I didn’t already know what the product was, what is our product's value proposition to our customers? How does our product align with our company's goals? What does success look like for our product? Have we been successful in the past? Who are our customers? Conflict"See full answer

Kartikeya N. - "Clarifying questions Do we mean the Google Play store or Apple App store or some other app store? : Google Play Store Do we mean to calculate the number of apps as in 2024? : yes Are we looking at any particular data slices like in a particular country/ for a particular geography etc.? : No, I want the overall global number And we mean to calculate total number of apps that are registered on Play Store and can be searched and accessed by a user, am i right? : Yes Okay, here's how"See full answer

Praveen - "I will start with discussing the Google mission statement, which is to organize the world's information and make it easily accessible to everyone to help them get things done, and make their day a bit easier. I will think about building something that will leapfrog this mission. Google has already organized all of the world's public digital information in the current state. There are opportunities to get more information into a digital form. But there are also significant improvements in mak"See full answer

Coach - "Great question Evan, could you please help me with some context. Do you want me to consider Gsuite & Gmail on consumer or limit it to one or the other segment? Limit to B2C on GMAIL Promotions/ Notifications do you want me to include them? Exclude Would you want to consider only Gmail ecosystem or Gmail to All types of users? Any email recipient I would like to start with US as a geo and extrapolate would you be good with that? That's ok. That helps, than"See full answer

Tanu M. - "Clarifying Questions : Am I the PM at google ? Yes, For which country Airport are we designing this? Lets assume its a new product so we will design it for the US airports and later expand to other countries. GTM : When do we need to launch this product? Do we have any time constraints ? Lets assume one year I am assuming why google wants to enter in this space is because it is an untapped market and google can revolutionize the market with some of the most emerging tehnologies by e"See full answer

Mitchell K. - "How important are referrals? Do you need multiple vs. just one? Does it matter who refers you?"See full answer

Glados - "Clarifying questions 1/ Any other products in VC portfolio I need to be aware of - "no" 2/ Market focus? - "no" Started off by stating database marketing 1/ SQL 2/ NoSQL Data models mostly relational Database trends 1/ Vector databases 2/ Growth in cloud / fully managed databases 3/ Multi cloud is important to avoid vendor lock in Ultimately Price/performance is king Competition 1/ Large cloud providers - AWS/GCP/Azure 2/ Legacy databases - Oracle/SQL Server 3/ Niche players - Vitess, Coc"See full answer

Puneet A. - "I recently had an experience with the Chipotle mobile app where I accidentally placed an extra order. Realizing my mistake within seconds, I tried to edit or cancel the order but found no option to do so in the app. Despite searching FAQs and attempting to contact the local store, I couldn't resolve the issue in time. This experience highlighted the importance of user-friendly design and clear communication in apps. If I were managing such a product, I would advocate for features like a grace pe"See full answer

Push S. - "STAR story weaved around the project 0 to 1 execution with all the technical tradeoffs, issues, and success metrics involved."See full answer

David E. - "Its enough that I shared the question. Im not going to tell you how I answered. If you dont know how to answer, then this isn't the job or company for you. Sorry."See full answer

David P. - "delete"See full answer