Top Google Interview Questions

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  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    Video answer for 'How would you improve Google Drive?'

    "User Persona Individual heavy Users Casual users Enterprise Users Occasional Users I would like to think more about the Enterprise users, because they are the power users and the maximum revenue of the Google may come up with the enterprise solutions. It is my hypothesis that despite of improvement of the Google drive, common individual users are highly unlikely to use the premium version of the G Suite User Journey of the person using Google Drive Want to work on the new document"

    Anonymous Muskox - "User Persona Individual heavy Users Casual users Enterprise Users Occasional Users I would like to think more about the Enterprise users, because they are the power users and the maximum revenue of the Google may come up with the enterprise solutions. It is my hypothesis that despite of improvement of the Google drive, common individual users are highly unlikely to use the premium version of the G Suite User Journey of the person using Google Drive Want to work on the new document"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • +10

    "Google mission is to organize worlds information and make it universally accessible and useful. Keeping that in mind will focus on what should be the solve for emerging market. Clarification: Any specific country Google is thinking about ? Answer: lets say Ghana it has come often as one of the fast emerging markets and untapped Clarification: Goal is monetization or growth Answer: We are entering the market so growth Based on the clarification above I will think about user segments, p"

    Sumeet R. - "Google mission is to organize worlds information and make it universally accessible and useful. Keeping that in mind will focus on what should be the solve for emerging market. Clarification: Any specific country Google is thinking about ? Answer: lets say Ghana it has come often as one of the fast emerging markets and untapped Clarification: Goal is monetization or growth Answer: We are entering the market so growth Based on the clarification above I will think about user segments, p"See full answer

    Product Strategy
  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    +8

    "This is a great question! If you don't mind, I'd love to list 3 strengths and weaknesses then dive a little deeper on one of each of them. I think my three greatest strengths are: Empathy Openness to feedback Drive And three weaknesses I have been working to strengthen are: Sometimes my desire to achieve can put me at risk of overcommitting Communicating status to the right stakeholders at the appropriate time Creating detailed and strategic lists of priorities so I can meet th"

    Adam M. - "This is a great question! If you don't mind, I'd love to list 3 strengths and weaknesses then dive a little deeper on one of each of them. I think my three greatest strengths are: Empathy Openness to feedback Drive And three weaknesses I have been working to strengthen are: Sometimes my desire to achieve can put me at risk of overcommitting Communicating status to the right stakeholders at the appropriate time Creating detailed and strategic lists of priorities so I can meet th"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
    +3 more
  • Google logoAsked at Google 

    "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"

    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

    Product Manager
    Product Strategy
    +1 more
  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    +9

    "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"

    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

    Software Engineer
    Technical
    +2 more
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  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    +8

    "Clarification Questions What does it mean by Next Gen Elevator? → Next Gen Elevator means Elevator using new technologies. Where is this Elevator situated? → Skyscrapers, Commercial Buildings, Residential Buildings or Elevators to Space? Assuming it’s Commercial Buildings. What is the Goal of Making Next Gen Elevators? Is it improving Safety? User Experience? Assuming it’s User Experience _Goal: To design an elevator using emerging technologies to improve user experience in a C"

    Anonymous Muskox - "Clarification Questions What does it mean by Next Gen Elevator? → Next Gen Elevator means Elevator using new technologies. Where is this Elevator situated? → Skyscrapers, Commercial Buildings, Residential Buildings or Elevators to Space? Assuming it’s Commercial Buildings. What is the Goal of Making Next Gen Elevators? Is it improving Safety? User Experience? Assuming it’s User Experience _Goal: To design an elevator using emerging technologies to improve user experience in a C"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    Video answer for 'Write functions to serialize and deserialize a list of strings.'
    +4

    "Maybe we can use this solution: 1, connect all the strings together, and add an integer value ahead each string. 2, use Huffmans algorithm to encode the step 1 result, to make the result size smaller. 3, return the root of Huffmans tree. This solution man be slower than the common serialize method, but it can save a lot of memory, I think, at lease doing serialize is mainly for tranfering data or storing data."

    Jordan Z. - "Maybe we can use this solution: 1, connect all the strings together, and add an integer value ahead each string. 2, use Huffmans algorithm to encode the step 1 result, to make the result size smaller. 3, return the root of Huffmans tree. This solution man be slower than the common serialize method, but it can save a lot of memory, I think, at lease doing serialize is mainly for tranfering data or storing data."See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Coding
    +1 more
  • +15

    "Clarifying Travellers in this context are people who are taking domestic or international flights. Answer: Correct. Are we designing to integrate into an existing product line or completely standalone? Answer: Integrate into existing products. Are we designing for a specific geography? Answer: Let’s try North America first; we can expand later. Company Mission Organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Company Strategy "

    Darpan D. - "Clarifying Travellers in this context are people who are taking domestic or international flights. Answer: Correct. Are we designing to integrate into an existing product line or completely standalone? Answer: Integrate into existing products. Are we designing for a specific geography? Answer: Let’s try North America first; we can expand later. Company Mission Organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Company Strategy "See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
    +1 more
  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    Video answer for 'Design a high-tech gym.'
    +1

    "[2:53 pm, 02/12/2021] Mayank: Before we deep dive into brainstorming the solution I go ahead and make few assumptions for clarifying questions: Step-1- Framing a problem 🎯Why users go to gym? To relieve stress by doing exercise To maintain their body To reduce their weight To remain active To make good physique 🎯Who goes to gym? Couples Group of friends Individuals Here we are trying to design high tech gym so it means we are looking to create good experience-and"

    Mayank S. - "[2:53 pm, 02/12/2021] Mayank: Before we deep dive into brainstorming the solution I go ahead and make few assumptions for clarifying questions: Step-1- Framing a problem 🎯Why users go to gym? To relieve stress by doing exercise To maintain their body To reduce their weight To remain active To make good physique 🎯Who goes to gym? Couples Group of friends Individuals Here we are trying to design high tech gym so it means we are looking to create good experience-and"See full answer

    Data Engineer
    Product Design
  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    +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 Strategy
    Product Design
  • Google logoAsked at Google 

    "Any more details about this can make it easy"

    Srinivasa R. - "Any more details about this can make it easy"See full answer

    System Design
    Product Design
  • +5

    "The key here is a) not to overreact to Sales bypassing me going straight to Engineering (while understanding every team acts according to their incentives), and b) communicate with all parties as much as possible to get everyone on the same page. 1) First, I'd speak to Sales and understand the feature being requested. I consider Sales to be one of the most important primary research funnels - they have direct, regular touchpoints with the client and are finely attuned to the lifeblood o"

    Sachin P. - "The key here is a) not to overreact to Sales bypassing me going straight to Engineering (while understanding every team acts according to their incentives), and b) communicate with all parties as much as possible to get everyone on the same page. 1) First, I'd speak to Sales and understand the feature being requested. I consider Sales to be one of the most important primary research funnels - they have direct, regular touchpoints with the client and are finely attuned to the lifeblood o"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
    +5 more
  • "Any answer after this video won't compare. Not an expert. With that caveat out of the way, here is my answer I'd break this work into different phases = Discovery Phase, Planning Phase, Execution Phase, Monitoring phase, Ongoing Discovery : How many Products does this enterprise have? Are we talking about internally developed Products that we sell in the market place? or also third party Products that our enterprise has purchased for internal use? Should we include Operating Systems, net"

    Adib M. - "Any answer after this video won't compare. Not an expert. With that caveat out of the way, here is my answer I'd break this work into different phases = Discovery Phase, Planning Phase, Execution Phase, Monitoring phase, Ongoing Discovery : How many Products does this enterprise have? Are we talking about internally developed Products that we sell in the market place? or also third party Products that our enterprise has purchased for internal use? Should we include Operating Systems, net"See full answer

    Program Sense
  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    +8

    " Honestly, the first question should be can you please explain the question in detail. Below is my breakdown of this question What kind of furniture market? Online or store-based? Will Google produce the furniture or will it be an aggregator? Once understood let us ask more clarifying questions Why does Google wanna get into this space? Is it to increase revenue or engagement? Is there a region that Google is thinking of starting in? I**s there a problem to be solved? What is the motivation"

    Ekta M. - " Honestly, the first question should be can you please explain the question in detail. Below is my breakdown of this question What kind of furniture market? Online or store-based? Will Google produce the furniture or will it be an aggregator? Once understood let us ask more clarifying questions Why does Google wanna get into this space? Is it to increase revenue or engagement? Is there a region that Google is thinking of starting in? I**s there a problem to be solved? What is the motivation"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Strategy
  • +4

    "Weak point: suggested something that YouTube Music already does- offering the service free to Premium members. Rebounded by saying the lack of user awareness is a pain point and how it can be mitigated- by frequent check-ins by way of notifications and emails Strong point: discussed overall strategies of global expansion, marketing and innovation with pros and cons for each approach. Settled on discussing an innovation piece combining ranked recommendation of YouTube music as well as personaliz"

    Jazmia H. - "Weak point: suggested something that YouTube Music already does- offering the service free to Premium members. Rebounded by saying the lack of user awareness is a pain point and how it can be mitigated- by frequent check-ins by way of notifications and emails Strong point: discussed overall strategies of global expansion, marketing and innovation with pros and cons for each approach. Settled on discussing an innovation piece combining ranked recommendation of YouTube music as well as personaliz"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    +12

    "Clarifying Questions Are we building feature for YouTube Music/YouTube Video? -> YT Video has higher scope of user engagement so YT Video. YT Video has 2 forms of video content, are we focusing on long form, short form or am I free to chose ? -> YT Shorts and short videos have taken off lately so focus on it. Do we have a specific business goal with regards to building this feature ? -> We want to improve engagement. Do we want to build this feature for a specific kind of audience or"

    Mehul K. - "Clarifying Questions Are we building feature for YouTube Music/YouTube Video? -> YT Video has higher scope of user engagement so YT Video. YT Video has 2 forms of video content, are we focusing on long form, short form or am I free to chose ? -> YT Shorts and short videos have taken off lately so focus on it. Do we have a specific business goal with regards to building this feature ? -> We want to improve engagement. Do we want to build this feature for a specific kind of audience or"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • Google logoAsked at Google 

    "I set the context by stating that this specific program is not complex for technical reasons, but for the nature of how it was set up. Spoke about a scenario where one of the programs was at risk due security and legal compliance's. And how did I carry that program forward."

    Anonymous Mockingbird - "I set the context by stating that this specific program is not complex for technical reasons, but for the nature of how it was set up. Spoke about a scenario where one of the programs was at risk due security and legal compliance's. And how did I carry that program forward."See full answer

    Technical Program Manager
    Behavioral
    +1 more
  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    +1

    "delete"

    David P. - "delete"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
    +1 more
  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    Video answer for 'How would you improve YouTube for content creators?'

    "Users: Creators We can segment by category of videos made (ie. beauty, entertainment, etc.) We could also segment by age range. Let's just choose self-development channels Pain points: Want to bring you to their website Solution. Portal to their website. Whenever you click on the video, a tab pops up for their website. But, this could be annoying for viewers. Back to the drawing board. What if we made creators into viewers. I am a FinTech Product Manager"

    Andrew M. - "Users: Creators We can segment by category of videos made (ie. beauty, entertainment, etc.) We could also segment by age range. Let's just choose self-development channels Pain points: Want to bring you to their website Solution. Portal to their website. Whenever you click on the video, a tab pops up for their website. But, this could be annoying for viewers. Back to the drawing board. What if we made creators into viewers. I am a FinTech Product Manager"See full answer

    Product Design
    App Critique
  • "Okay so the objective is to describe a product which I think is poorly designed despite of what market sentiments are around this and how the product is performing currently. Okay understood, so the way I would like to go about it is first I will state what are the factors which I look in a product to tell it is a good product. Then will see how a particular product doesn’t follow this and that's why I called it a poorly designed product. For me a product is great if it is having these qualities"

    Anonymous Muskox - "Okay so the objective is to describe a product which I think is poorly designed despite of what market sentiments are around this and how the product is performing currently. Okay understood, so the way I would like to go about it is first I will state what are the factors which I look in a product to tell it is a good product. Then will see how a particular product doesn’t follow this and that's why I called it a poorly designed product. For me a product is great if it is having these qualities"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
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