Top Google Interview Questions

Harshita G. - "Is the "idea" I'm trying to sell something new or built off an existing service/product we offer? Interviewer: Let's assume new. Assuming it's a proper sit-down meeting with senior management to go over the proposal, here is what the slide deck would contain. Introduction/Description of the problem I'm trying to solve: Before proposing a solution, it is important to first identify the problem we're trying to solve. This section would contain the description of the problem/pain poi"See full answer

Priyansh J. - "By increasing the number of paid users, I assume we mean that we want to increase the % of DAUs who pay for YT Music. First, we need to understand the Youtube Music play here. Youtube Music was carved out of Youtube because Spotify and Apple Music were getting popular. Users were listening to music on Spotify instead of on Youtube, threatening ad revenue for Youtube. Therefore, Youtube Music was born as a standalone app, where users could listen to the music ad free from anywhere anytime. In"See full answer

Namu - "Provided an example from my work history where I asked to move the Go-live date to prevent launch date failure."See full answer

Umang S. - "Before diving into answering this, I would like to ask some clarifying questions - High Level - What is the mission, goal, target for this year for WhatsApp? Assumption answer - 10X growth in users Do we have any road map where we can see it with more details? Yes we wish, it is kind of all over the place Do you know how far we have come from the start of the year to achieve that target? Yeah we have done some progress but not much Which quarter are we in? 1"See full answer

Venkateswara reddy K. - "Form what I know I would state the following two points: Only 20% of google's $180B revenue comes from non-ad revenue sources. Google Cloud is a big part of Google's revenue diversification efforts. Google cloud at $13B is still under 10% of total revenue. Google cloud is at position 3 compared after Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure. Typically only top 2 platforms take majority of stake in a lot of businesses. Google Cloud's Goal: Become one of the top two Cloud platforms in the world by deep"See full answer

Akshai V. - "When are you talking about Sales Is the Number of Items that have dropped or GMV dropped ? If the GMV has dropped then clearly there is a drop in the Price of Items ? Is there any category or White Goods which have lead to decrease in the Price of Goods ? Is there a Long Term Promotion running By the Marketing and not because of it ? A customer Journey in a typical Market Place is that customer adds items to car Go To E-Commerce Site -----> Search--->Add Items to Bag"See full answer

Anonymous Krill - "Clarify the question. Any specific system? Will study the related systems in the environment. Will define the goal, attributes of the system, stakeholders expectations, problems this system is going to address in case these things don't exist already. With the above two steps, I Will come up with a draft of the System KPI. Will run it with leadership, stakeholders and will incorporate feedback. In parallel, will come up with quantification on these performance factors. Fina"See full answer

Amparo L. - "One time at Lifetime Fitness 2019, One student was throwing a lot of towels in the counter which made things very disorganized, then I made a compromise with my coworker to put 2 towels at a time and then it worked well because it made the workspace very organized."See full answer

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

Saurao D. - "How many shampoo bottles are sold in the US annually? Assumption: Shampoo for both male and female consumers Population of US (330Mn) Considering 50:50 Urban Rural breakdown Urban: 165Mn Rural: 165Mn Considering only 10% of Rural consumers will be using shampoo, which gives 16.5Mn people Urban: 165Mn Considering 50:50 Male Female breakdown Male: 82.5Mn Male consumers using shampoo: 60% = 49.5Mn Male consumers not using shampoo: 40% = 33Mn Female: 82.5Mn Female consumers using shampoo: 80%"See full answer

Vivek S. - "This question can be answered in two different ways: a. Strategic b. Product Sense Since , the question is which product you would work upon , it is likely a product strategy question , where interviewer is trying to find about how would you go about selecting the product to solve for. Another approach would be to clarify on the two approaches from the Interviewer. Can ask your hierarchy in PM role [ APM/PM/ Sr. PM / GPM ] and then approach this. Candidate : Do you have any specific goal"See full answer

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

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

Amishr - "For a mature product, I would do the following - Review the list of backlog items Meet with stakeholders and business owners to verify the relevance (are they still valid? esp. for new feature request) Break down the backlog list by a. Product improvements b. New features c. Operational Resiliency Do a 70-30 split with New features+Product Imp =70%, Resiliency =30% Prioritize by impact/scale and effort (team's capacity) by quarter Revisit Quarterly For a new product - Start"See full answer

Maulik S. - "To build a product using Generative AI (Gen AI), the process would involve multiple steps, from conceptualization to deployment. Here's a structured approach : 1. Identify the Problem or Opportunity Start with the need or opportunity: What problem do you want to solve? Is it to automate tasks, generate content, enhance creativity, or improve user experience? Example products:A content creation tool that generates blog posts or articles. A personalized customer support chatbot"See full answer

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

Ananya M. - "I am assuming current situation where public transport have restarted but uber pool is yet to start. Assuming it's Bay Area = I am considering internet penetration to be 100% . pop = 8 million (2M per age group) age group that would use uber (20-80 , under 18s can't ride) x age group that can afford uber ( low:mid:high income = 20:50:30 meaning 80% of each qualifying age group can afford uber) x people per household in need of transportation (3 people per household, 2 cars on average per househ"See full answer

Anonymous Muskox - "Goal/Vission of company Understanding of Whatsapp -> Whatsapp platform for people where they can connect with people remotely, they can chat with them, they can do a video call, they can send pdf, location, contacts, etc. Basically, clarify your understanding of WhatsApp. Whatsapp Goal -> connecting the people remotely in a hassle-free manner Vission 3-4 years down the line -> More engagement and retention of the users. For this vision what is the user's intended action Define"See full answer

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

Tiago R. - "function serialize(list) { for (let i=0; i 0xFFFF) { throw new Exception(String ${list[i]} is too long!); } const prefix = String.fromCharCode(length); list[i] = ${prefix}${list[i]}; console.log(list[i]) } return list.join(''); } function deserialize(s) { let i=0; const length = s.length; const output = []; while (i < length) { "See full answer