Google Behavioral Interview Questions

Negar H. - "SW: Headway (Audio book app) Goal: Track user engagement with the product. (Analytics) To Track user engagement with the product I would first define the user actions defined as user engagement, and then define quantitative metrics to track user behaviour. User actions -> engagement: Actions: User Plays an Audio book (following by user's retention) User uses Next chapter button to continue listening User marks Audio books as favourites User shares Audio books Metrics: DAU & 2."See full answer

Bhavna S. - "Success for an engineer means using skills and knowledge to solve real-world problems, grow continuously, and build a meaningful career."See full answer

Adib M. - "Manage Programs that are in flight Track the progress vs Plan and see if things are on track, falling behind Monitor Risks and update current and any new risks identified and mitigation approach Communicate updates to stakeholders (weekly/biweekly as agreed) Communicate status to peer TPM and partnering teams Daily sync with Engg (like a timeboxed daily Standup to understand Daily Plan and any impediments raised that need resolving) Facilitate Reviews with Product Manager as features"See full answer

Bk - "Situation: In higher Test Environments, I realized that the developer was not Testing /insufficient Testing.. purely because of all the bugs discovered. Action: so first I did couple of things: Defect Density Metrics on the features - driven by priorities and severities, Rough estimation on cost of fixing, Impact of the bugs -were gathered. Produced metrics and had retrospection meeting to analyze situations/cause of failures and what we could learn and put in as best practices. Real"See full answer

Marwan O. - "My company was acquired and I was responsible for planning and managing a transition & integration of custom real-time time-series data and event capture software. I worked with lab scientists (who were running the instruments from which the data would be captured) to understand their unique needs compared to the use cases the software was originally written and deployed for. I wrote proposals for integrating specific components of the software and abandoning others, receiving review and a"See full answer

Philong T. - "I was working with a developer and designer for a hackathon project. The designer created a landing page and my partner ended up building out the design. After deploying the project, the designer sent another landing page design in his feedback. My partner didn't have enough bandwidth to change the design because the project was due that morning and and asked me what I thought. I was already working on finishing up another problem, so I had to wait to answer back in order to focus my energy"See full answer

Anna H. - "Great. I’d like to break down this by discussing impacts of post investment decisions for the Pixel handset lines at two levels of micro and macro evaluation, which will be able to lead us to an evidence-based answer of what I think Google should continue to invest and ramp up their investment to hit their target ROI. First, closely looking at micro aspects, Google’s business model is a so-called multisided platform, generating either free search engines and monetizing contents for Internet use"See full answer

Ben G. - "Situation - A time where I encouraged my work team to be more creative and innovative was while I was directing design at Blade Urban Air Mobility. Long story short, they had no creative programs in place for cross collaboration and innovation. Action - I introduced Figma into the product workflow, and set up time with the technical team to demo and go over the basics of the program. This allowed everyone to collaborate on the designs, leave comments and streamline the process of creative dev"See full answer

David P. - "delete"See full answer

Sanket W. - "Launched a new variant of credit card loaded with Health and Wellness Benefit"See full answer

Sushma R. - "open a social media challenge to share their street view. It will cost 0"See full answer

Yasin E. - "25 min"See full answer

Esther S. - "During planning phase, I've noticed that under several initiatives there were many gaps around clarity and what was the ask. So I've synced with Product and Eng to gather more detailed info, found what was missing (such as why we're doing this, what are dependent teams, etc) and reached out to other teams who might be the dependent teams to get more info from their side. This required not just our engineering teams but other engineering teams that owned that domain, as well as another team for t"See full answer

David n. C. - "First of all, I would try to create and foster a good atmosphere. I will talk honestly with the team and I will expose my doubts openly in order to be transparent. I will talk calmly about my fears and I will ask for opinions. This way I will open the door of transparent communication."See full answer

Fabio E. - "First I would like to ask you some clarifying questions. Timeframe: do we consider a single given day? YES What is the definition of jogger? Running, not walking Is there a minimum distance? NO Do you count only the distance within the perimeter of central park or also the miles getting in and out of CP to my start location? ONLY CP Great, I would like to structure the problem this way. \# of aggregated miles run by jogger in a day in CP = # of joggers per day * av"See full answer