Interview Questions

Jennifer C. - "Reproduce the bug, read error messages, isolate the problem, use a debugger, check assumptions, review recent changes, consult documentation, Text Edge Cases, take break"See full answer

Exponent - "This is a Design a Product question. For this, we'll want to follow the formula for success: Ask clarifying questions Identify user types, behaviors, and pain points State the goal and use cases List current solutions Improvements / net new solutions Evaluate and select solutions Measure Success Summarize Ask clarifying questions It's important to get clarity on anything unclear. Asking questions also helps us limit scope early on s"See full answer

S K. - "Clarifying questions: Location: Mountian view campus. [Google has campuses across the world and for the interview purpose design the product for Mountian view campus] Assumption : Scope of the design is on-campus travel purpose between buildings. Product: Digital product Target Customer segments Meetings: Googlers who takes bikes to commute to a different build for meetings. a. Goal: On-Time for meetings Lunch or breakfast: Lunch spot co-ordinat"See full answer

David I. - "As I understand it, you’d like me to design a mobile native application (for iOS or Android) that helps people manipulate data similar to that of Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets. You can add and import data, edit it, run calculations, regressions, and generate charts and graphs. If it’s ok with you, I’d like to confine the design to iOS, and based on my knowledge of how a product manager uses a spreadsheet. I’d like to approach this problem by first identifying the goal of the app. Since we’r"See full answer

Prasad M. - "The first aspect to review before any task is who is/are the ultimate 'owner' for this job? The next thing to consider is 'repetitiveness' of the job itself. The job can be simple or complex. For simple and the ownership factor align with my team... then that task is delegated. If the job is complex and the team ultimately owns the task, then I provide careful support to guide in the right direction."See full answer

Exponent - "This is a Favorite Product question with a slight twist. We have a constraint: picking an e-commerce store. This should be relatively easy since we use e-commerce stores every day. Let's go over the Favorite Product formula before we begin: Choose a product and briefly explain what it is Who are the users? What are their pain points? How did competitors solve it in the past? How does this product address these pain points differently and better? **How wo"See full answer

Exponent - "This is a Technical question. It tests your ability to understand high level technical concepts. Even though your job won't have any coding involved, you'll still need to understand these concepts. Being able to cover all these topics with clarity communicates confidence in your interviewer. Unfortunately, there's no formula for technical questions, but some general tips are: Use analogies when you can Break your solution into clear, bite-size steps Don't be afraid to use examples to b"See full answer

Anonymous Shrimp - "Let's assume that the school furniture includes Table, Chair and Whiteboard. Now, the first step is to find the number of students in the U.S Let's assume that the population of the U.S is 300M. Let's assume that Americans start education at 5 years old till 25 for undergrad. It means Americans spend 20 years of their life in school. Average living years for people is 80. 20/80 * 100 = 25%. It means 25% of the American population attends college. 25/100*300M = 75M. So, there are 75M students"See full answer

Umaira K. - "If I get to live my life again I will try to be more confident, it took me a life time to get some confidence and to be what I am today, I ll try to be less dependent on others, I ll work for women empowerment."See full answer

شيماء ا. - ""When a customer makes a request, I always listen carefully and make sure I understand what they need. I stay calm, friendly, and professional."See full answer

Divyani .. - "Did the code in Python"See full answer

Agni W. - "Interesting questions. Thank you for asking it. S: Suppose I want to add notifications service to an app that provides user directed content, that is is dependent on user's past preferences T: if you ask me for a prototype, then I would use API gateway/ LB, Lambda, storage in SQL and No SQL both, have caches. later we could use CDN, have EC2 instances to run the app. We could deploy Kafka pipeline also. Create notification service on the existing app. - that will be a micro service A: Since"See full answer

Abdurhman M. - " Adaptability Teamwork Analytical skills Decision-making skills"See full answer

Pragya S. - "What is Slack ? Slack is a basic instant messaging app usually used in the intra office space , allowing teams to communicate .Also , it includes video & voice calls . In a nutshell , it provides an efficient team communications solutions . 2 Goals of Google/ Position in the market ? To create innovative solutions to customer problems . The focus is on providing accessible information to everyone . 3 Synergy of such a product with google : Slack allows efficient team communication ."See full answer

Anonymous Beaver - "Clarifying questions: Reason to add this feature? No particular reason but let's assume it's an industry practice Any resource constraints? None for now I am assuming all furniture sold on the site is Wayfair's and not sold by third parties? Yes Approach: Industry, company and product profile and target audience Wayfair is a e-commerce company selling furniture. Direct competitors are other online only businesses like amazon. Indirect competition include physical stores like home depot/l"See full answer