Interview Questions

Anonymous Muskox - "Clarification about the Google Web Answers, its goal, and vision for the next 4-5 years. Talk about the different user personas and the actions which they should take to achieve that vision. Finally replicating these actions and corresponding actions into metrics. Evaluate the different action if we there are any negative recursion about these metrics"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

Scott S. - "To recount an experience from my last project . We were at the initial stages of designing a new data platform to enhance our trading analytics capabilities. The conflict arose over the selection of a data processing framework. I was advocating for Apache Spark due to its scalability and performance benefits, especially for handling large volumes of derivatives data. Another senior team member preferred a different technology they had more experience with, which they believed would be easier to"See full answer

Qusai B. - "Assumption: I’m estimating the minimum number of trains required to fulfil maximum demand I’m including all trains that’s serving NYC Formula: Before I state my formula, I would like to mention a few things I will be calculating the number of trains required to fulfill all demand at the peak time during a workday. I assume peak time lasts for 2 hours I’m assuming that a train takes 2 hours to complete one roundtrip on its route, which means any given train can service rider"See full answer

Priya K. - "Clarifying questions : Which Kindle device are we talking about ? Kindle paper white, Kindle Oasis? , Kindle paper white 6.9' , Kindle tabs ? - Kindle oasis Kindle Oasis , what are the metric we are trying to achieve ? users onboarding? more marketshare? onboard amazon existing customers Landscape : Competition : In ebook readers, the main competition comes from Kobo, iPads, tabs. Kindle oasis feature is especially and absolutely for reading purpose and buying books to read and th"See full answer

slouchingtowardssv - "Clarify the problem / make assumptions: What are we defining as misleading? For this problem, any video that contains information countering accepted scientific/research-driven results What is meant by fix? Does that entail removing said videos? For this problem, I want to see if we can minimize the amount of videos pulled from YouTube Intro to the product: YouTube is a video-sharing platform that was acquired by Google in 2006 YouTube's original mission statement:"See full answer

Pree M. - "What is shopper demand? Let's say the ability to predict whether x number of shoppers are available during a certain time of day based on a some factors Variables: \# number of orders /per hour /per day /per week Shopping Time: time taken for a shopper to prep an order (how many orders can a shopper prep) $ average order value geographic factors since demand will vary by city number of stores or any other multiplying factor which help us predict order volume (which is dire"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

Danyal R. - "Understand the problem: Chipotle is a chain, located across the US. It's in every major city Make Assumptions I'm assuming in each state there's approx 5 Chipotle restaurants. So in total across US there is 5 * 50 = 250 Chipotle's Let's calculate the sales revenue for a whole year. Create an equation Total Yearly Revenue = # of people going to Chipotle X* *frequency X cost of a meal Break down the problem \# of people going to Chipotle There's about 300M in the US. Out of 300M I'll a"See full answer

Unicorn 2. - "Here is what I understand from the question. Riders use "scheduled rides" to schedule rides for upto 24 hours in advance. Do drivers see these scheduled rides before? Assuming no. The drivers get matched 30min before the scheduled ride. Possible factors in matching Location of driver Location of rider No. of rides the driver has had? Maybe give preference to new drivers? Scheduled rides are only single party rides (no pool,etc) What is our goal here? Maximi"See full answer

M N. - "To clarify, Lyft currently uses dynamic pricing which means the price of a ride is not constant and depends on multiple factors. Let's keep only the car rides on Lyft with driver-rider as customers in the current scope and ignore other product offerings such as bikes, scooters. Should we improve the current dynamic pricing model or design dynamic pricing assuming it doesn't exist? Let's assume latter. Let's assume this dynamic pricing applies to entire US market. Now let's see what factors I"See full answer

Mark - "Clarifying questions: what's the original goal of this feature? what user problem / issues we identified that we are trying to address? Is there a particular user base or market/regions that we are trying to solve this issue for? Is the experience going to impact the rider's action? or does it also change the driver experience? Assume: the issue we are solving for is focus on the rider's experience - the goal of this feature is to increase the % of matched ride (ie rider/driver matche"See full answer

Bella R. - "Approach Clarify the question Define deaf --> unable to hear, but can communicate via sign language, lip read and use all other senses Define fire alarm --> for residential use, it notifies occupants of smoke and potential fires and alerts fire department to check in and/or come over Define constraints --> budgetary constraint, design should be user-friendly and convenient Define goals --> get folks out of harm's way quickly and notify fire department to c"See full answer

Manohar A. - "Some follow-up questions to correctly understand what "improve" means here? Is it to have: more riders, better user experience, monetization, more/new market penetration. Let's assume interviewer requested to choose whatever I prefer. I choose better user experience which might trigger other areas of improvement as well. Some more probing questions: To I need to consider USA only or any other country/region or global? Can I consider only popular on demand taxi service for this question? One wa"See full answer

Akshai V. - "Google Assistant is the Voice AI which converts Natural Language to Queries/Instruction , processes it and get the results and again converts it back to Meaningful Results to the User Currently Google Assistant is Integrated in Multiple End Points. Phone Google Home Chrome Cast Google Chrome Books Some of the Use Cases Google Assistant is used is Making Phone Calls/Texting Asking General Queries/Searching for Information Integration with Devices and Turning them O"See full answer

Krishna K. - "Improve what aspect of Google Translate ? What is the current state of that aspect ?"See full answer

Bk - "To bring any product to market here are the below steps that I would (did) take: 1.Understand the problem stmt / stakeholder need and asses depth of the problem (qualitatively and then gather metrics to quantify it) 2.Do market study on understanding relatable solutions if any 3.Carve out viable solution/ideation that aligns with overall Business Vision/Goal 4.Get stakeholders buy in on the idea 5.Guesstimate and prioritize high level features, Cost and ROI. 6.Build Business case for Project Le"See full answer

Tabrez Z. - "First of all, I could tell that Google maps are used by billions of people around the world. Not only immensely used by the billions of people, but also they are dependent on google maps. I believe that google maps are the only map service in the world, which is providing the best services. We are collecting huge data from this service, which is very useful to predict or analyze market sentiments. We have invested a humongous amount of time, effort, and money to establish these renowned google M"See full answer