Interview Questions

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

Nitika B. - "Equation: Cost = Amount of storage required per year * Cost per year * 3 Amount of storage required per year = DAU * Storage requirement/user * 365 Assumptions: Cost per year = $99 = $100 Smart phone growth rate = 2% (But negligible at Pixel level) Annual Smart phone users = 2.8B Android users = 76% Google Pixel users = 1% Total Users = 2.8B * 0.01 = 280M *0.01 = 2.8M Method 1: Cost = Active Users + Cost/year * Number of years Cost = 3* 2.8M * $100 = 8.4M*100 = $840M Cost = $8.4B Method 2: C"See full answer

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

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

Aiswarya R. - "Use voice recognition system to interact"See full answer

Abhishek s. D. - "I would get an personal understanding of the pain-points my customers, & business teams are facing. In my experience, spending more time, going deeper in the problem discovery helped me get a rough idea of the how important this problem is. If this is not resolved - what could be the consequences for our users & the business. Given this broad idea, I just simply evaluate them on value vs effort scale. The higher the score, higher the priority. Effort could be in T-shirt size or sto"See full answer

Abdurhman M. - "One of the biggest work challenges I've overcome happened at my last job. Two team members were let go and I was left with the workload of three people. I fell behind and knew I couldn't keep up in the long term, so I asked my manager for help."See full answer

Varun J. - "Assumptions: In-app feature Focused only on Facebook app and not messenger, WhatsApp, or Instagram Focused on community building and groups, not marketplace Facebook's mission is to bring people closer together and give people the power to build communities. Fans of Olympic games straddle across regions and across demographics such as age and gender. I'd assume the product for Olympics should be targeted to all demographics. However, given not everyone follows, or is interested in build"See full answer

M N. - "Lyft mission. What do we mean by engagement here? We want higher rides , not just time spent on app. What does social mean? When we create interactions between riders. Lyft line is social. Ideas: Idea: Can we maintain interactions between riders by letting them ride with same people again? Benefit: Increases repeat rides. Idea: Giving riders an option to request a driver they rode with. Benefits: Increases social interaction between riders and drivers. Increases retention and # rides as"See full answer

Rahul P. - "Providing some bullets to expand on to respond to this question- Inability to adapt to the changes in customer's needs in retail industry Lack of competitive analysis Rigid business model Lack of well defined Vision and Strategy"See full answer

P D. - "Clarifying questions Define relevant? Google should keep progressing in solving customer usecases / increasing revenue and profitability over next 10 yrs Since we are discussing about 10 yr period, can i assume that we need not have any constraints in mind? Yes, do not consider any constraints Just to be clear this is about Google in specific and not about Alphabet and various companies within the group. Yes, let's focus on google Last assumption, can we assume that the overall goal / vi"See full answer

Anonymous Panda - " Communication between Mars and Earth is facilitated through various methods and technologies. The primary means of communication is through the use of space probes, particularly those equipped with powerful transmitters and receivers. Here's a general overview of how communication between Mars and Earth works: Deep Space Network (DSN): NASA operates the Deep Space Network, a global system of radio antennas located in California, Spain, and Australia. These antennas are responsible for sending"See full answer