Interview Questions

So X. - "Why is the value of an Android user only considering incremental clicks on ads instead of all clicks on ads?"See full answer

Cj K. - "Clarifying Q Is the search traffic meaning # visits clicked through the 'search' button from the homepage(search CTR)? or does this include # pages viewed after the search result pages (search depth)? Hypothesis I believe introducing Gen AI as a default feature on the Google's search box will increase #search traffic. I assume the biggest user pain point within current google homepage is that deciding on a keyword for search. Unlike other alternative platforms such as"See full answer

Mereke D. - " Before starting to answer let me gather the necessary details before proceeding: Objectives and Goals\: "What are the primary objectives of implementing the push notification system? Are we aiming to increase user engagement, drive sales, or provide timely updates?" Target Audience\: "Who is the target audience for these push notifications? Are there specific user segments we should focus on?" Platform and Device Considerations\: "Which platforms (iOS, Andr"See full answer

Louie Z. - "DNNs can learn hierarchical features, with each layer learning progressively more abstract features, and generalizes better. SNNs are better for simplier problems involving smaller datasets and if low latency is required."See full answer

Priya T. - "INTERVIEWER: Design a communication app for children ME: GOAL: What are the business goals for this initiative? INTERVIEWER: Please assume. ME: Goals could be to* *improve communication skills/ communicate with classmates/friends better/enter a new market/empower children with disability to communicate better/etc. I’ll assume that the goal here is to enable children to communicate and engage better with their classmates since I have personally seen my niece and nephew (17 a"See full answer

Vineet M. - "Precision - Out of all the things we picked as correct, how many were actually correct? recall - Out of all the things that were truly correct, how many did we actually find?"See full answer

John S. - "I have no idea if this would qualify, but I took a different, rather singular approach. Curious and gracious in advance for any and all feedback. My main question is whether this response goes into enough depth with regards to all the content types that Google Map stores, as I chose to focus uniquely on image storage (but am sure to state that clearly before I began): Clarifying questions: global map or US/sectional map? Assume global storage on a single end-user device? Yes consider co"See full answer

fuzzyicecream14 - "1. Sales & Revenue Metrics Total Units Sold – Tracks overall headset sales volume. Revenue Growth (%) – Measures whether revenue is increasing from headset sales over time. Sales by Channel – Identifies how sales are distributed across Google Store, third-party retailers (Amazon, Best Buy), and carrier partnerships. Sales by Region – Helps understand geographic demand and refine regional marketing efforts. Attach Rate – Measures how often the headset is purc"See full answer

Geetesh T. - "Situation: While in the middle of a migration project, which required rewrite of services of my product into a cloud infra., we needed to configure our rules management services onto cloud as per legacy platform. The data extract of all the rules from legacy platform in a csv file needed heavy formatting to be usable for configuration of the new service. My entire engineering capacity was allocated on other prioritized ongoing feature migration and I had no bandwidth left in the ongoing spri"See full answer

Nimish J. - "The health of the product backlog can be determined by considering the following factors - Is the product backlog prioritized? Will each backlog be easily picked up by the engineering team i.e. does it have all the required details such as user story, acceptance criteria, and effort estimates? No items coming back to the product backlog from the sprint backlog due to incomplete development or bugs No of items moving to the "Done" state from the product backlog in each sprint A"See full answer

Sumit P. - "CQs: Help? → any sort of help Customer support? On App guidance? Help for creators?developers? → no Currently it is FAQ based, predefined app guide for the new users, customer support for critical cases Any specific problem came out in research or want me to brainstorm → brainstorm Improve what? → CSAT - lagging metric, should not be only goal Time spent in on app help → key goal is reduce this No constraints Geo - US Users E"See full answer

Sofiya H. - "Context / clarifying questions: Should I assume this is part of Google company? Let’s assume yes Let’s assume we’re building this for Waymo, Google parent company Self-driving cars industry today It’s evolving a lot. I do not have much information on the industry but I know Waymo self driving cars are progressing and there are self-driving taxis already running. Why are we building this and why are we building this now Mainly to understand if this makes sense to"See full answer

Kiran K. - "I depends on the severity of the bug and the impact of the new feature. Is the bug a blocker and is having direct impact on the business flow? Is the new feature mission critical and has a major impact on customer experience, revenue, business, etc. Conduct an analysis. Include key stakeholders in this discussion."See full answer