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Google interview questions

186 questions researched across 8 Google seats in Product Management, Business, Google Customer Solutions. Below are 12 of them.

Seats we researched

  • Associate Product ManagerProduct Management · graduate · 45 min
  • Business Undergraduate InternBusiness · intern · 20 min
  • Associate Account StrategistGoogle Customer Solutions · graduate · 30 min
  • AssociateBusiness Operations & Strategy · experienced · 40 min
  • Product Marketing ManagerProduct Marketing · experienced · 40 min
  • SWE InternSoftware Engineering · intern · 20 min
  • UX InternUX · intern · 20 min
  • Finance InternFinance · intern · 20 min

12 Google interview questions

  1. Design a watch for children. Start with the user and the use case before any features.

  2. Design a product for a traveler after airport check-in: define the user, the problem, the solution, and the success metrics.

  3. Design an accessible household product for a blind user, and defend the trade-offs.

  4. What's your favorite product, and how would you improve it? Give me a success metric for the improvement.

  5. Design a product for Google that doesn't exist yet.

  6. How would you improve Google Calendar for remote teams?

  7. Design a shopping experience for elderly users.

  8. How would you measure the success of Google Search?

  9. Estimate how many queries Google Maps gets per day.

  10. Estimate the market size for a high-end Google smart speaker.

  11. How would you price YouTube Premium?

  12. Why did Google build Chrome, and what is its biggest threat?

What a strong answer does

The questions above fall into 3 kinds. What a strong answer does differs by kind, not by question.

Product9 of 12 above
Clarify user and goal; identify needs; prioritize with explicit criteria; propose and test a solution; define success metrics, trade-offs, and risks.
Case2 of 12 above
Clarify the objective; build a mutually exclusive structure; prioritize the highest-value branch; analyze with evidence; synthesize a recommendation, risks, and next step.
Market1 of 12 above
State a view; support it with evidence and a catalyst; explain valuation or transmission; give the strongest countercase; name the risk that would change your mind.

174 more Google questions

The rest of the bank — 186 in total — is asked by the interviewer during practice, so you meet them the way you would on the day rather than reading them first.

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How these questions were researched

Every question carries a provenance grade. Some were reported by candidates who sat the round, some come from the firm’s own published guidance or a source that trains for it, and the rest are written to match how this firm asks. Each seat is studied on its own — the round it actually runs, the order it runs it in, and what it is listening for. A Google round is not a generic behavioural screen, and practising one as the other is how people walk in unprepared.

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