47 Real Google Interview Questions
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- What is your favourite Google product, and how would you improve it?
- If you wanted to bring your dog to work but one of your team members was allergic to dogs what would you do?
- If ads were removed from YouTube, how would you monetize it?
- What do you know about Google?
- YouTube Watch Time is down by 5%. How would you go about this?
- The number of Trips on Uber has reduced by 10%. How would you go about this?
- Open Rate of Amazon Notifications was down by 20%. How would you go about this?
- Engagement on Netflix is down by 5%, How would you go about this?
- The response rate of LinkedIn Messages is Down by 5%, How would you go about this?
- Amazon Marketplace Orders are down by 6% Week on Week on the Platform. Diagnose this?
- Google Pay has seen a 15% drop in Rewards Redemption on the Platform, Diagnose this?
- Zomato has seen a 10% drop in engagement in User Generated Content on the Platform, Diagnose this?
- Design an evacuation plan for the building.
- Which do you think has more advertising potential in Boston, a flower shop or a funeral home?
- A coin was flipped 1000 times and there were 560 heads. Do you think the coin is biased?
- What does being Googley mean to you?
- Name a prank you would pull on x manager if you were hired.
- What is your opinion on whether or not individuals should be required to use their official name when opening a Gmail or Google + account?
- What would you want to do if you didn’t have to work?
- What scares you?
- How many ways can you think of to find a needle in a haystack?
- Estimate the number of tennis balls that can fit into a plane. — Intern, December 2015
- If you could be remembered for one sentence, what would it be?
- If you could only choose one song to play every time you walked into a room for the rest of your life, what would it be?
- How do you think the digital advertising world will change in the next 3 years?
- What three things would you change at your university/workplace if you were CEO today?
- Describe AdWords to a seven-year-old.
- You have a grocery delivery service (similar to Amazon Fresh) which delivers food within 24 hours. Estimate how many trucks you need to operate this service?
- How would you explain cloud computing to a 6-year-old?
- Tell me what you think about Google charging users $1/month to use Gmail.
- How many haircuts do you think happen in America every year?
- List six things that make you nervous?
- Tell me something about you that isn’t on your resume?
- What is the market for driverless cars in the year 2020?
- Model raindrops falling on a sidewalk (sidewalk is 1m and raindrops are 1cm). How could we know when the sidewalk is completely wet?
- How would I explain the importance of HTML 5 to Larry Page and then to my grandma?
- If I gave you 10 million dollars right now, what would you do?
- Define a service that would allow you to travel to the future?
- Would you remove the link to an extremist piece of writing?
- How could you solve humankind’s biggest crisis given one billion dollars and a spacecraft?
- You have a colony on Mars that you want to communicate with. How do you build a system to communicate with them?
- How many cars travel across a bridge each day?
- If you had access to a bank’s database, how would you use that information to design an ATM for elderly people?
- How would you improve a shoe factory?
- Design a mobile social app for a chain of local orthodontist offices.
- What are the number of new book titles published in the US each year?
- How would you solve homelessness in downtown San Francisco?
25 Interview Questions with Answers
- Question 1: Tell me about yourself.
- Question 2: What are your strengths?
- Question 3: What is your weakness?
- Question 4: Why should we hire you?
- Question 5: Why do you want to join this company?
- Question 6: Tell me about a time you showed leadership.
- Question 7: Tell me about a time you were successful on a team.
- Question 8: What would your co-workers say about you?
- Question 9: Why do you want to leave your current role?
- Question 10: Describe your most challenging project.
- Question 11: Tell me about something you’ve accomplished that you are proud of.
- Question 12: What are your salary expectations?
- Question 13: Tell me about a time you managed conflicting priorities.
- Question 14: Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
- Question 15: Tell me about a time you failed or made a mistake.
- Question 16: Tell me about a time you worked with a difficult person.
- Question 17: Tell me about a time you handled pressure.
- Question 18: Tell me about a time you had to learn something quickly.
- Question 19: Can you explain the gap in your resume?
- Question 20: Tell me about a time you surpassed people’s expectations.
- Question 21: What do you like to do outside of work?
- Question 22: What are you looking for in your next job?
- Question 23: Tell Me about a time you had to persuade someone.
- Question 24: Tell me about a time you disagreed with your manager.
- Question 25: Tell me about a time when you had to decide without data.
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