Behavioral

Question 1

Why Google?

Answer 1

1. I would like to join a leading technology company that provides the opportunity to impact on such a large scale
2. UX is taken seriously at Google and this role is an amazing opportunity to leverage my coding knowledge and my academic knowledge.
3. Google has impacted my life in a very tangible way and I’d like to join to forward that impact to other around the world.

Question 2

Tell us about yourself

Answer 2

answer this one smarty pants…

Question 3

Tell me about a challenge or conflict you faced at your past/current job. How did you handle it?

Question 4

Tell me about a time you had to change

Question 5

Tell me about a time when you had to come up with a creative solution to solve a problem.

Question 6

Tell me about a time you created something from nothing

Question 7

Tell me about your biggest achievements in your past work

Question 8

Tell me about the last time you failed, and what happened

Question 9

Tell me about your favorite Google product

Question 10

Tell me about the skills that you possess that will help you succeed in this role

Question 11

Why this position? Where do you see your career moving?

Question 12

Why are you leaving your former position?

Question 13

What are your strengths and weaknesses?

Answer 13

Strengths:

• Communication, able to work across teams to get things done.
• Leadership, I enjoy planning and driving forward on projects.
• Agile, able to adapt to changing needs.

Weaknesses:
- Speaking in front of large crowds

Question 14

What makes a good UX Engineer

Answer 14

• Focus on the user and the rest will follow
• Communication
• Ability to be agile to changing needs

Question 15

What makes a bad UX Engineer

Answer 15

• Not understanding your user
• Siloed off and coding with consulting UX
• Rushing to a solution without fully thinking through a problem

Question 16

If you had coffee with Sundar Pichai what would you talk to him about?

Answer 16

• Learn about his story, I know about Google’s founders (Larry and Serge), but Sundar is fairly unfamiliar to me.
• I would love to talk about his vision for Google Assistant. This has a massive future in front of it and I think his thoughts on how the company would leverage it in the future would be really insightful.

Question 17

What is a bad UX you’ve experience in the past, what made it so bad?

Question 18

What is a good UX that you’ve experienced in the past, why was it good?

Question 19

Let’s take a look at one of your apps on your phone, what improvements could you make to it? What do you think is great?

Question 20

tell me about a time you worked on a project and your first code solution did not work out?

Answer 20

Auto opt in

Question 21

Give me an example of when you had to step up and be a leader?

Answer 21

Scrum Master, Invoicing project

Question 22

How do you manage your daily tasks?

Answer 22

Todoist

Question 23

Give me an example of when you had to deliver feedback to one of your team members

Answer 23

Code reviews

Question 24

Give me an example of when you helped a team member solve a difficult problem

Answer 24

Sindhu FAB

Question 25

Tell me about a time you challenged yourself

Answer 25

Blah

Question 26

Tell me about a time you had to deliver difficult feedback

Answer 26

Blah

Question 27

Tell me about a time you had a disagreement with a co worker

Answer 27

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