Google

Question 1

Tell me about a Consumer Product you like

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Question 2

Apple music have curatorial driven playlists while Spotify is more algorithmically driven, what do you think about that?

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Question 3

If you are head of product for a third competitor, where would you go? How would you go?

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Question 4

What are the downside of the this particular future? Over indexing, automation have the Facebook echo chamber?

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Question 5

You are hired by Spotify, you are Product manager, what’s the way you would improve Spotify?

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Question 6

Let’s switch gears, you have been hired by Google (Nest), and Nest want to enter Smart kitchen market. How would you enter this market? What would you build?

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Question 7

CEO says this is awesome, how would you bring this product into market? You don’t have unlimited resources

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Question 8

What other things are you thinking about? Barriers of entry? Competitors?

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Question 9

What would your target Alphabet ecosystem or broader audience user? What do you think the advantages and disadvantages of targeting each of them?

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Question 10

Do you target online Google users? Or do you target other companies?

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Question 11

Whats your go-to-market strategy?

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Question 12

Different topic, I like you to estimate for me the total amount of data google that google is required to restore all the imagery on Google Earth?

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Question 13

Can you calculate for me the total available parking spots there are in New York?

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Question 14

What is the total amount of storage space on Gmail? How would you calculate it?

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Question 15

Design for me a product that solves the problems for people with loss or impaired listening

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Question 16

Explain to me like you would to a 10 year old how the internet works

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Question 17

If you were going to describe using a metaphor, what would that be?

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Question 18

Your company distributes specifically ATMs to airports. You are in charge of designing a new one. How would you go about it?

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Question 19

Explain how machine learning works

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Question 20

What are some things about engineers that you are aware about?

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Question 21

How would you take present an image on HTML?

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Question 22

Can you write me the code on the whiteboard?

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Question 23

Define a function that takes the an array (ex [2 , 3 ,4] and spits out 235, takes the last number and add 1 & then combine the arrays(length) to form one number

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Question 24

If physics wasn’t an issue, can you design for me a smart watch if google was going to enter the market?

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Question 25

If you were a PM @ Google, how would you monetize Google’s self driving cars?

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Question 26

In 10 years from now, do you think the smart watch technology or self-driving would have a bigger impact on society and why?

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