Google product manager interview questions

948 questions asked in Google product manager interviews: 402 product design, 199 strategy, 95 metrics, 157 estimation, 54 behavioral, 41 AI & technical. Each has an answer guide, and you can practice any of them in a mock interview.

Product design questions (402)

• Design a TV for a car.Google · Product design · Hard
• Design a refrigerator for the blind.Google · Product design · Hard
• How do you design a camera for the elderly?Google · Product design · Medium
• Redesign Twitter for eCommerce.Shopify · Product design · Hard
• How would you go about designing a new location sharing app for Google?Google · Product design · Medium
• How would you improve Google Home?Google · Product design · Easy
• How would you improve YouTube?Spotify · Product design · Easy
• How would you improve Google Maps?Google · Product design · Easy
• How would you improve Google Drive?Google · Product design · Easy
• Design a washing machine for Google.Google · Product design · Hard
• Design an app for an amusement park.Google · Product design · Easy
• Design Lyft for kids.Google · Product design · Hard
• How would you design a consumer application for a scooter sharing business?Google · Product design · Medium
• Build a product for group travel.Google · Product design · Medium
• Build a product to solve the dog poop problem.Google · Product design · Hard
• Design a loyalty program for a search engine that's competing with Google & Bing.Google · Product design · Hard
• Design a photo app for the blind.Google · Product design · Hard
• How would you design a web search engine for children below 14 years old?Google · Product design · Hard
• How would you design a bicycle renting app for tourists?Google · Product design · Medium
• For a retail store, users are frequently complaining about long queues during check out. What strategy would you use to improve the experience in the short term and long term?Shopify · Product design · Medium
• How would you re-design the carwash?Spotify · Product design · Medium
• Design a driverless car pick up service for kids.Google · Product design · Hard
• Google is working on a tech that allows people to travel from SF to Seattle in just 15 minutes for only $1000 per person, one way. What would you do with this tech?Google · Product design · Hard
• Design a referral system for a grocery app.Google · Product design · Medium
• How can Google help improve the grocery shopping experience of users?PayPal · Product design · Easy
• Design a product for event gathering for Google.Google · Product design · Medium
• Design a Supermarket for older people.Google · Product design · Medium
• How would you improve engagement in Trello?Google · Product design · Easy
• Design a smart shoe.Google · Product design · Hard
• How would you improve grammarly? Should Google acquire grammarly?Google · Product design · Hard
• Design a library for the future.Spotify · Product design · Hard
• You're a PM at a vending machine company. Your CEO asks you to design a new line of vending machines to be placed in hotels and motels. What would you do?Google · Product design · Hard
• Design a product to fight climate change.Google · Product design · Hard
• How would you improve Netflix?Spotify · Product design · Easy
• Design a bookshelf for kids.Google · Product design · Easy
• How would you design a "Google Refrigerator"?Google · Product design · Medium
• Build a product to buy and sell antiques.Google · Product design · Medium
• What is your favorite product? Why?PayPal · Product design · Easy
• How would you improve Google Pay?Google · Product design · Easy
• Design a social travel product.Google · Product design · Hard
• How would you reduce Gmail storage size?Google · Product design · Easy
• Design an ATM for airports.Google · Product design · Medium
• Google recently developed a technology that can detect human emotions in a 2 X 2 dimension (energy level and body movement). What are some of the products you can build using that technology? List a few ideas, then choose one and design the product for that idea.Google · Product design · Hard
• How would you improve Uber for a football event?Google · Product design · Medium
• How would you prevent hate, misinformation or deep-fakes on YouTube?Google · Product design · Hard
• Design a mobile app that allows users to easily buy and sell used books.Google · Product design · Easy
• Design a product to speed up the cooking process?Google · Product design · Easy
• What product would you build at Google to support new parents?Google · Product design · Medium
• You are a new PM at Google Pay. Design a feature for paying credit card bills.Shopify · Product design · Medium
• How will you solve the problem of misinformation on FB?Google · Product design · Hard
• Design a vending machine for blind people.Google · Product design · Medium
• Design a healthcare application that would be useful for handling COVID-19.Google · Product design · Hard
• What feature would you add to a self-driving car to make it a more attractive purchase?Google · Product design · Easy
• How would you design a gardening app?Google · Product design · Easy
• How would you improve user engagement on WhatsApp?Google · Product design · Easy
• How would you create a playlist for a user after they listen to a single song? (in an app like Spotify)Spotify · Product design · Medium
• If Google has invented a way to make air travel 4x cheaper and 4x faster, what would you do with this technology?Google · Product design · Hard
• You are a new PM at Google Pay. Design a feature for budgeting.Google · Product design · Medium
• How would you improve Gmail?Google · Product design · Easy
• Design a product for job seekers to create resumes and find the best matching jobs easily and quickly.Google · Product design · Medium
• Design an alarm clock for elderly people.Google · Product design · Medium
• Design a product to improve the lunch experience in XYZ company.Google · Product design · Medium
• Build a Google product that enables people to learn new skills.Google · Product design · Hard
• Design a product for teenagers to have more empathy.Google · Product design · Hard
• How would you improve Google Photos?Google · Product design · Easy
• Design an alarm clock for the blind.Google · Product design · Medium
• Design an app for the DMV (California’s Department of Motor Vehicles).Google · Product design · Medium
• Design an algorithm for an elevator during COVID-19.Google · Product design · Hard
• How would you improve Waze as a PM?Google · Product design · Easy
• What should you build to improve productivity when working from home?Google · Product design · Hard
• Imagine there is new tech that can sense your mood automatically. What do you build with it?Google · Product design · Hard
• As a PM for Google Maps, how would you improve the restaurant search?Google · Product design · Easy
• Describe your top 3 favorite products and why. Products can be hardware or software, for example, a chair, hairdryer, etc.Google · Product design · Easy
• Design a Google bicycle.Google · Product design · Medium
• How would you improve Dropbox?Google · Product design · Easy
• You have been asked to design a software product for "NASA's Dragonfly Mission to Titan (2026)". How would you design the product?Google · Product design · Hard
• How would you improve image search?Google · Product design · Easy
• How would you improve Google Home?Google · Product design · Easy
• Recruitment at Google costs a billion dollars a year. In our search for false positives, we have had a lot of false negatives. How would you build a product to solve this problem?Google · Product design · Hard
• You are a product manager at a start-up whose technology can detect emotions. Evaluate potential applications.Google · Product design · Hard
• Design a product to improve reading habits.Google · Product design · Medium
• Design a high tech gym.Google · Product design · Medium
• How would you design a captain seat for a yacht in SF bayGoogle · Product design · Medium
• How would you design a product for improving teenage health?Swiggy · Product design · Hard
• If you were a PM for Google Nest and your development team has means to get real time weather data, how would you productize this technology?Google · Product design · Hard
• The CEO of a your company asks you to design a new ATM for their Airport segment. What do you do?Google · Product design · Hard
• Design a feature for Youtube to increase engagement (specifically repeat visits) for sports/fitness enthusiasts.Google · Product design · Medium
• Redesign a patrol station.Google · Product design · Hard
• Design a toothbrush for young children.Google · Product design · Easy
• Pick an airport you are familiar with. How would you improve it?Google · Product design · Easy
• Design a product to replace smartphones in 5-7 years.Google · Product design · Hard
• How would you improve a coffee machine used in offices?Spotify · Product design · Easy
• Design a datacenter on the moon for Google.Google · Product design · Hard
• How would you improve Google Flights?Google · Product design · Easy
• Design a calculator for the blind.Google · Product design · Medium
• How would you design a "Pay Later" feature for Amazon app?Shopify · Product design · Medium
• Design a Fitbit app for kids.Google · Product design · Medium
• Design an app that helps a museum make money.Google · Product design · Medium
• How would you improve order conversions by optimising the product descriptions page for a fashion Ecommerce platform?Shopify · Product design · Medium
• How would you improve iOS Reminders?Google · Product design · Easy
• Design a toothbrush.Google · Product design · Easy
• What features should a mobile app have for hospital, focusing on patient engagement?Google · Product design · Easy
• How would you improve the Starbucks app?PayPal · Product design · Easy
• What is your favorite Google product? Pick one, and describe how to improve it.Google · Product design · Easy
• How would you improve Google Chromecast?Google · Product design · Easy
• Design a restaurant app like Yelp for restaurant owners.Google · Product design · Medium
• How do you design a home automation system?Google · Product design · Medium
• Design a free mobile application to assist users with at least one issue caused by COVID-19. The application does not need to be health related.Google · Product design · Hard
• How would you design Google Images?Google · Product design · Medium
• How would you build a virtual classroom and learning management system?Google · Product design · Hard
• Google recently built a piece of equipment that detects information from human body. What kind of application would you build based on it? What type of information would you gather?Google · Product design · Hard
• How would you design a washing machine for the millennials?Google · Product design · Medium
• Design a smart product that uses AI for kids.Google · Product design · Hard
• How can Google Docs be improved?Google · Product design · Easy
• Design a Camera for the ElderlyGoogle · Product design · Medium
• How would you improve Google Docs?Google · Product design · Easy
• Design a product to buy flight tickets.Google · Product design · Easy
• You are the CEO of a company that wants to offer valet parking as a service for hotels. What would you do?Google · Product design · Hard
• Design an app for cooking.Google · Product design · Easy
• Design a fire alarm system for the deaf.Google · Product design · Hard
• Design an online store to sell Bicycles to 12 year old girls.Google · Product design · Medium
• What is your favourite Google product? How would you improve it for the elderly people?Google · Product design · Easy
• You're the new product manager for YouTube and you notice a drop in video engagement by 15% over the past two weeks. What do you do?Google · Product design · Medium
• Design a video streaming application tailored for seniors.Google · Product design · Easy
• Design a phone for deaf people.Google · Product design · Medium
• Design a meditation app for kids.Google · Product design · Medium
• Design a product to be used in airports.Google · Product design · Easy
• Design a parking solution for Google Maps.Google · Product design · Easy
• Design a software application that helps people make intelligent financial decisions.Google · Product design · Easy
• How would you map the ocean?Google · Product design · Hard
• How would you you improve gmail's draft email functionality?Google · Product design · Easy
• Design an engaging incentives management tool for the sales staff.Google · Product design · Medium
• Design a washer and dryer.Google · Product design · Medium
• Design a product for the hearing impaired to help them improve their quality of life.Google · Product design · Hard
• Design a grocery store for elderly people.Google · Product design · Medium
• How would you explain Twitter to my grandmother who knows nothing about the internet?Google · Product design · Easy
• If you were to design a phone for Microsoft, what would that look like?Google · Product design · Hard
• Improve the in-store grocery shopping experience.Shopify · Product design · Medium
• Design a product for FB or Google to help people relocate.Google · Product design · Hard
• If Google were to enter the gas station business, what would be the product/service that you think Google should build? What would be the MVP for this product/service?Google · Product design · Hard
• What kind of applications would you design if you have technology (a small device attached) that can pinpoint the exact location of a person?Google · Product design · Medium
• Design a product for solo women travelers.Google · Product design · Hard
• You are a product manager at LinkedIn. Design a product forpeople with disabilities to find a good job.Google · Product design · Hard
• How would you improve the Drafts feature of your mail client?Google · Product design · Easy
• Design a music product for deaf people.Google · Product design · Hard
• Design a note taking app for the elderly.Google · Product design · Medium
• You have been made the PM of Payments at Google and have been tasked with building a product for very busy people. How would you design it?Google · Product design · Hard
• You work at Yelp. How would you create a system that would provide good advice to users of new restaurants to try?Google · Product design · Medium
• Suggest a new feature for a card game.Google · Product design · Easy
• Design a self driving car.Google · Product design · Hard
• Design an app for touring a city in an offline mode.Google · Product design · Medium
• How would you redesign a ceiling fan?Google · Product design · Easy
• Design Lyft for deaf drivers.Google · Product design · Hard
• How would you improve Google Hangouts?Google · Product design · Easy
• Redesign the fire hydrant.Google · Product design · Medium
• Design a Google translate API.Google · Product design · Medium
• Design a portal that can instantly transport people from any part of the world to another.Google · Product design · Hard
• Improve the airport security experience.Google · Product design · Medium
• Help would you help first-time Airbnb hosts set their listing prices?Google · Product design · Medium
• If Google wanted to expand Google Maps into indoor navigation for malls and airports, how would you prioritize the features?Google · Product design · Hard
• Design a grocery store for a dense, urban area.Google · Product design · Hard
• Build an app that can allow parents to find activities for their kidsGoogle · Product design · Easy
• Create a music service for kids.Google · Product design · Medium
• Imagine a world where everyone has a smartwatch. If you run an amusement park (e.g., Six Flags), what would you do to provide a better user experience?Google · Product design · Hard
• What are the key Metrics to measure the performance of a company in food delivery business and how can we improve the ones related to churn rate?Google · Product design · Hard
• Do you prefer iOS or Android? Based on your preferred mobile OS, design a product of your choice.Google · Product design · Medium
• Design a smart watch for blind.Google · Product design · Hard
• Design a new car stereo.Google · Product design · Easy
• Design a way for people to find apartments.Google · Product design · Easy
• As a PM for Apple and Google engineers, how would you design the contact tracing app to help the world transcend the COVID-19 pandemic?Google · Product design · Hard
• Design a product for people to learn how to play musical instruments.Google · Product design · Medium
• What strategies would you implement to help new Reddit users discover relevant communities quickly?Reddit · Product design · Hard
• We are in the year 2050, and the concept of the driverless car has been perfected. What future problems might Uber face, and how can they be addressed?Google · Product design · Medium
• Pick an app for listening to music & podcasts. What is this app's goal? What does it do well? What can be improved to drive engagement?Spotify · Product design · Easy
• Design a vending machine for a hotel.Google · Product design · Easy
• Talk about a product you think is not well designed and why. How would you improve it?Google · Product design · Easy
• Create a solution that improves the communication between PMs and their customers.Google · Product design · Hard
• Enhance the YouTube experience for creators.Google · Product design · Easy
• You are given a team of 10 engineers at Google. What would you build?Google · Product design · Hard
• How would you improve Google Meet?Google · Product design · Easy
• Design an app for parents to track their child's performance in school.Google · Product design · Easy
• Technical case: If you were to create Google Local Offers (which interviewer described as an app that sends push notifications for discounts for stores when you are close to them), what technical components do you need? What is the workflow, what would you need to store on the phone local storage? What interfaces would you need and what do they look like? What risks do you run into?Google · Product design · Hard
• How would you improve medium?Google · Product design · Easy
• You are responsible for building an education platform that connects people looking to learn new skills with experienced individuals who can teach them (such as pottery, welding, piano, math, etc.). Essentially, it's a shared economy for skills. How would you approach this task?Google · Product design · Hard
• Design a car music system for high-end luxury cars.Google · Product design · Medium
• How would you design a trash can?Google · Product design · Easy
• How would you go about building a library for the next 1000 years, considering technological advancements, preservation methods, and evolving needs of future generations?Google · Product design · Medium
• Design a health app specifically tailored for teenagers, considering their unique needs, preferences, and well-being.Google · Product design · Medium
• Design a mapping app for a school.Google · Product design · Medium
• Design a travel planning Mobile app.Google · Product design · Easy
• Design an elevator.Google · Product design · Easy
• Pretend you're a Product Manager at Google Maps. Your objective is to increase customer engagement with small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). What do you do? Next, how would you get SMBs to implement your solution?Google · Product design · Hard
• How would you make Google search better?Google · Product design · Easy
• Design a shower for the blind.Google · Product design · Hard
• Design an app for a walking tour of a city that provides users with an interactive and informative experience.Google · Product design · Medium
• How would you redesign a TV remote?Google · Product design · Easy
• How do you improve book/pdf/article reading experience on Chrome in mobile or tablet?Google · Product design · Medium
• What is the app on your mobile device that you hate the most and how would you improve it?Google · Product design · Easy
• You are the PM for Pixel phones. How will you improve Pixel to make it the best-selling phone?Google · Product design · Medium
• Create a platform like YouTube for artists.Google · Product design · Medium
• How would you design a heater for kids?Google · Product design · Easy
• What inclusiveness features would you include in the browser?Google · Product design · Medium
• How would you design a parking garage operated by Google?Google · Product design · Medium
• How would you design a computer to mimic the input of brain signals from the five senses of a human being (taste, touch, smell, hear and see)?Google · Product design · Hard
• Design a product that informs people about the Coronavirus.Google · Product design · Medium
• Explain your understanding of Google: why it was created and its core purpose.Google · Product design · Medium
• Google is considering developing a language learning app. Should they proceed with it? Why or why not?Google · Product design · Hard
• You’re a PM at Google. Design a product for pets.Google · Product design · Medium
• Design a phone for the elderly.Google · Product design · Medium
• How would you monetize Google Hangouts?Google · Product design · Medium
• With the rise of AI-powered assistants, how would you improve Google Assistant to stay competitive?Google · Product design · Hard
• Design a recommendation engine for Spotify.Spotify · Product design · Hard
• How would you improve the post-booking experience in Google Flights?Google · Product design · Easy
• Design a career counseling app for students in India.Google · Product design · Hard
• Design a product to educate masses about their own constitution.Google · Product design · Hard
• How would you improve the Airbnb app?Google · Product design · Easy
• Design a smart fridge. Take me through the steps to come up with the product.Google · Product design · Medium
• Design a smart home for the blindGoogle · Product design · Hard
• What’s a product you dislike but have to use everyday? How would you improve it? How would you get it to the market?Google · Product design · Medium
• How would you build a product for a tablet launched in restaurants?Google · Product design · Medium
• How would you design an alarm clock for a deaf person?Google · Product design · Medium
• How would you design a wifi network for your city?Google · Product design · Hard
• What parameters will you take into consideration while designing a recommendation engine for Netflix?Google · Product design · Medium
• Design a question and answer website like Quora.Google · Product design · Medium
• How would you design a supermarket for the elderly?Google · Product design · Medium
• Tell me about a product that is useful but unprofitable.Google · Product design · Easy
• How would you improve the airport experience?Google · Product design · Medium
• Design a product (digital or physical) to introduce a reward mechanism for cyclists (could be extrinsic or intrinsic).Google · Product design · Medium
• Design a travel app for Google.Google · Product design · Medium
• How would you build a healthcare product?Google · Product design · Hard
• Design an application for salons in the nearby areas. The solution should be like a marketplace for salon owners and consumers.Google · Product design · Medium
• Tell us about a technological trend that is currently happening. What Google could do to follow this trend and how can it provide a product related to this trend?Google · Product design · Hard
• Design a washer/dryer for urban living.Google · Product design · Medium
• It is post COVID and employees need to come back to the office. How would you design a system for employees to book desks?Google · Product design · Medium
• How would you design a security badge system for Google buildings?Google · Product design · Medium
• Design a phone for the blind.Google · Product design · Hard
• You are the Product Manager of a ride-share app. What features would you create to prepare the company for autonomous vehicles?Google · Product design · Hard
• How would you redesign the Google Home speaker?Google · Product design · Medium
• Design an app for online shopping experience.Google · Product design · Easy
• If you were a product manager at Google, how would you design a home delivery system and grow it in Europe?Google · Product design · Hard
• Design Google Glass for the blind people.Google · Product design · Hard
• If you're the Product Owner for Google Inbox, what would your roadmap look like?Google · Product design · Hard
• Think of a time you interacted with a government agency (passport, DMV, etc.) and how you would make it better.Google · Product design · Easy
• Design Youtube for dating.Google · Product design · Hard
• Calculate and design a framework for students to choose their dream college.Google · Product design · Hard
• How would you design a product that increases the consumption of fruit in the US?Google · Product design · Hard
• How would design an Uber for laundry?Google · Product design · Medium
• Design an ebike service for Google.Google · Product design · Hard
• Design a pen for an astronaut.Google · Product design · Medium
• Improve Google Play Store.Google · Product design · Easy
• What would be the next app that you delete from your phone? Explain why.Google · Product design · Easy
• You are the CEO of a company that wants to revolutionize the restaurant industry. What would you do?Google · Product design · Hard
• Design an application that allows Google employees to stay fit and track their health.Google · Product design · Medium
• If you have to build a new FB experience for your phone, what would you build?Google · Product design · Hard
• Design an educational tool for K-12 students.Google · Product design · Medium
• Design a washroom for an office floor.Google · Product design · Medium
• How would you improve Google Assistant?Google · Product design · Easy
• You are a new PM at Google. Design a wearable for children.Google · Product design · Hard
• How would you select one particular zoom level for the MVP launch of the Google Maps mobile app?Google · Product design · Hard
• Design a computer keyboard.Google · Product design · Easy
• Design a car for blind people.Google · Product design · Hard
• Design a residential apartment complex for Google.Google · Product design · Hard
• Given that there are fewer employees in the offices, how would you manage the "Corner Cafes" where coffee and snacks are kept?Google · Product design · Medium
• Design an app for carrot farmers.Google · Product design · Medium
• How would you approach the design and go-to-market for a completely new bike concept?Google · Product design · Hard
• Design a Google product for the Olympics.Google · Product design · Hard
• How would you improve YouTube music?Google · Product design · Easy
• Design a product for people moving to a new city.Google · Product design · Medium
• How would you redesign a Microwave?Google · Product design · Easy
• Design an elevator for a 100 story building.Google · Product design · Medium
• How would you design an EV bike renting application for college students (residing in the campus)?Google · Product design · Medium
• If you wanted to create a 1-month MBA program, how would you think about structuring it?Google · Product design · Hard
• If you were to create an image search engine, how would you do it?Google · Product design · Hard
• How would you make Google faster?Google · Product design · Medium
• Assume Google Books didn't exist. How would you design Google Books?Google · Product design · Hard
• How would you design a product for disaster management? You can use all Google resources.Google · Product design · Hard
• What is a non-technical product that you use everyday and you like? Why do you like it? How would you improve it?Google · Product design · Easy
• Pick any industry and tell me the pain points of customers in that industry. Design a system for the pain points. How would you measure success?Google · Product design · Hard
• What product will you design for companies that are moving towards a permanent work-from-home model?Google · Product design · Hard
• Design a grocery store checkout.Google · Product design · Easy
• A huge number of Americans might become homeless in the next 5 years. You have 100 days to come with a plan/solution to eradicate or alleviate the homeless situation in the US. Where do you start?Google · Product design · Hard
• You are a PM of the Amazon Prime Video team and you need to increase market share. Which strategy will you follow? Build a solution/product considering the COVID-19 situation.Google · Product design · Hard
• Build a feature for self-driving cars that addresses people’s inherent fear to purchase.Google · Product design · Hard
• Walk me through the design system of one of the products you’ve PMed.Google · Product design · Easy
• Design a personalized radio station for YouTube Music.Spotify · Product design · Medium
• Design a new pizza.Google · Product design · Easy
• You created a new technology that allows you to collect every signal off the human body. How would you use it? Come up with 5 use cases.Google · Product design · Hard
• How would you improve the Version Control feature in Google Docs?Google · Product design · Medium
• How would you improve the user retention of Google calendar by 10x? What what you do to achieve this?Google · Product design · Hard
• Design a friendly referral system for a loan company.Google · Product design · Medium
• You are the product lead for a project that wants to launch reusable restaurant takeout boxes. How would you take the product from ideation to launch?Google · Product design · Hard
• You are the PM for Google Voice. How you improve it?Google · Product design · Easy
• How should Uber design a shuttle service for commuters between SF and South Bay?Google · Product design · Hard
• As a PM for a major home appliance company, how would you design a refrigerator for the visually impaired?Google · Product design · Hard
• Will you launch a separate app for YouTube Music? If so, design the experience.Google · Product design · Hard
• Bay area is going to be hosting the soccer world cup in 2026. Design a futuristic vending machine which will be used inside these stadiums. During the design, also touch upon how many of them would you need per stadium?Google · Product design · Hard
• How would you improve Google news?Google · Product design · Easy
• how would you improve google translate?Google · Product design · Easy
• You are responsible for launching Google Tablet to restaurants. Describe how you would go about it.Google · Product design · Hard
• What new product should Google invest in and why?Google · Product design · Hard
• You have to design a robot with no screen. What is it, and how will it be designed?Google · Product design · Hard
• How would you improve the App store?Google · Product design · Easy
• How would you design a digital signature solution for government and other sensitive businesses?Google · Product design · Hard
• What is the worst designed Google product? Why? How would you improve it?Google · Product design · Medium
• How would you improve the web browsing experience?Google · Product design · Easy
• Create a new product relevant to Google's existing product line targeted at people using public transit.Google · Product design · Hard
• Create a product for borrowers and lenders.Google · Product design · Hard
• Searching for certain topics is often frustrating, e.g., parenting advice. Brainstorm some solutions for that.Google · Product design · Medium
• Improve Craigslist.Google · Product design · Easy
• How will you go about designing a music app for the blind?Google · Product design · Hard
• How would you design a bridge connecting Africa with South America?Google · Product design · Hard
• Facebook is a multinational company with many offices around the world. Its employees are constantly traveling. Build a solution for FB employees travel.Google · Product design · Hard
• List 5 enterprise software that are well done and has market potential. Explain why you chose them. Then pick one and define the KPI for its success. Define a North Star metric for this product. Given the North Star, define the roadmap. What features do you have to pay attention to for the specific case you picked?Google · Product design · Hard
• Give an example of a poorly-designed product.Google · Product design · Easy
• Name 3 of your favorite nontech products and why? Improve one of them.Google · Product design · Easy
• Design a content recommendation engine for New York Times to improve content/news recommendation to users.Google · Product design · Hard
• What is that one product feature that would change the landscape of Devops/GitOps?Google · Product design · Hard
• Design a food allergies app.Google · Product design · Medium
• Design a product that would be used in the 2020 presidential election.Google · Product design · Hard
• How would you design Google Photos for West Africa?Google · Product design · Hard
• Build an attendance tracking system for NGO volunteers.Google · Product design · Medium
• How would you improve Google Earth?Google · Product design · Easy
• Our goal is to make self-service data available to "everyone" in our company. Assume you're the product manager driving this decision.Google · Product design · Hard
• Design a search engine for the future.Google · Product design · Hard
• Design a product that helps lonely people. It should have a physical aspect to it.Google · Product design · Hard
• Imagine you are the PM for Starlink (SpaceX has introduced satellites to provide accessible internet through satellite). How would you design the product to get maximum acquisition?Google · Product design · Hard
• Suggest a new feature for a PUBG mobile game.Google · Product design · Easy
• Design a Membership Program for a non-profit.Google · Product design · Medium
• Design a smart building.Google · Product design · Hard
• How will you increase the number of users on TikTok?Google · Product design · Easy
• How would you design the Android App Development Environment?Google · Product design · Hard
• Design a self drive car rental Mobile app.Google · Product design · Medium
• If you have to change a garage door what would you change?Google · Product design · Easy
• If you could build any product, what would you build?Google · Product design · Easy
• Which is your favourite email client and why?Google · Product design · Easy
• How would you improve Reddit?Reddit · Product design · Easy
• How would you design an app for truck dispatchers?Google · Product design · Medium
• Design an app that helps people find a doctor.Google · Product design · Medium
• Design a camera that automatically uploads.Google · Product design · Easy
• How would you improve throughput of an airport by 100%?Google · Product design · Hard
• Design a website for monthly rental units.Google · Product design · Easy
• Design an app for a community of Celiac disease patients.Google · Product design · Hard
• How would you design an ideal Chicken Coop?Google · Product design · Easy
• How would you improve the rush hour experience?Google · Product design · Hard
• Take a grocery app - what would be the features you would suggest?Google · Product design · Easy
• Imagine you were the PM of Google Glass, which had been out of the market. How would you have designed and launched it, such that it became a success?Google · Product design · Hard
• How can you improve Google Calendar?Google · Product design · Easy
• Which Google product don't you like and why? What would you do to improve it?Google · Product design · Easy
• Design a Facebook feature that measures user happiness.Google · Product design · Hard
• Design a product that prevents flat tires in cars.Google · Product design · Medium
• Design a refrigerator for offices.Google · Product design · Medium
• Redesign an intercity bus stand for a Tier-2 city in your country.Google · Product design · Hard
• You are a PM at Google. Design a feature for a product meant for a completely blind person.Google · Product design · Hard
• How do you design a Roomba vacuum for the stairs?Google · Product design · Hard
• Hair salons experience peak customer traffic during specific time periods but remain empty for the rest of the day. Design an MVP to maximize capacity utilization.Google · Product design · Medium
• Imagine that you're the PM of a tutoring platform that has basic features such as video/audio calling. You received feedback from customers that you need to improve content sharing on the platform. What would you build?Google · Product design · Medium
• How will you improve Google Maps in the remote area for non-tech oriented people?Google · Product design · Hard
• How would you drive the adoption of Google Docs version control feature?Google · Product design · Medium
• How would you improve remote learning?Google · Product design · Medium
• As a PM at Google, how would you design a connected car experience?Google · Product design · Hard
• Imagine you are a product manager designing an online learning system for elementary school students. How would you design this product?Google · Product design · Medium
• Imagine you are product manager for Android OS. How would you think about battery optimization?Google · Product design · Hard
• Create a scalable system that creates unique IDs.Google · Product design · Medium
• Design Ticketmaster.Google · Product design · Hard
• Find an ideal product for the wearable technology.Google · Product design · Hard
• The State of Hawaii wants to ensure that travelers coming in follow the COVID guidelines like social distancing, etc. and to enforce the guidelines. Design a product to address this.Google · Product design · Hard
• How will be deisgn food delivery system for google?Google · Product design · Medium
• How is the payment distributed between the app provider and Google? Design the system architecture.Google · Product design · Hard
• How would you design an app for family tree with a fun social factor?Google · Product design · Medium
• Design a grocery store for the blind.Google · Product design · Hard
• How would you design a coffee maker for the international space station?Google · Product design · Hard
• Design a new product that is visual to organize guests to sit by others with a common interestGoogle · Product design · Hard
• How will you improve user engagement for Youtube TV?Google · Product design · Medium
• What are three products you use daily?Google · Product design · Easy
• How would you improve the air travelers' experience?Google · Product design · Medium
• Design a system for tutors and students to find each other.Google · Product design · Hard
• How would you improve the company off site experience?Google · Product design · Easy
• Build an app that can allow parents find activities for their kids.Google · Product design · Easy
• Imagine your company created a teleporter. Describe what it looks like. How do you roll it out?Google · Product design · Hard
• If you are a Youtube Product Manager, how will you decide if you should do a filter feature for kids under a certain age?Google · Product design · Hard
• How would you make Youtube faster?Google · Product design · Medium
• How would you improve your iPhone?Google · Product design · Easy
• Given a mirror, a camera, and connectivity, make a product.Google · Product design · Hard
• Imagine you're building a product to help people learn a new language. What would you build and why?Google · Product design · Medium
• You are the product manager at Target. How will you improve the shopping cart experience at Target stores?Google · Product design · Easy
• As the product manager of a new consumer-facing music subscription service, what is the key differentiator that you will build as part of this service?Google · Product design · Hard
• What are the next top three big technologies that Google should be aware of? Implement one of them.Google · Product design · Hard
• How will you improve Youtube for emerging markets?Google · Product design · Hard
• Build a valet service for hotels.Google · Product design · Medium
• Design a bike program for Google's Mountain View campus.Google · Product design · Medium
• How would you improve the health of the internet?Google · Product design · Hard
• Design a fridge for blind.Google · Product design · Medium
• Air travel CSAT is very low. How would you improve it?Google · Product design · Hard
• How would you improve Google Pay for busy people?Google · Product design · Easy
• Your goal is to make Pixel the best phone in the world. What are the top three things you would focus on over the next two years?Google · Product design · Hard
• Design a 3-year roadmap for Google Chrome.Google · Product design · Hard
• How would you optimize Alexa’s AI-driven voice assistant to provide more human-like interactions?Google · Product design · Hard
• Your team has developed a new text-to-video model. If you were the PM responsible for bringing this to market, how would you approach productizing it?OpenAI · Product design · Hard
• How would you improve the onboarding experience for first-time users of Google Drive?Google · Product design · Easy
• You are the product manager for Google Photos. How would you improve the recap (year-in-review) feature?Google · Product design · Medium
• How would you design a competitor to IMDb?Google · Product design · Hard
• If Google acquired Lego, what would you create?Google · Product design · Hard

Strategy questions (199)

• Google Keep is a free product to save, share notes etc. How would you make it a subscription product & monetize it?Google · Strategy · Hard
• With an unlimited network bandwidth what would you build?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Strategize and implement omni-channel initiatives to improve customer LTV for Walmart.Shopify · Strategy · Hard
• Should Google launch a TV service?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Your company has been able to digitize smell, how will you launch this new service?Google · Strategy · Hard
• What should Airbnb's strategy be during the COVID-19 pandemic?Google · Strategy · Hard
• How would you launch Google Home in Canada?Swiggy · Strategy · Hard
• You are the PM for a B2C product that has an advertisement-based monetization model with significant and steady daily revenues. One day, there are no ads served and the revenues plummet to zero. What would be your strategy, as a Product Manager, to deal with this crisis?Google · Strategy · Hard
• If a smart scientist found a way to make teleportation work, how would you market it?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Launch Google Maps for a new region.Google · Strategy · Medium
• Define a strategy of loyalty program for Google Pay.Google · Strategy · Hard
• How would you determine if a specific block in your neighborhood is suitable for a new grocery store?Shopify · Strategy · Medium
• Do you think Google should buy the iRobot company? Why or why not?Google · Strategy · Hard
• You found that only 10% of the allotted slots for databases are being used by your customers. What would you do?Google · Strategy · Medium
• Should Google get into the ticketing market? If so, what would you build?Google · Strategy · Hard
• What strategies are Apple, Amazon, and Google taking in healthcare? What is better, breadth or depth in healthcare use cases? Pros/cons?Google · Strategy · Hard
• How would you decide on the price of Amazon Prime?Google · Strategy · Hard
• How would you launch a social fitness device?Google · Strategy · Hard
• What would your roadmap be for Google Pay? 1 year vs 3 years.Swiggy · Strategy · Hard
• As a PM of YouTube, how do you position YouTube against Instagram and Snapchat?Google · Strategy · Hard
• How would you increase growth and market share for Google Cloud?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Should Google get into the ride-sharing market?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Evaluate the upsides and downsides of building a super app — an app having all major B2C features including entertainment, e-commerce, food ordering, hotel booking, cab booking, chat, holiday planning, gaming, med ordering, service booking, etc.Google · Strategy · Hard
• How would you assess the impact of weather on consumer spend last winter?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Suppose 10 Google Cloud customers come to you and say they want you to customize your product for them. Your engineering team has the bandwidth to handle only one of the requests. Walk me through how you'd evaluate the customers and decide which ones to build for.Google · Strategy · Medium
• How would you design surge pricing for Uber or Lyft?Google · Strategy · Hard
• How would you increase YouTube's daily active users?Google · Strategy · Medium
• If you were CEO of Nest, what would be the next product you would build?Google · Strategy · Hard
• You are a product manager of an app which consumers use for requesting barber service. The business wants to address another problem through the same app (which is ordering water bottle-20L). Will you develop another feature within the same app? Will you develop another app to address this? How would you arrive to this decision?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Should Google Maps enter into all aspects of restaurant business/domain (beyond just search)Google · Strategy · Hard
• Why does Starbucks sometimes have coffee shops on both sides of the road?Google · Strategy · Easy
• How would you go about building an online business that sells homemade cookies?Google · Strategy · Easy
• What apps should benefit from an API that detects moods?Google · Strategy · Hard
• If you were the product manager of Youtube, evaluate whether you should add a new feature to show the videos flashing 5 frames instead of being static in the search thumbnail view.Google · Strategy · Medium
• You're a founder, and have decided to start something in the travel space. What do you do?Google · Strategy · Hard
• What hot new tech product do you think will be completely forgotten about a year from now?Google · Strategy · Easy
• Suppose you're trying to convince Google execs to keep growing the YouTube Shorts product. You can put 3 graphs in your slide deck. What graphs would you want to create?Google · Strategy · Hard
• As PM of LG, decide if you should launch a Smart Fridge.Google · Strategy · Hard
• Should Google offer a Stubhub competitor? That is, sell sports, concert, and theater tickets?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Someone left a prototype of your new smart speaker at a cafe, and the tech press is writing all about it. What are some risks that your team and product now face? How would you mitigate them?Google · Strategy · Medium
• How would you develop the strategy for YouTube for the next 5 years?Google · Strategy · Hard
• What is an area where Google is under invested?Google · Strategy · Hard
• If you were the CEO of Xeros, how would you address growth and shareholder value?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Google decided to shut down Gmail. What would you do?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Should Google continue to invest in the Chrome OS and Android OS separately or merge them at some point?Google · Strategy · Hard
• How would you improve Grammarly and what will be your key metrics to measure its improvement?Google · Strategy · Medium
• What should Google invest in the next 5-10 years?Google · Strategy · Hard
• If you are the CEO of Google, what will be your roadmap for the next 5 years?Google · Strategy · Hard
• What milestone or markers would you look at to determine if a product isn’t performing well and what considerations do you make before you sunset the product? What is the process you would lay out? How do you handle the stakeholders?Google · Strategy · Hard
• In the legal or medical vertical, which one would you choose first for an AI/ML project, and why?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Imagine you are the head of product for Chrome. What would your strategy be?Google · Strategy · Hard
• What would you do if you were a head of product at Meta?Google · Strategy · Hard
• How would you increase the revenue of Google Maps?Google · Strategy · Medium
• Should Google make one more attempt at social media?Google · Strategy · Hard
• What is the opportunity of adding a push notification feature to Youtube TV for Kids from 10 - 14 years old?Google · Strategy · Medium
• Should Google build a video streaming service to compete with Netflix, Disney+, PrimeVideo, and Hulu? If yes, outline the strategy.Google · Strategy · Hard
• You are the PM of Google Hangout . The avg playstore rating is 3 star with 100k reviews but the problem is that 40% of the users gave 5 star rating and 40% gave 1 star. What would you do?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Let's assume we are successfully able to teleport inanimate objects. How would you go about monetizing or launching this project?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Why is Google investing in self-driving cars?Google · Strategy · Easy
• How would you launch Google’s driverless car service?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Assume that in a major urban city, there is a section of interstate highway that is only available for self-driving cars. What are some potential business opportunities?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Should Lyft enter the food delivery business?Google · Strategy · Hard
• If a VC gave you $100M to build a payments app for India and maximize market share in 12 months, what would be your strategy?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Imagine Google engineers came up with an API service that converts freeform text to SQL statements. How would you go about making this into a service, taking it to market?Google · Strategy · Hard
• How would you price the Google Translator API?Google · Strategy · Hard
• You are in charge of pricing for an immersive AR/VR experience type offering. How would you price it?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Imagine I'm a VC, offering you $20M to build any technology-enabled product/service you'd like. Please walk me through how you would get started? (Problem, Solution, User, Monetize, TAM)Google · Strategy · Hard
• What is the next big opportunity for Youtube? How would you go about designing it?Google · Strategy · Hard
• If you were the product manager of a video streaming content site, how would you determine what content to put on the landing page?Google · Strategy · Medium
• How would you monetize the data collected from Tesla cars as more users adopt and drive electric vehicles?Google · Strategy · Hard
• You work for a company that deploys solar technologies, including solar panels. The company installs them and provides maintenance services. While the business is currently performing well, you've been tasked with achieving a 10x growth within the next two years. What would you do?Google · Strategy · Hard
• You are a PM in a security team, the management has tasked you to reduce the security issues in the software development activities. How would you do it?Google · Strategy · Medium
• Should Amazon enter the smartphone business?Google · Strategy · Hard
• How do you handle ethics concerns from users and policy enforcement in AI/ML?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Why did Google acquire Fitbit for over $2 billion?Google · Strategy · Medium
• Should Google Cloud build or buy a visualization tool like Looker?Google · Strategy · Hard
• You are a product manager at Microsoft Teams, and you need to acquire a billing system rather than build one. What process will you follow?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Is there a market for an App for Senior Citizens so participants can meet and read daily news from specific newspapers?Google · Strategy · Easy
• Google gets the opportunity to place ads in in-flight entertainment (seat-back and personal device). Should it proceed, or not?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Should YouTube Shorts be separated from the YouTube app? If yes, why? If no, why?Google · Strategy · Hard
• How would you launch an MLOps product?Google · Strategy · Medium
• What are you favorite mobile apps and why?Google · Strategy · Easy
• If Google wants to start charging for a single product it owns, which would it be and why?Google · Strategy · Hard
• You are the owner of a new battery tech company. What is your go-to-market plan?Google · Strategy · Hard
• G-suite is considering to implement a malware and virus detection. How would you evaluate the decision?Google · Strategy · Hard
• If you want to double the traffic from SEO for a website, what are the steps you will follow?Google · Strategy · Medium
• Evaluate the competitive landscape (direct & indirect) for Dropbox.Google · Strategy · Hard
• Should LinkedIn add a Video Feed feature?Google · Strategy · Hard
• You are on the board of Google Maps. There are number of competitors coming up in the market. i.e Waze etc. What is your strategy to maintain your dominance?Google · Strategy · Hard
• As Google, how would you go about improving inflight experience?Google · Strategy · Medium
• If you're the product owner for Google Inbox, what would your roadmap look like?Google · Strategy · Hard
• How would you project a gardener-robot for Google HQ?Google · Strategy · Medium
• Think of a time you interacted with a government agency (passport, DMV, etc.). How would you make it better?Google · Strategy · Medium
• You are the Product Manager for the Google Hardware. Can you explore opportunities in the shower/bathroom area?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Name a technology you like. Design a product using the technology.Google · Strategy · Easy
• Imagine we have come up with a mood API which enables real time access to anybody's mood. What should we do with it?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Why did Amazon get into the hardware space?Google · Strategy · Easy
• What is the market size for commercial space travel?Google · Strategy · Medium
• Come up with a new product or market that Google could enter.Google · Strategy · Hard
• What is the next big thing for Google?Google · Strategy · Hard
• How would you relaunch Google Glasses?Google · Strategy · Hard
• How would you get more usage for Google Search?Google · Strategy · Medium
• Imagine you are VP of Product for Google Chrome OS and Android. What is your goal for the next 3 to 5 years?Google · Strategy · Hard
• You are a PM at Google and you need to launch Google Analytics. What's next?Swiggy · Strategy · Medium
• Pick an object near you. What attributes do you consider as important for this product? How would you improve it?Google · Strategy · Easy
• What is your strategic analysis of mobile messaging applications?Google · Strategy · Hard
• If you are a product manager at Google's food delivery service, how will you increase the market share?Swiggy · Strategy · Hard
• There is a long line every weekend for dinner at a local Burmese restaurant. You are the owner. Would you consider it as a good thing or bad thing? What would you do?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Waymo is being asked to monetize beyond the ride-sharing use case. What should they do?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Design a product to improve diners' experiences at restaurants after they finish the meal.Google · Strategy · Medium
• Should Google acquire Quora?Google · Strategy · Hard
• What is the future of the streaming music industry in your opinion?Spotify · Strategy · Hard
• How would you internationalize a US based product?Google · Strategy · Hard
• If you were out walking and came across a magic relic that could give you very accurate weather for the next 30 days in a location, how would you productize it for Google?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Should Google offer an Airbnb compeititor?Google · Strategy · Hard
• How would you get another billion monthly active users on YouTube?Google · Strategy · Hard
• If you were the PM for the Windows phone, how would you make it successful?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Suppose a customer is considering switching from Azure to Google Cloud. What are 5-7 key pieces of information (metrics, policies, etc.) about Google Cloud you would want to show them?Google · Strategy · Medium
• What should Google do on Healthcare? Why?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Pick a product of your choice. What are the goals of the product? What’s in your monthly business review deck for the leadership team?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Pick a Google Cloud product you would sunset. Why?Google · Strategy · Hard
• You are the product manager at Google Hangouts. After launch, you have an avg. review rating of 3 - detail (40% rated 1, 40% rated 5, 20% rated 3). What will you do?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Imagine that you have a technology that can enable infinite bandwidth and near zero latency. What will you do with it?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Design a self-driving car for kids. How would you build an investor pitch for this product? How would you price the car, and what would be the 1st year revenue?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Tell me about a new use case for a smart product.Google · Strategy · Easy
• Your company gives you 100PB of storage. How would you build a monetizable product?Google · Strategy · Hard
• You are PM for Google Maps. Google is considering providing mapping for indoors. Should we do it?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Everyone is working from home since Covid. Schools are also online. The students have been provided devices (phones, tablets etc), but not all students have Wifi. Google wants to give free Wifi to these kids. In the area of your choice (give reason why), how many towers and boxes are needed?Google · Strategy · Medium
• Design a dashboard for the CEO of Google on the Android business. Which metrics would you show and why?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Due to COVID-19, Google Cloud Services demand has increased. Extrapolating current trends, we will reach the limit in 18 months. How will you handle it?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Improve Chrome usage by 5X in 2 years.Google · Strategy · Hard
• Make the product roadmap for a note-making app. The product is currently in MVP.Google · Strategy · Hard
• Google wants to invest in kids reading more audiobooks. How should they do it?Google · Strategy · Hard
• GMeet got boosted during lockdowns. But as world opens up, how will you cater the "people using G-Meet for work" segment in order to keep the number of users from falling. What is your product strategy and roadmap for this segment?Google · Strategy · Hard
• What is the impact of the search technology on the world?Google · Strategy · Easy
• Should Google enter the cryptocurrency market?Google · Strategy · Hard
• What product (or service) will be obsolete in 5-10 years? Then, how would you advise the producer/creator/company in this shifting landscape?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Google cloud wants to provide Google Translation as an API. What do you think about it? Give your pros and cons analysis.Google · Strategy · Medium
• A bike-sharing company is considering a freemium model. Should they do it or not?Google · Strategy · Hard
• What should Google do in 5 years with all the tech innovations happening already?Google · Strategy · Hard
• How would you determine if features go into OS level or application level?Google · Strategy · Hard
• How would you create a localization strategy/roadmap for a product?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Should Google acquire Evernote?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Should Google enter into gaming domain? e.g. Ms has xboxGoogle · Strategy · Hard
• Was Google Glass a good product? Why?Google · Strategy · Medium
• If you had unlimited resources, how would you disrupt the movie/film industry?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Should Google Maps enter the restaurant business?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Should Google continue offering Google Earth?Google · Strategy · Hard
• You have been appointed as CEO of Meta (Mark Z stepped down). What will you do for the products?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Pretend Google Next wants to acquire iRobot. What do you look for/how do you position your decision?Google · Strategy · Hard
• What is your favorite non-software (hardware) product? Why? How can you improve this product further?Google · Strategy · Easy
• How would Google enter FinTech?Google · Strategy · Hard
• What are the top 3 tech trends you are following? Pick 1. Imagine I'm (interviewer) a VC. What startup idea would you pitch to me leveraging the tech trend you chose? What would be your 3-year strategy?Google · Strategy · Hard
• What is an area where Google is under invested?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Imagine you own a wildly successful food truck, and you want to scale it up. How would you do it?Google · Strategy · Medium
• How would you price a brand new Kindle book?Google · Strategy · Medium
• You are eating in your company cafeteria and someone taps you on your shoulder. It's your CEO asking you what the company should do next. What would you do?Google · Strategy · Hard
• If you were a senior PM for Google Maps, what would your goal be for the next year?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Start a new coffee shop in Toronto, Canada.SAP · Strategy · Hard
• Imagine a product that helps farmers to get a better value for the crops they sell at the local markets. How would you go to market with this? Focus on generating incentives for both supply and demand side. Design the product.Google · Strategy · Hard
• How would business look like in a world with unlimited connectivity?Google · Strategy · Hard
• How will you reduce Chime's operating cost by 50%?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Describe the strategy behind Google entering the cell phone market.Google · Strategy · Medium
• How would you enter into blue collar hiring?Google · Strategy · Hard
• "You're the PM for Google AdWords. One of the core initiatives you own is to increase spend, account engagement, and number of accounts in the SMB (small-to-medium) business space. What does your 1-year roadmap look like?"Google · Strategy · Hard
• Should Google build a shopping recommendation?Google · Strategy · Medium
• What should Microsoft's strategy be if they were to attempt to re-release a mobile device, taking into consideration current market trends and consumer preferences?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Design a dashboard for the CEO of Google.Google · Strategy · Hard
• Why do you think Meta launched Facebook portal?Google · Strategy · Medium
• What could have Google done in March 2020 to help with the PPEs issue when Covid was intense?Google · Strategy · Hard
• How would you launch Google Photos in Turkey?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Should Google enter the vending machine business?Google · Strategy · Hard
• What are the big strategic challenges Google will be facing in the next few years?Google · Strategy · Hard
• How can you determine the effect a feature will have on product adoption before launching it?Spotify · Strategy · Medium
• You are about to launch a new app that is of strategic importance for the company. 1 month out from launch internal dogfood suggests that the app isn't ready (you are below target on several key metrics including CSAT). What do you do?Google · Strategy · Hard
• If you had a product that could teleport people, how would you do the product launch?Google · Strategy · Medium
• You are a product manager at a start-up which makes a teleportation device. How will you go about it?Google · Strategy · Hard
• How would you source the data for potholes on the road to improve the driving experience? Any requirements on how fresh the data needs to be?Google · Strategy · Medium
• Which industry would AI have the most potential in?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Why is AI important to Google?Google · Strategy · Easy
• Imagine that after 5 years, driverless cars are the norm. What business will you start building today to make use of driverless cars in 5 years?Google · Strategy · Hard
• What should Youtube do for India? How will you launch it? What will be the North Star Metric? What will you do if adoption is not there?Google · Strategy · Hard
• What are the top 3 headwinds and tailwinds for e-commerce?Google · Strategy · Medium
• Where is Google underinvested today?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Tell me about a product that had great potential to succeed but failed, and explain why it didn't succeed.Google · Strategy · Medium
• As a Project Manager for Google Cloud, how would you strategize to increase Google Cloud's market share?Google · Strategy · Hard
• As the Head of Product at Facebook/Meta, what strategies would you implement to drive innovation and enhance user experience across the platform?Google · Strategy · Hard
• If you were the head of Azure Data Warehouse, what would you do to improve their offering?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Create a subscription plan for Google Maps.Google · Strategy · Hard
• How do you go about building an AI Product Team?Google · Strategy · Hard
• You are the PM for Pixel phones. How will you make Pixel the go-to phone for Gen Z?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Why is AI important to Google’s business strategy and long-term goals?Google · Strategy · Hard
• How would you increase Gmail’s revenue by 2x in 2 years?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Imagine you are the CEO of Waymo. What is your 5-year strategy to reach profitability?Google · Strategy · Hard
• If Google invented teleportation, how would you price it?Google · Strategy · Hard
• As a PM at Google, you have been asked to define a product strategy for launching e-billboards. How will you go about it?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Google has acquired Bank of America and asks you to launch a product within six months. What product would you launch and why?Google · Strategy · Hard
• If Google wanted to improve the accuracy of Google Search for emerging topics, how would you approach it?Google · Strategy · Hard
• Why is the Google app strategically important for Google on iOS?Google · Strategy · Hard

Metrics questions (95)

• How do you define success for Yelp reviews?Google · Metrics · Medium
• Utilization went down by 45% on app XYZ in Italy for the month of August. Give a reason why and draft a plan to fix it.Spotify · Metrics · Medium
• You launched a new signup flow to encourage new users to add more profile information. A/B test results indicate that the % of people that added more information increased by 8%. However, 7 day retention decreased by 2%. What do you do?Google · Metrics · Hard
• Define the metrics for YouTube search.Google · Metrics · Medium
• You walk in to your office and find that Google cloud subscription has gone down by 20%. What do you do as a product manager?Google · Metrics · Medium
• What would be the top six metrics for WhatsApp? Now pick one from the six. Tell me three things you would do to improve that metric.Google · Metrics · Medium
• How do you measure the success of Google Search?Google · Metrics · Medium
• A metric for a video streaming service dropped by 80%. What do you do?Google · Metrics · Medium
• How would you measure the success of Gmail?Google · Metrics · Medium
• Google Maps had a 10% drop in daily active users. What do you do?Google · Metrics · Medium
• How would you measure the success of Google Calendar?Google · Metrics · Medium
• Make an argument for offering some free storage space to Google Photos users.Google · Metrics · Medium
• How would you measure the success of Google Photos?Google · Metrics · Medium
• Drivers are dropping out of a city on Lyft. How do you figure out what's going on?PayPal · Metrics · Medium
• If you were the PM for Lyft, what dashboard would you build to track the health of the app?Google · Metrics · Hard
• There is an 8% drop in Google Search. What would you do?PayPal · Metrics · Medium
• What do you think is the most important metric to track in Google Search and why?Google · Metrics · Medium
• What metrics would you chose for TikTok Live?Google · Metrics · Medium
• Around 40% of reviews in Amazon are fake. As a PM in Amazon, how will you tackle the problem? Break your answer into 3 parts — 1. How will you identify a review is fake? 2. What action will you take? 3. If the number of fake reviews are decreased, what will be the impact?Google · Metrics · Hard
• How would you measure the success of YouTube?Spotify · Metrics · Medium
• There are about 1 million inactive Netflix users. What would you do about them?Spotify · Metrics · Hard
• There's a 50% drop in the number of Uber rides per day. Diagnose the problem.Google · Metrics · Medium
• What is the most important metric for Google Docs and why?Google · Metrics · Medium
• What are the important metrics a PM for a luxury goods eCommerce website should look at?PayPal · Metrics · Medium
• Pick a feature from a product of your choice & tell us how will you assess the success of that feature. Assume it is being launched now.Google · Metrics · Medium
• Google search revenue was down. Figure out why.Google · Metrics · Hard
• You're the PM for Google Cloud storage. How would you measure success?Google · Metrics · Medium
• How would you pack & ship exactly 1 lb of Apples?Google · Metrics · Easy
• What are 10 important metrics for Spotify under engagement category? Which one would you improve? Why?Spotify · Metrics · Medium
• How would you measure the success of Google Hangouts?Google · Metrics · Medium
• What are the success metrics for Google Maps?Google · Metrics · Medium
• What's the north star metric for Google Calendar?Google · Metrics · Easy
• What data points would you would like to track to know if zoom meeting was successful or not?Google · Metrics · Easy
• How do you measure the success of Airbnb online experiences?Spotify · Metrics · Medium
• Youtube revenue suddenly dropped 10%. Why?Google · Metrics · Medium
• Design an accessible and user-friendly spice rack for individuals who are blind.Google · Metrics · Hard
• You’re the product manager for Facebook Live. You notice usage is down 20%. How do you go about finding the root cause?Google · Metrics · Medium
• What metrics would you track to measure the success of Google Chrome?Google · Metrics · Medium
• How would you assess the opportunity for showing "You may also like" block along with the existing ads block on Google Shopping?Google · Metrics · Hard
• How do you measure the success of Instacart?Google · Metrics · Medium
• How would you solve homelessness in downtown San Francisco?Google · Metrics · Hard
• Facebook Newsfeed engagement is down 10%. How would you report this issue to the CEO?Google · Metrics · Hard
• How would you measure the success of Zoom?Google · Metrics · Medium
• Pick your favorite product, and as the product manager, determine the daily dashboard you will need to run the product business.Google · Metrics · Easy
• Define success metrics for Android OS.Google · Metrics · Hard
• The rider experience with Airport rides is going down. What would you do?Google · Metrics · Medium
• You are the product manager for a product and you just launched the pilot. There is a competing priority on a new feature request and a bug that was found post-launch. How will you decide which one to pick?Google · Metrics · Medium
• if you had unlimited resources to fix a problem in the world right now, what would it be? B) who would your team be and c) what are your measurable goals to determine if you’re successful?PayPal · Metrics · Medium
• YouTube usage has dropped by 50%. What would you do?Google · Metrics · Hard
• How would you go about validating the need for an app to split the bill when people go out to restaurants or bars?Google · Metrics · Easy
• How would you determine sleep from cellphone data?Google · Metrics · Hard
• Identify the reason notifications delivery is failing for your App.Google · Metrics · Medium
• What are the biggest challenges of Google Workspace?Google · Metrics · Medium
• How could you use logs to determine if a new product is successful?Google · Metrics · Easy
• You are an early employee at Transferwise. Segment your customer base and devise a growth strategy based on that.Google · Metrics · Hard
• NPS for Walmart Offline is low. How will you go about it?Google · Metrics · Medium
• Target online is launching a new feature to show suggested items when a person is on a product page online. What will be the launch metrics?Google · Metrics · Medium
• how much more or less do you pay drivers per trip (by changing Lyft’s take)? Your goal is to maximize net revenue for the next 12 months on this route.Google · Metrics · Hard
• Define the success metrics for the United States and set goals for the next 10 years.Google · Metrics · Medium
• How can GenAI be used in medical transcriptions?Google · Metrics · Hard
• How would you measure the success of YouTube TV?Google · Metrics · Medium
• Engagement is going down by 10% month on month for your product. What data /metrics would you look at?Google · Metrics · Medium
• How does the mean and median compare for search response times in Google?Google · Metrics · Medium
• You are a PM of Lime Scooters. Users are signing up but are not using the scooters. What do you do?Google · Metrics · Medium
• You’re the PM for an e-commerce marketplace and you’re responsible for the recommendations feature. In the past quarter, you ran an A/B test for your new feature and you’re supposed to present the results to the execs. What metrics would you present to them?Google · Metrics · Medium
• You were recently hired as a product manager for an education portal. Its website has courses that people can take, for example, Python programming. Your product is close to launching. What metrics are you interested in tracking and preparing for and why?Google · Metrics · Medium
• How will you build a patent system?Google · Metrics · Hard
• You are a CEO of Trip Advisor. In the last 2 week, you received a lot of feedback and complaints about one particular restaurant listing. What would you do?Google · Metrics · Medium
• What are the metrics you will track if you own Google Docs?Google · Metrics · Medium
• How would you evaluate a product that you don't know much about? Imagine that it is not a Google product and you are not a power user.Google · Metrics · Medium
• If you were the PM in charge of the Google Pixel's camera app, how would you measure your success?Google · Metrics · Medium
• What are the metrics for Google Photos?Google · Metrics · Easy
• How would you measure the success of Shazam?Google · Metrics · Medium
• How would you measure the effectiveness of our employee referral program?Google · Metrics · Medium
• Average hours of videos watched per monthly active users have fallen for Youtube. What could be the possible reasons?Google · Metrics · Medium
• How do you measure success of Google Maps in shopping mall?Google · Metrics · Medium
• What KPIs do you think Gmail monitors?Google · Metrics · Easy
• If your engineering team wants to do a bug fix and your sales team wants to implement a new feature, how do you decide which one to do? You can only do one.Google · Metrics · Easy
• You are a PM at Google Cloud and you realized that for a set of users, VMs (Virtual Machines) have been underutilized or not utilized at all. How do you identify the root cause? How do you solve the issue and ensure that it won't happen again?Google · Metrics · Hard
• You’re the PM for Google Workspace (Docs, Spreadsheet, Slides) and you see a MoM spike of 15% in storage usage. What do you do?Google · Metrics · Hard
• How would you decide where to establish a Pizza restaurant?Google · Metrics · Medium
• Imagine you are the PM for a new feature for a home device. How would you optimize the sign-up flow?Google · Metrics · Medium
• How would YouTube go about detecting if a video is watched in a group or not?Google · Metrics · Hard
• You are the marketing manager for Tinder. The user base in a particular city is not increasing at an expected rate. There has been a decline. Devise a growth strategy for Tinder there.Google · Metrics · Hard
• The number of matches on Tinder are down. How do you identify the problem and rectify it?Google · Metrics · Medium
• YouTube shares are up. What do you do?Spotify · Metrics · Hard
• Design a banking application for a blind customer or with low vision impairment.Google · Metrics · Hard
• Sundar comes to you in Mountain View and says he needs to be in Japan in 5 minutes for a meeting. Obviously, that's not possible, but can you build a 5-10 year roadmap for solving this problem?Google · Metrics · Hard
• How would you go about deploying Google Fiber to a new city, assuming you were part of the original roll-out team?Google · Metrics · Hard
• You are a PM and your product (B2B) has had low engagement for the past 3 months. How will you find the cause and what solution will you provide?Google · Metrics · Medium
• What is the biggest problem Uber faces and how would you solve it?Google · Metrics · Hard
• What would you build if you were a start-up in the food delivery space?Google · Metrics · Hard
• As an ethical programming consultant for autonomous vehicles, how do you handle challenging situations where the vehicle must make decisions with potential negative consequences, like swerving to avoid a pedestrian at the risk of passenger safety?Google · Metrics · Hard
• For a Google Search PM role, which is more important to focus on—mean or median—and why?Google · Metrics · Medium
• How would you define and track success metrics for an AI-powered feature post-launch?Google · Metrics · Hard

Estimation questions (157)

• YouTube Red is a premium service without ads. Assume that 1.5% of initial YouTube user base signs up for the service. What is the lifetime revenue Google generates from those users?Google · Estimation · Hard
• How much would it cost to set up WiFi in New York?Google · Estimation · Medium
• How many dentists are there in New York?Google · Estimation · Easy
• How many Pianists are there in New York city?Google · Estimation · Easy
• Estimate the total number of videos on YouTube.Google · Estimation · Easy
• How many airports are in the US and in the World?Google · Estimation · Easy
• How many balls does it take to fill a 16x16 ft room?Google · Estimation · Easy
• How would you design a service like Instagram? Estimate server and storage requirement for peak traffic.Google · Estimation · Hard
• How much storage is required to store all of the images on Google Maps?Google · Estimation · Hard
• How much revenue did Gmail make from ads in the USA last year?Google · Estimation · Medium
• Estimate total storage capacity for all videos on Youtube.Google · Estimation · Medium
• Estimate the daily bandwidth consumed by YouTube globally.Google · Estimation · Medium
• How much money is spent in the USA per year on gas?Google · Estimation · Easy
• Estimate when you will get a Tesla Model 3 if you make a reservation today.Google · Estimation · Medium
• How many elevators should an average office building have?Google · Estimation · Easy
• Estimate the number of Tesla Model3s in California.Google · Estimation · Medium
• A company has launched a new drug that eliminates the need for sleep. How would you price this drug?Google · Estimation · Hard
• Estimate the number of hotels in NYC.Google · Estimation · Easy
• Estimate the number of YouTube users.Google · Estimation · Easy
• Estimate the number of passengers arriving in SF airport every day.Google · Estimation · Easy
• Estimate the cost of storing Google Photos on the photos app.Google · Estimation · Medium
• You have a grocery delivery service that delivers food within 24 hours. How many trucks would you need to operate it?Google · Estimation · Medium
• Estimate the total number of millennials who own homes in the US.Google · Estimation · Medium
• What is the market size of toilet paper in the US?Google · Estimation · Easy
• How many queries per second does Gmail get?Google · Estimation · Easy
• How would you estimate the number of new users Amazon gets in a day?Google · Estimation · Easy
• How do you decide how many cash registers you need for a new Walmart store?Google · Estimation · Medium
• Calculate the number of queries answered by Google per second.Google · Estimation · Easy
• How many kindergarten teachers are there in USA?Google · Estimation · Easy
• How many apps are in the Apple App Store or Android Playstore?Google · Estimation · Easy
• Estimate the market size for Google Fi.Google · Estimation · Medium
• How much storage space is required to host all the images of Google Street View?Google · Estimation · Hard
• How much time is spent by people while waiting in their vehicles at traffic signals in the US?Google · Estimation · Medium
• Estimate how many trains operate in the NYC subway.Google · Estimation · Easy
• Estimate the number of bicycles required to start a bike sharing operation in a big city.Google · Estimation · Medium
• Imagine you created a new type of product that would replace the mobile phone. How would you determine how many units to manufacture?Google · Estimation · Hard
• How many GSuite users are there given GSuite revenue is US $7B?Google · Estimation · Easy
• How many passengers are in planes in the air at any given time in the U.S.A.?Google · Estimation · Easy
• What is the market for driverless cars in 2020?Google · Estimation · Easy
• How many mobile phones are there in the world?Google · Estimation · Easy
• How would you estimate Google AdSense revenue?Google · Estimation · Medium
• How many pixel phones were sold by Google worldwide in the last 12 months?Google · Estimation · Medium
• Estimate the memory needed for Nest cameras for the fiscal year 2020.Google · Estimation · Medium
• Estimate the number of Uber rides.Google · Estimation · Easy
• How much storage space do you need for Google Maps?Google · Estimation · Medium
• How would you estimate the bandwidth of Gmail for a community in Mars?Google · Estimation · Hard
• How would you estimate the total number of cars right now in Highway 101 between San Francisco and Mountain View?Google · Estimation · Medium
• Estimate the number of planes that are in the air in an hour.Google · Estimation · Easy
• What is the market for income tax software in the US?Google · Estimation · Easy
• How would you identify all the potholes in the United States?Google · Estimation · Medium
• Estimate the total number of hours required for Americans to do their laundry every year.Google · Estimation · Easy
• There is a colony of 1000 people on the moon. Estimate the bandwidth needed. How would you provide internet to them?Google · Estimation · Hard
• Estimate how many product managers work at Google?Google · Estimation · Easy
• What is the market size of the Art market in the UK?Google · Estimation · Easy
• How many drones would be needed to deliver all of Fedex's packages in the US?Google · Estimation · Hard
• Estimate the number of gas stations in SF city.Google · Estimation · Easy
• How much revenue does your favorite restaurant makes each year?Google · Estimation · Easy
• How would you go about finding out the number of red cars in China?Google · Estimation · Medium
• How many iPhone and Android Phones are there in the world? (Assume everyone has only 1 phone each)Google · Estimation · Easy
• How many calories are in a typical grocery store item?Google · Estimation · Easy
• Estimate waiting time at the airport. Come up with a moonshot idea to reduce the waiting time.Google · Estimation · Hard
• Estimate the number of drones necessary to complete all deliveries for Amazon in NYC.Google · Estimation · Medium
• A biotech company has launched a cell-based blood that reduces dependence on donation. How much would you price this blood?Google · Estimation · Hard
• Estimate the weight of of a 747 airplane.Google · Estimation · Easy
• If you are planning to kick off YouTube TV in SFO, how much bandwidth would be required?Google · Estimation · Medium
• How many videos can you watch with 2 GB of data?Google · Estimation · Easy
• Tesla claims it will make Auto Garage Shops obsolete due to zero maintenance. Estimate how many jobs will be impacted in the US in 5 years and 10 years.Google · Estimation · Hard
• How would you estimate the space required for Google Photos?Google · Estimation · Medium
• How much time is spent waiting per day for a real human in the Automated Systems in the US?Google · Estimation · Hard
• What is the market size of toilet paper in Canada?Google · Estimation · Easy
• How much revenue can Google get from driverless cars?Google · Estimation · Hard
• How much revenue does Airbnb generate annually in India?Google · Estimation · Easy
• Google is looking to enter the language learning market. What is the Total Addressable Market (TAM) for people who want to learn any new languages?Google · Estimation · Medium
• How many windows are there in New York City?Google · Estimation · Easy
• Estimate the number of people passing through security scans daily in an airport of your choice.Google · Estimation · Easy
• Estimate the number of electric vehicle charging stations in the US.Google · Estimation · Easy
• How many restaurants are there in New York?Google · Estimation · Easy
• How many cars are on 101 between San Francisco and Mountain View?Google · Estimation · Easy
• What is the revenue of Bing?Google · Estimation · Easy
• Should Amazon increase the price of Prime Membership? If so, estimate the revenue generated or lost.Google · Estimation · Hard
• How many articles does the average American read in a month?Google · Estimation · Easy
• Estimate the number of videos uploaded to Youtube per day.Google · Estimation · Easy
• Estimate the ad revenue of a photo sharing social media app.Google · Estimation · Medium
• Estimate the number of travelers in India per day.Google · Estimation · Easy
• How many airplanes fly everyday in the world?Google · Estimation · Easy
• How much space would you need for a photo storage device?Google · Estimation · Easy
• Estimate the number of passwords hacked around the world annually.Google · Estimation · Medium
• How many police stations are there in the US?Google · Estimation · Easy
• How much will it cost for Facebook to add one additional user?Google · Estimation · Medium
• How many new cars were manufactured last year?Google · Estimation · Easy
• Estimate the number of students and interns in and around New York.Google · Estimation · Easy
• Pick your favorite city. How long would it take to get Google Street Views images for the entire city?Google · Estimation · Medium
• Count the number of soccer balls that can be accommodated on a soccer field.Google · Estimation · Medium
• Estimate the number of attorneys in the US.Google · Estimation · Easy
• Estimate the number of hours wasted in traffic each year.Google · Estimation · Easy
• How much time does it take to send an email to Mars?Google · Estimation · Easy
• If you were launching a bike sharing app in NYC, how many people would be interested in it?Google · Estimation · Medium
• How many computers does Google own?Google · Estimation · Easy
• How many elevators are needed in a mall?Google · Estimation · Easy
• An airport closed down for a day due to inclement weather. How long does it take to get caught up?Google · Estimation · Hard
• How many drones do you need to serve the Bay area?Google · Estimation · Medium
• Estimate the total dollar amount of online sales for fruits and vegetables per year in US.Google · Estimation · Medium
• What is the total addressable market (TAM) for a new battery technology in the US market?Google · Estimation · Medium
• Google wants to enter the space of construction technology, specifically focusing on shortening the time it takes to construct a building. How would you estimate the market size for this in the US?Google · Estimation · Hard
• How many potential TV buyers are there in NY? Walk us through your thought process.Google · Estimation · Easy
• Estimate the number of piano tuners in San Francisco.Google · Estimation · Easy
• How many X-Rays are done in the World in a Year?Google · Estimation · Easy
• Estimate the aggregate number of miles joggers run in Central Park NY City in a year.Google · Estimation · Easy
• Estimate the total number of cows in Canada.Google · Estimation · Easy
• What are the estimated number of “incidents” that could be reported by users of Waymo in the SF Bay Area?Google · Estimation · Hard
• Assume the US Govt wants to provide free internet storage to all its citizens. Create a program to manage it and estimate the 3 year cost for the program.Google · Estimation · Hard
• How much does the US spend in dog food each year?Google · Estimation · Easy
• Estimate the amount of money spent each year at movie theatres in the US.Google · Estimation · Easy
• Estimate how much data YouTube delivers every day.Google · Estimation · Easy
• Estimate the revenue of Netflix.Google · Estimation · Easy
• What is the size of the European Shoe market?Google · Estimation · Easy
• Google Streetview data for San Francisco is lost. What's the cost to replace it?Google · Estimation · Medium
• How many bricks are there in New York?Google · Estimation · Easy
• Estimate the sanitizer market in the USA.Google · Estimation · Easy
• Estimate the number of emails that the city of San Francisco receives.Google · Estimation · Easy
• Estimate the amount of storage needed to store all the photos and videos taken on Pixel phones.Google · Estimation · Medium
• How much storage data will YouTube need for the next year?Google · Estimation · Medium
• How long does an average person wait at an intersection?Google · Estimation · Easy
• Estimate the number of iPads sold in Europe in 2019.Google · Estimation · Medium
• Estimate the number of videos watched on YouTube per day.Google · Estimation · Easy
• How much does a school bus weigh?Google · Estimation · Easy
• Estimate how many Zoom meetings take place over the course of the average week.Google · Estimation · Medium
• If you want to build the world's most popular mobile messaging product, how would you estimate how much network bandwidth would be used in a year?Google · Estimation · Hard
• How many video game consoles are sold each year?Google · Estimation · Easy
• Estimate the number of servers required for YouTube.Google · Estimation · Hard
• How many dollar bills are in circulation in the US?Google · Estimation · Easy
• Estimate the daily watch time of cooking videos on YouTube.Google · Estimation · Medium
• Estimate the number of vacuum sold in the US.Google · Estimation · Easy
• How many commercial flights fly in a day?Google · Estimation · Easy
• How many umbrellas are sold in a city when it rains?Google · Estimation · Easy
• Estimate the expected loss in productivity for a mid-sized app development company due to the company's switch to remote working?Google · Estimation · Hard
• Estimate the number of rideshare rides that happen for airport commutes.Google · Estimation · Medium
• If the Philadelphia airport was to shutdown for 24 hours, how long would it take to get back to running like normal? Come up with number estimates and assumptions.Google · Estimation · Hard
• Imagine there are 10,000 people on Mars. The only way of communication to Earth is through Gmail. How much bandwith is needed?Google · Estimation · Medium
• One day, all of New York's Google Maps Street View is lost. What is the cost of rebuilding it?Google · Estimation · Hard
• Estimate the number of hospital beds in the UK.Google · Estimation · Easy
• How much app related data does the Google iOS app store transmit each month?Google · Estimation · Medium
• Estimate the market share of Google Translator as an API.Google · Estimation · Hard
• How long will it take to store Strava's data on the phone while offline?Google · Estimation · Medium
• Estimate the number of incidents that could be reported by users of Waymo in the SF Bay area.Google · Estimation · Hard
• Quantify the number of linear road miles in Google Maps.Google · Estimation · Medium
• How much bandwidth does the StarWars hologram use?Google · Estimation · Medium
• What is the weight of the Empire State Building?Google · Estimation · Easy
• What are the network implications of a handheld device meant for elementary schools kids?Google · Estimation · Hard
• How much storage and bandwidth do we need for Google Drive service next year?Google · Estimation · Hard
• How many house contractors are there in the U.S.A.?Google · Estimation · Easy
• Estimate the cost of running YouTube.Google · Estimation · Hard
• How many ride-share trips occur in the US daily?Google · Estimation · Easy
• We want to improve Toronto Streetview. Google cars will drive in Toronto and take pictures. How long it will take?Google · Estimation · Medium
• Estimate hardware costs per Google Photos user.Google · Estimation · Hard
• Define the size of a computer-backed system for a local Spotify-like app.Google · Estimation · Medium
• Estimate the number of flights currently in operation.Google · Estimation · Easy

Behavioral questions (54)

• How do you know when to cut corners to get a product out the door?Shopify · Behavioral · Medium
• How do you define a good PM vs. a bad PM?Google · Behavioral · Easy
• How did you handle communicating with various types of stakeholders on a project you recently ran and what did you find most effective?Google · Behavioral · Easy
• How do you make sure you keep improving as a PM?Google · Behavioral · Easy
• What kind of project would you like to work with?Google · Behavioral · Easy
• How would you keep developers working on a product motivated and turning out quality work?Shopify · Behavioral · Easy
• In layman terms, describe your day to day activities as a Product Manager.Shopify · Behavioral · Easy
• Senior client calls you early morning to complain that the B2B product is not working (without providing any details). How would you approach this? (include technical details if applicable)Google · Behavioral · Medium
• You are a PM and you are about to enter the product launch meeting with all stakeholders. How would you prepare for that meeting?PayPal · Behavioral · Easy
• What are you looking for in your next role?Google · Behavioral · Easy
• What are your core product principles?Google · Behavioral · Easy
• As a PM, who is your most favorite team to work with and why?PayPal · Behavioral · Easy
• You are the product manager of a video conferencing app (before COVID). You ran a customer satisfaction survey with 400,000 respondents and received the following results: 40% responded with a score of 2, while 40% responded with a score of 4 on a 1-5 scale. How would you use these results?Google · Behavioral · Hard
• Why did you choose product management as a career?Google · Behavioral · Easy
• If you have only one engineering resource, where will you invest it (prioritization)? Fixing a critical bug or shipping a critical feature?Google · Behavioral · Easy
• YouTube traffic went down 5% — how would you report this issue to your manager?Google · Behavioral · Easy
• Some companies don't think they need PMs. Even Google didn't have one for a while. They think they don't need them. What's your opinion?Google · Behavioral · Hard
• As a PM at Google, describe a time when you made a data-driven product decision with limited information.Google · Behavioral · Medium
• Tell me about a product you love, but you can't get any of your friends to adopt.Google · Behavioral · Easy
• What do engineers need/expect from a product manager?Google · Behavioral · Easy
• Share a technical problem you've encountered and provide a detailed explanation of how you solved it.Google · Behavioral · Hard
• You are responsible for a product that involves multiple teams, and you need to get them on board with your strategy. How will you ensure everyone is on board?Google · Behavioral · Hard
• You are working across multiple teams, and everyone needs your time. How will you manage your time and ensure the success of the product?Google · Behavioral · Medium
• What delighted you to pick the Tesla car as a favorite product?Google · Behavioral · Easy
• Tell me about a great product you've recently encountered and why you like it.Google · Behavioral · Easy
• What excites you about product management?PayPal · Behavioral · Easy
• Give me an example where you negotiated for resources that are not in your control.Google · Behavioral · Easy
• Tell me a time when you had to challenge a teammate's unpopular opinion.Google · Behavioral · Easy
• What excites you about working on this product at Google?Google · Behavioral · Easy
• Tell me about a time you have had to drive change.Google · Behavioral · Easy
• Tell me about a time you overcame a difficult challenge.Google · Behavioral · Easy
• Your Engineering lead and UX lead disagree on the approach for your P0 quarterly item. How would you approach the situation?Google · Behavioral · Medium
• What are your 3 greatest accomplishments?Google · Behavioral · Easy
• Tell me about a product you managed from idea to launch.Google · Behavioral · Easy
• What product would you build if I were to write a blank check for an idea you have?Google · Behavioral · Hard
• Tell me about a time you failed as a product manager.PayPal · Behavioral · Easy
• If you were to give a ted talk, what would your topic be?Google · Behavioral · Easy
• Why do you want to work at Google?Google · Behavioral · Easy
• If you meet the CEO of <your current company> in the elevator, what would you say to them?Google · Behavioral · Easy
• What do you think is the most important part of being a Product Manager?Google · Behavioral · Easy
• What is the most creative thing that you have done as a Product Manager?Google · Behavioral · Easy
• Explain Twitter to someone who is completely technologically inept, focusing on simplicity and basic concepts.Google · Behavioral · Medium
• How would you explain the internet to someone with limited technological knowledge?Google · Behavioral · Medium
• Tell me about a time when you had an idea you proposed was not agreed on.Google · Behavioral · Easy
• Talk about a time when someone didn't complete the task that you wanted them to do.Google · Behavioral · Easy
• Briefly describe one of the biggest tradeoff product decisions you’ve had to make as a PM. How did you make the decision?Google · Behavioral · Medium
• Tell me about a time you had a conflict understanding client requirements and how you managed it.Google · Behavioral · Easy
• Imagine you're working in a team, and either the team or the management has decided to ship an incomplete product to meet the deadline. You believe they should postpone the launch. What would you do?Google · Behavioral · Medium
• Tell me about a time when you had to stop being a 'yes' person for your manager or senior leadership?Google · Behavioral · Medium
• Give me an example of how you would evaluate trade-offs.Google · Behavioral · Hard
• Tell me about your approach to scoping, estimation and timelining for an AI Product you have worked on.Google · Behavioral · Hard
• Describe machine learning to a 5-year-old.Google · Behavioral · Hard
• Describe a time when you had to communicate a difficult trade-off or decision to the broader team?Google · Behavioral · Hard
• Tell me about a time you made a risky product bet.Google · Behavioral · Medium

AI & Technical questions (41)

• Design a simple load balancer for Google.com. What data structures would you use?Google · AI & Technical · Hard
• How does TinyURL work?Google · AI & Technical · Easy
• How would you explain cloud computing to your grandmother?Google · AI & Technical · Easy
• What happens when you enter a URL in your browser?Google · AI & Technical · Easy
• You’re part of the Google Search web spam team. How would you detect duplicate websites?Google · AI & Technical · Hard
• Explain the data pipeline for the last AI project you worked on. What were the top challenges in getting data, and how did you resolve them?Google · AI & Technical · Hard
• How would you implement the sync feature of Google Drive app or Google Docs? How would you design the DB for G-drive?Google · AI & Technical · Hard
• How would you design an algorithm to source data from the USDA and display on Google nutrition?Google · AI & Technical · Hard
• How does the system design for Strava work?Google · AI & Technical · Hard
• You're the CTO of a company. Design a program that provides unique IDs upon requests from a client. This program will be used by Facebook and Google and needs to scale.Google · AI & Technical · Hard
• How would you decrease the amount of storage needed for storing e-mail messages for Gmail?Google · AI & Technical · Hard
• The Chrome team is looking to reduce power utilization on mobile phones when using the browser. How would you go about solving this problem?Google · AI & Technical · Medium
• Explain the challenges in training LLMs. How will you set up your team to achieve training objectives given the challenges you listed, on time and within budget?Google · AI & Technical · Hard
• Explain PageRank to a five-year-old.Google · AI & Technical · Easy
• What are the various strategies used by recommendations engines?Google · AI & Technical · Medium
• What are the latest techniques available to customize/fine-tune LLMs? Explain one in detail to your leader, who knows very little about ML/AI.Google · AI & Technical · Hard
• Draw out the components of a data pipeline and describe how data flows through (for a healthcare data use case).Google · AI & Technical · Hard
• How does Google Ads work such that it delivers the right ad in 50ms?Google · AI & Technical · Hard
• How would you make internet work in Mars?Google · AI & Technical · Hard
• How does Google Maps compute ETA?Google · AI & Technical · Medium
• What has changed since the 1990s (days of AOL) to make the internet faster?Google · AI & Technical · Easy
• Write a code to increment an array of digits (0 to 9).Google · AI & Technical · Hard
• If you were to write an algorithm to solve Hangman, what would that look like?Google · AI & Technical · Hard
• Design a URL shortener like Bit.lyGoogle · AI & Technical · Medium
• Describe how booking works in the Uber app.Google · AI & Technical · Easy
• Design an API and schema for a shopping list app.Google · AI & Technical · Hard
• How do you design an API?Google · AI & Technical · Easy
• How would you design the technical aspect of location sharing in Google Maps?Google · AI & Technical · Hard
• How would you reduce the total storage required by Google Photos?Google · AI & Technical · Hard
• How technically deep are you? Describe a project where you had a large impact on technical direction. Draw the diagram of a system you are familiar with (in as much detail).Google · AI & Technical · Hard
• How would you make the internet faster?Google · AI & Technical · Hard
• Design a system to store large videos.Google · AI & Technical · Hard
• What happens with Google Maps when you type in its search bar?Google · AI & Technical · Easy
• You are building an app that syncs with weighing scales that users use to weigh themselves. This app shows the trend chart of the weight. What system will you design? What kind of team will you want to develop this product?Google · AI & Technical · Hard
• How would you design an algorithm to rank ads in the Google Play Store?Google · AI & Technical · Hard
• What evaluation metrics can be used to judge LLM generation quality in your AI Products?Google · AI & Technical · Hard
• How would you design an experiment to evaluate a generative AI feature when outputs are non-deterministic?OpenAI · AI & Technical · Hard
• Design a RAG-based system to support content moderation at scale, specifically for identifying misinformation.Google · AI & Technical · Hard
• How should Google ensure AI-generated search results remain unbiased and factual?Google · AI & Technical · Hard
• You’re given a new model that improves accuracy by 20% but doubles latency. Would you ship it? Walk me through your decision.OpenAI · AI & Technical · Hard
• In what situations would you explicitly avoid using RAG and choose prompting or fine-tuning instead?OpenAI · AI & Technical · Hard

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