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Google Job Interview Questions

| Sunday, June 19, 2011
Google Job Interview Questions | (PM, SE, Testing, EM, AdWord)
  • Why do you want to join Google?
  • What do you know about Google's product and technology?
  • If you are Product Manager for Google's Adwords, how do you plan to market this?
  • What would you say during an AdWords or AdSense product seminar?
  • Who are Google competitors, and how does Google compete with them?
  • Have you ever used Google's products? Gmail?
  • What's a creative way of marketing Google's brand name and product?
  • If you are the product marketing manager for Google's Gmail product, how do you plan to market it so as to achieve 100 million customers in 6 months?

Google Interview Questions:   Product Manager
  • How would you boost the GMail subscription base?
  • What is the most efficient way to sort a million integers?
  • How would you re-position Google's offerings to counteract competitive threats from Microsoft?
  • How many golf balls can fit in a school bus? 
  • You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and your mass is proportionally reduced so as to maintain your original density. You are then thrown into an empty glass blender. The blades     will start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do?
  • How much should you charge to wash all the windows in Seattle?
  • How would you find out if a machines stack grows up or down in memory?
  • Explain a database in three sentences to your eight-year-old nephew.
  • How many times a day does a clocks hands overlap?
  • You have to get from point A to point B. You  don't know if you can get there. What would you do?
  • Imagine you have a closet full of shirts. It's very hard to find a shirt. So what can you do to organize your shirts for easy retrieval?
  • Every man in a village of 100 married couples has cheated on his wife. Every wife in the village instantly knows when a man other than her husband has cheated, but does not know when her     own husband has. The village has a law that does not allow for adultery. Any wife who can prove that her husband is unfaithful must     kill him that very day. The women of the village would never disobey     this law. One day, the queen of the village visits and announces     that at least one husband has been unfaithful. What happens?
  • In a country in which people only want boys, every family continues to have children until they have a boy. If they have a girl, they have another child. If they have a boy, they     stop. What is the proportion of boys to girls in the country?
  • If the probability of observing a car in 30 minutes on a highway is 0.95, what is the probability of observing a car in 10 minutes (assuming constant default probability)?
  • If you look at a clock and the time is 3:15, what is the angle between the hour and the minute hands? (The answer to this is not zero!)
  • Four people need to cross a rickety rope bridge to get back to their camp at night. Unfortunately, they only have one flashlight and it only has enough light left for seventeen minutes. The bridge is too dangerous to cross without a flashlight, and it's only strong enough to support two people at any given time. Each of the campers walks at a different speed. One can cross the bridge in 1 minute, another in 2 minutes, the third in 5 minutes,  and the slow poke takes 10 minutes to cross. How do the campers make     it across in 17 minutes?
  • You are at a party with a friend and 10 people     are present including you and the friend. your friend makes you a     wager that for every person you find that has the same birthday as     you, you get $1; for every person he finds that does not have the     same birthday as you, he gets $2. would you accept the wager?
  • How many piano tuners are there in the entire world?
  • You have eight balls all of the same size. 7 of them weigh the same, and one of them weighs slightly more. How can     you find the ball that is heavier by using a balance and only two     weighings?
  • You have five pirates, ranked from 5 to 1 in descending order. The top pirate has the right to propose how 100     gold coins should be divided among them. But the others get to vote     on his plan, and if fewer than half agree with him, he gets killed.     How should he allocate the gold in order to maximize his share but     live to enjoy it? (Hint: One pirate ends up with 98 percent of the gold.)
  • You are given 2 eggs. You have access to a     100-story building. Eggs can be very hard or very fragile means it     may break if dropped from the first floor or may not even break if     dropped from 100th floor. Both eggs are identical. You need to     figure out the highest floor of a 100-story building an egg can be     dropped without breaking. The question is how many drops you need to     make. You are allowed to break 2 eggs in the process.
  • Describe a technical problem you had and how you     solved it.
  • How would you design a simple search engine?
  • Design an evacuation plan for San Francisco.
  • There's a latency problem in South Africa. Diagnose it.
  • What are three long term challenges facing google?

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