Google Senior Product Manager Interview Questions

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Here are some questions you can expect at the Google senior product manager interview:

Product design questions

1. Design Google Calendar for children.
2. Design Google Camera.
3. How would you improve Google Maps?
4. How would you reduce Gmail storage size?
5. How would you improve restaurant search?
6. What’s favorite Google product? What do you like or not like about it?
7. If you were to build the next killer feature for Google, what would it be?
8. You’re part of the Google Search web spam team. How would you detect duplicate websites?
9. How would you solve homelessness in downtown San Francisco?
10. How would you re-design a set-top box?
11. How would you design a Mars Rover?
12. Create a mobile app for a chain of local orthodontist offices.
13. How do you reduce bandwidth consumption for Google Search, especially for developing countries with limited bandwidth?

Analytical questions

1. Imagine we invented the Google Camera. How many Cameras would we sell in the 1st year?
2. How many queries per second does Gmail get?
3. How many iPhones are sold in the US each year?
4. What is the market for driverless cars in the year 2020?
5. How much storage and bandwidth do we need for Google Drive service in the next year?
6. How much storage do you need to store all Google Maps info?
7. How many new book titles are produced in the US, each year?
8. How many YouTube videos are watched in China, each year?

Metrics

1. Imagine you are the PM for Google+. Which metrics would you track?
2. Imagine Google+ metric X decreased 20% week over week. How would you diagnose? And what would you do?
3. After launching a new feature X, an important metric drops Y%. What would you do?
4. What's difference between median and mean?
5. Why is it important if an A/B test result is statistically significant?

Cultural fit

1. Why Google?
2. Why PM?

Technical

1. Write an algorithm that detects meeting conflicts.
2. What happens when you type a URL into a browser and hit ENTER?
3. A friend is complaining that his website is not appearing in Google Search. Why would that happen?

Strategy

1. If you were Google’s CEO, would you be concerned about Microsoft?
2. Should Google offer a Stubhub competitor? That is, sell sports, concert, and theater tickets?

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