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An instructor gives each member of his class a piece of paper and asks him/her to write down a number between 0 and 100. A prize will be given to the student who guesses closest to 2/3rds of the mean. What number should a student guess to maximize his/her chances of winning?
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Product Manager

Interviewed at Pocket Gems

4.2★
Oct 30, 2012

An instructor gives each member of his class a piece of paper and asks him/her to write down a number between 0 and 100. A prize will be given to the student who guesses closest to 2/3rds of the mean. What number should a student guess to maximize his/her chances of winning?

ROUND 1 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? I listed 7-8 ideas and then I was asked to choose one and do the product design for that idea. FINAL ONSITE ROUND Software Engineer Round / White board interview 1. What is object Oriented programming? 2. What is an interface? 3. What is a case and how do they work? (Beyond the Google Chrome Cache) 4. What happens when you enter a url and hit enter? (Including server side) 5. Write the algorithm for a mathematical problem 6. Write the SQL code for solving a problem that was given 5 PM rounds 7. You are the PM of Facebook's New feed. How will you select things that are to be shown to any user? (Lots of follow up questions) 8. Let's say Google is able to develop self-driving cars. What are some of the businesses you could start with that technology? 9. You work in Google's e-commerce business. The team is planning to enter into the hotel vending machine business. How will you design the product? (Used the CIRCLES framework to build the product design) 10. You are the PM of an enterprise analytics product. Your team just launched a product at end of Q4 and everyone is very exhausted from all the work that went into launching the product. Soon after the launch, the sales lead makes a request for a big feature based on customer feedback. The operations support person also circles back with a request to fix a bug. Given that you only have 2 weeks before your team goes on leave for the new year, what will you priority between the two: build new feature or fix bug? Engineering team just reported that both the actions will take 2 weeks. 11. You are the PM for a steaming video service. You come into the office and see that one key metric has dropped by 80%. What will you do? 12. You are the PM for Google Cloud developer series. Which customer will you focus on: Cloud Natives (Companies built entirely on cloud - start-ups / individuals etc.) or Legacy Enterprise (companies interested in moving to cloud) 13. Google wants to build a robot lawnmower. How will you do it? 14. Which Google product you do not like? Why? How will you improve it? Let's say you are the PM for that product. What will be your three roadmap like?
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Product Manager

Interviewed at Google

4.4★
Dec 9, 2017

ROUND 1 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? I listed 7-8 ideas and then I was asked to choose one and do the product design for that idea. FINAL ONSITE ROUND Software Engineer Round / White board interview 1. What is object Oriented programming? 2. What is an interface? 3. What is a case and how do they work? (Beyond the Google Chrome Cache) 4. What happens when you enter a url and hit enter? (Including server side) 5. Write the algorithm for a mathematical problem 6. Write the SQL code for solving a problem that was given 5 PM rounds 7. You are the PM of Facebook's New feed. How will you select things that are to be shown to any user? (Lots of follow up questions) 8. Let's say Google is able to develop self-driving cars. What are some of the businesses you could start with that technology? 9. You work in Google's e-commerce business. The team is planning to enter into the hotel vending machine business. How will you design the product? (Used the CIRCLES framework to build the product design) 10. You are the PM of an enterprise analytics product. Your team just launched a product at end of Q4 and everyone is very exhausted from all the work that went into launching the product. Soon after the launch, the sales lead makes a request for a big feature based on customer feedback. The operations support person also circles back with a request to fix a bug. Given that you only have 2 weeks before your team goes on leave for the new year, what will you priority between the two: build new feature or fix bug? Engineering team just reported that both the actions will take 2 weeks. 11. You are the PM for a steaming video service. You come into the office and see that one key metric has dropped by 80%. What will you do? 12. You are the PM for Google Cloud developer series. Which customer will you focus on: Cloud Natives (Companies built entirely on cloud - start-ups / individuals etc.) or Legacy Enterprise (companies interested in moving to cloud) 13. Google wants to build a robot lawnmower. How will you do it? 14. Which Google product you do not like? Why? How will you improve it? Let's say you are the PM for that product. What will be your three roadmap like?

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