Google - Product Manager Interview Questions

Here is a new list of all Product Manager Interview questions asked at Google (PART 1 - Product Design & Product Improvement Questions)

Sep 10, 2021

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Product Improvement:

How would you improve Google Maps?
How would you improve Gmail?
How would you improve YouTube?
How would you improve WhatsApp?
How would you improve Facebook Stories?
How would you improve Yelp?
How would you improve LinkedIn?
How would you improve Grammarly?
How would you improve usage of Facebook Groups?
What is your favorite product? Why?
How would you improve YouTube?
How would you improve user engagement on WhatsApp?
How will you solve the problem of misinformation on FB?
How would you improve Google Translate?
How would you improve Google Photos?
How can Google help improve the grocery shopping experience of users?
How would you improve Uber for a football event?
How would you improve Google Drive?
Redesign Twitter for eCommerce.
How would you improve Google Home?
How would you improve Netflix?
How would you improve Google News?
How would you improve Uber?
What is your favorite non-digital product and why. If you were PM for the product, what would you release next year?
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?
As a PM for Google Maps, how would you improve the restaurant search?
You are a new PM at Google Pay. Design a feature for budgeting
How would you improve Google Pay?
How would you improve Google Chromecast?
How would you improve the Starbucks app?
Pick an airport you are familiar with. How would you improve it?
Improve the in-store grocery shopping experience.
How would you improve Google Docs?
How would you improve Waze as a PM?
How do you improve book/pdf/article reading experience on Chrome on mobile or tablet?
How would you improve Google Hangouts?
What is your favorite Google product? Pick one, and describe how to improve it.
How would you improve Dropbox?
How would you improve engagement in Trello?
How would you improve a coffee machine used in offices?
Think of a time you interacted with a government agency (passport, DMV, etc.) and how you would make it better.
How would you improve the airport experience?
How would you improve Google Flights?
How can you improve Google Calendar?
How would you make Google search better?
How would you improve image search?
If you have to build a new FB experience for your phone, what would you build?
Improve Google Play Store.
Which Google product don't you like and why? What would you do to improve it?
Take a grocery app - what would be the features you would suggest?
Redesign the fire hydrant.
How would you improve order conversions by optimizing the product descriptions page for a fashion eCommerce platform?
How would you reduce Gmail storage size?
How would you improve Google Assistant?
What is a non-technical product that you use every day and you like? Why do you like it? How would you improve it?
How would you improve Google Meet?
How would improve AirPods Pro?
What is the worst-designed Google product? Why? How would you improve it?
What is that one product feature that would change the landscape of DevOps/GitOps?
If you were a PM for Netflix, how would you increase watch time on TVs?
Design a content recommendation engine for New York Times to improve content/news recommendations to users.
How would you improve the user retention of Google calendar by 10x? What what you do to achieve this?
How will you increase the number of users on TikTok?
How would you improve the Version Control feature in Google Docs?
Was Google Glass a good product? Why?
You are the PM for Google Voice. How would you improve it?
Talk about a product you think is not well designed and why. How would you improve it?
How would you improve Google Earth?
How would you improve the web browsing experience?
Name 3 of your favorite non-tech products and why? Improve one of them.
How would you improve Reddit?
How would you improve the App store?
How would you improve the Pinterest experience?
Which is your favorite email client and why?
What are the top three pain points of commuting train passengers
How would you improve Google's recruiting system to reduce false negatives?
What are the Key Metrics to measure the performance of a company in the food delivery business and how can we improve the ones related to churn rate?

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Product Design:

How would you solve Dog Poop problem?
How would you go about designing a new location-sharing app for Google?
How would you design a bookshelf for children?
How would you design a product for improving teenage health?
Is there a user that is not well served by Amazon.com?
Design an ATM for the Blind
Design Facebook Movies
Design a Vending Machine for the Blind people
Design an app for the California’s Department of Motor Vehicles
How to Discover User Pain Points?
How to do User Grouping?
How would you critique a product’s design?
Design a product for event gathering for Google.
Build a Google product that enables people to learn new skills.
How would you design a "Google Refrigerator"?
Design a social travel product.
Design Youtube for dating.
You are a new PM at Google Pay. Design a feature for paying credit card bills.
How would you design a web search engine for children below 14 years old?
Design a library for the future.
Design a product to improve reading habits.
Design a washing machine for Google.
Design an alarm clock for elderly people.
Design an ATM for airports.
How would you monetize WhatsApp?
Design a product to help visually impaired people navigate through public places.
Design a Supermarket for older people.
Design a product for job seekers to create resumes and find the best matching jobs easily and quickly.
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?
Design a Camera for the Elderly
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?
Design a shower for the blind.
How would you design a heater for kids?
Design a toothbrush for young children.
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)?
Design a product that informs people about the Coronavirus.
Design a high-tech gym.
Design a smart shoe.
Design a website that makes GIFs.
Design a fire alarm system for the deaf.
There are more than 100 million people who regularly go out to bars. What can Google build for them?
Design an app that helps a museum make money.
What kind of applications would you design if you have the technology (a small device attached) that can pinpoint the exact location of a person?
Design a product to educate the masses about their own constitution.
Design a recommendation engine for Spotify.
Design an ATM system that can work during natural disasters.
Design a ride-hailing app for the blind.
How would you redesign a ceiling fan?
Design a career counseling app for students in India.
Design Lyft for deaf drivers.
What would you build with the entire world's traffic data?
How would you re-design the carwash?
Build a product to solve the dog poop problem.
Design a smart robotic vacuum.
Design a vending machine for blind people.
How would you prevent hate, misinformation, or deep-fakes on YouTube?
How would you design a consumer application for a scooter-sharing business?
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.
How would you design a bicycle renting app for tourists?
Design a product for drivers driving in rush hour.
Build a product to buy and sell antiques.
Build a mobile Gmail app for a team of Google engineers who are the first humans to land on Mars.
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?
How would you design a gardening app?
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?
How would you improve Grammarly? Should Google acquire Grammarly?
Design a product for teenagers to have more empathy.
Design a mobile app that allows users to easily buy and sell used books
Design a loyalty program for a search engine that's competing with Google & Bing.
Design a product to buy flight tickets.
Design a TV for a car.
Design a referral system for a grocery app
If Google has invented a way to make air travel 4x cheaper and 4x faster, what would you do with this technology?
Design an app for cooking
Design a bookshelf for kids
What feature would you add to a self-driving car to make it a more attractive purchase?
Design an app for an amusement park.
You are the CEO of a company that wants to offer valet parking as a service for hotels. What would you do?
Design a healthcare application that would be useful for handling COVID-19
Google recently built a piece of equipment that detects information from the human body. What kind of application would you build based on it? What type of information would you gather?
How would you build a virtual classroom and learning management system?
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.
Design a product to improve the lunch experience in XYZ company.
Design Lyft for kids.
Design an alarm clock for the blind.
How would you improve YouTube music?
How would you design Google Images?
What features should a mobile app have for hospital, focusing on patient engagement?
How do you design a camera for the elderly?
Design a restaurant app like Yelp for restaurant owners.
If you were to design a phone for Microsoft, what would that look like?
You work at Yelp. How would you create a system that would provide good advice to users of new restaurants to try?
Design a Google bicycle.
Design a product to fight climate change.
Design a product to replace smartphones in 5-7 years.
Design an app that helps a museum make money
Design a calculator for the blind.
How would you design a captain seat for a yacht in SF bay.
Design an online store to sell Bicycles to 12-year-old girls.
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?
Design a photo app for the blind.
If you were a PM for Google Nest and your development team has the means to get real-time weather data, how would you productize this technology?
You have been asked to design a software product for "NASA's Dragonfly Mission to Titan (2026)". How would you design the product?
Design an app for touring a city in an offline mode.
Design a feature for Youtube to increase engagement (specifically repeat visits) for sports/fitness enthusiasts.
Suggest a new feature for a card game.
Redesign Google's on-campus bikes.
How would you design a washing machine for the millennials?
How would you monetize Google Hangouts?
Create a platform like YouTube for artists.
Design a travel planning Mobile app.
How would you redesign a TV remote?
Design a washer and dryer.
Design a phone for the elderly.
How do you design a home automation system?
Design a smart product that uses AI for kids.
Design a mapping app for a school.
If you were the owner of a startup, and your clients are museums, how would you go about designing a product for the visitors.
Design an app for the DMV (California’s Department of Motor Vehicles).
Design a smart fridge. Take me through the steps to come up with the product.
If you're the Product Owner for Google Inbox, what would your roadmap look like?
Design Google Glass for blind people.
How would you approach the design and go-to-market for a completely new bike concept?
Design an app for online shopping experience.
How would you design a security badge system for Google buildings?
You are the Product Manager of a ride-share app. What features would you create to prepare the company for autonomous vehicles?
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?
How would you build a healthcare product?
Design a travel app for Google.
Design a product (digital or physical) to introduce a reward mechanism for cyclists (could be extrinsic or intrinsic).
How would you design a supermarket for the elderly?
How would you redesign a Microwave?
Design a question and answer website like Quora.
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?
How would you design a wifi network for your city?
Design an application for salons in nearby areas. The solution should be like a marketplace for salon owners and consumers.
Design a residential apartment complex for Google.
You are a new PM at Google. Design a wearable for children.
How would you select one particular zoom level for the MVP launch of the Google Maps mobile app?
How would you design a trash can?
Design an educational tool for K-12 students.
Design a washroom for an office floor.
What should you build to improve productivity when working from home?
Imagine there is new tech that can sense your mood automatically. What do you build with it?
You are the CEO of a company that wants to revolutionize the restaurant industry. What would you do?
Design an application that allows Google employees to stay fit and track their health.
Design a refrigerator for the blind.
How would design an Uber for laundry?
How would you design a product that increases the consumption of fruit in the US?
Calculate and design a framework for students to choose their dream college.
How would you design a "Pay Later" feature for the Amazon app?
How would you design an EV bike renting application for college students (residing on the campus)?
You are a PM at Google. Design a feature for a product meant for a completely blind person.
Redesign an intercity bus stand for a Tier-2 city in your country.
How do you design a Roomba vacuum for the stairs?
Design a refrigerator for offices.
Design a Facebook feature that measures user happiness.
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?
Design a car music system for high-end luxury cars.
Design a self-driving car.
Design a way for people to find apartments.
How would you design an ideal Chicken Coop?
Design an app for a community of Celiac disease patients.
Design a product that prevents flat tires in cars.
Design a website for monthly rental units.
Give an example of a poorly designed product.
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?
How would you design a bridge connecting Africa with South America?
Design a product for solo women travelers.
Facebook is a multinational company with many offices around the world. Its employees are constantly traveling. Build a solution for FB employee’s travel.
How would you make Google faster?
If you have to change a garage door what would you change?
Design a smart building.
Design a convenience store for a retirement home.
Design an app for parents to track their child's performance in school.
Design a music product for deaf people.
Imagine Google has a messaging service. How would you monetize it?
Tell me about a non-technology product that you purchased recently that you love. What do you love about it? What would you change about it? Imagine we are 50 years in the future, what would this product be capable of doing?
Technical case: If you were to create Google Local Offers (which the 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?
Design an app that helps people find a doctor.
Design a product for people with food restrictions.
How would you design an app for truck dispatchers?
Design a new car stereo.
How will you go about designing a music app for the blind?
Design a smartwatch for the blind.
Will you launch a separate app for YouTube Music? If so, design the experience
Design a data center on the moon for Google.
Design a food allergies app.
How would you prevent cyberbullying on Reddit?
How would you design the Android App Development Environment?
Design a personalized radio station for YouTube Music.
How would you design a digital signature solution for government and other sensitive businesses?
Design a friendly referral system for a loan company.
If you were to create an image search engine, how would you do it?
You are responsible for launching Google Tablet to restaurants. Describe how you would go about it.
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?
Design an inflight entertainment system
How would you build Google Wing?
Design an airplane for pets.
Design an online marketplace for fruits and vegetables.
Design a smart closet.
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?
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?
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.
Design a search engine for the future.
Build a feature for self-driving cars that addresses people’s inherent fear to purchase.
Design a product that helps lonely people. It should have a physical aspect to it.
Design a camera that automatically uploads.
If you wanted to create a 1-month MBA program, how would you think about structuring it?
Design a pen for an astronaut.
Searching for certain topics is often frustrating, e.g., parenting advice. Brainstorm some solutions for that.
You have to design a robot with no screen. What is it, and how will it be designed?
How would you design a product for disaster management? You can use all Google resources.
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.
If you could build any product, what would you build?
Build an attendance tracking system for NGO volunteers.
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?
Create a product for borrowers and lenders.
What new product should Google invest in and why?
Design a Membership Program for a non-profit.
You are given a team of 10 engineers at Google. What would you build?
Suggest a new feature for a PUBG mobile game
What product will you design for companies that are moving towards a permanent work-from-home model?
Design a product that would be used in the presidential election.
Assume Google Books didn't exist. How would you design Google Books?
Design a new pizza.
Pick a problem space that is relevant today. Create a solution for it.
How would you build a system on a ticketing website to handle lots of people trying to buy the same tickets at the same time?
As a PM for a major home appliance company, how would you design a refrigerator for the visually impaired?
How would you design Google Photos for West Africa?
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?
Design a product for FB or Google to help people relocate.
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?
If you were a product manager at Google, how would you design a home delivery system and grow it in Europe?
Design a grocery store for elderly people.
Design a grocery store checkout.
How should Uber design a shuttle service for commuters between SF and South Bay?
Create a new product relevant to Google's existing product line targeted at people using public transit.
Walk me through the design system of one of the products you’ve PMed.
Bay area is going to be hosting the soccer world cup in 2026. Design a futuristic vending machine that will be used inside these stadiums. During the design, also touch upon how many of them would you need per stadium?
Design a concert ticketing service.