What is your favorite Google product, and how would you improve it? — Associate Product Manager, January 2016
If you wanted to bring your dog to work but one of your team members was allergic to dogs what would you do? — Associate Account Strategist, December 2014
If ads were removed from YouTube, how would you monetize it? - Associate Account Strategist, January 2016
Which do you think has more advertising potential in Boston, a flower shop or funeral home? — Account Strategist, October 2015
A coin was flipped 1000 times and there were 560 heads. Do you think the coin is biased? — Quantitative Analyst, September 2015
Name a prank you would pull on x manager if you were hired. — Google Applications Support Engineer, June 2014
What is your opinion on whether or not individuals should be required to use their official name when opening a gmail or Google + account? — Administrative Assistant Interview, April 2014
If you could be remembered for one sentence, what would it be? — Associate Account Strategist Interview, March 2014
If you could only choose one song to play every time you walked into a room for the rest of your life, what would it be? — Associate Account Strategist Interview, March 2014
How do you think the digital advertising world will change in the next 3 years? — Creative Director, January 2016
What three things would you change at your university/work place if you were CEO today? — Account Strategist Interview, April 2014
You have a grocery delivery service (similar to Amazon Fresh) which delivers food within 24 hours. Estimate how many trucks you need to operate this service. — Product Manager, November 2015
Tell me what you think about Google charging users $1/month to use GMail. — BOLD Candidate, October 2015
Tell me something about you that isn't on your resume. — Associate Account Strategist Interview, March 2014
Model raindrops falling on a sidewalk (sidewalk is 1m and raindrops are 1cm). How could we know when the sidewalk is completely wet? — Software Engineer, January 2016
How would I explain the importance of HTML 5 to Larry Page and then to my grandma. — Creative Specialist, January 2016
The best question in my opinion was, they asked me at this stage whether you prefer earning or learning. — Software Engineer, January 2016
If I gave you 10 million dollars right now, what would you do? — Associate Account Strategist, May 2014
Define a service that would allow you to travel to the future. — Interaction Designer, December 2015
How could you solve humankind's biggest crisis given one billion dollars and a spacecraft? — Database Administrator, December 2015
You have a colony on Mars that you want to communicate with. How do you build a system to communicate with them? — Associate Product Manager, November 2014
If you had access to a bank's database, how would you use that information to design an ATM for elderly people? — Associate Product Manager, February 2015
Design a mobile social app for a chain of local orthodontist offices. — Product Manager, November 2015
What are the number of new book titles published in the US each year? — Product Manager, November 2015
How would you solve homelessness in downtown San Francisco? — Product Manager, November 2015
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Lisa Eadicicco contributed to an earlier version of this story.
