Google Analytics Prompts
A question bank for Google Product Management Product Analytics Interviews: a list of Product Manager Interview questions asked at Google for Analytics and sometimes Craft & Execution.
Estimation
How much will it cost for Facebook to add one additional user?
How many iPhone and Android Phones are there in the world?
How would you calculate the total number of automobiles running in the city of Bangalore?
Calculate the number of queries answered by Google per second.
Estimate the market size for Google Fi.
How many video game consoles are sold each year?
Estimate total storage capacity for all videos on Youtube.
Estimate the daily bandwidth consumed by YouTube globally.
Estimate how much does it cost to store google photos
How much should we pay for a Pixel 7 phone ad at a concert?
Calculate the network bandwidth required to support a communications contract between a colony on Mars and Earth
How much storage does Google Maps takes?
If FedEx were to deliver all of their packages via drones, how many drones would they need?
Estimate total MacBook sales for each of the next 5 years.
What is the storage space required to host all images on Google Street View?
What is the market size for X in the US?
Where X is anything from toilet paper to cellphones.
How many restaurant reviews are written on Google Reviews every month?
How many kindergarten teachers are there in the US?
How much ad revenue does X Google product make every year?
Think: YouTube, Gmail, Google Maps
How many computers does Google own?
What is the market size for driverless cars in 2025?
How many dentists are there in New York?
How many bicycles do you need to start a bike-sharing service in New York?
What is the required Internet bandwidth for an average college campus?
How many passengers are in the air on a plane at any given time in the US?
You are opening a new Walmart store. How many cash registers do you need?
How much money is spent on gas in the US every year?
Tradeoffs, Etc.
What data points would you would like to track to know if zoom meeting was successful or not?
Facebook Newsfeed engagement is down 10%. How would you report this issue to the CEO?
How could you use logs to determine if a new product is successful?
You are running an ABC experiment ABC and both tests are doing exactly the same how do you decide what to launch
ABC test, A is baseline, B is doing 10% better than A, and C is doing 10% better than A. how do you decide go with B or C when both are doing better than what we already have
You are PM for new Google meet app, after few months of launch play store review average review is 3 stars . Major reviews polarizing either 40% 5 star or 40 % with 1 star. How will be try to identify drop in the rating.
You just joined the Search Ads team and noticed that 3 products are broken: the pipeline for serving ads to users, an ML model for ad targeting, and a dashboard for advertisers. How would you decide which order to fix these in?
Multistep Analytics
You were recently hired as a Product Manager for an education portal. It's Website that has courses that people can take, for example, Python programming. Your product is close to launching.
What metrics are you interested in tracking and preparing for and why?
Several follow up questions:
Course launches, 2-weeks in and conversions are at 10%. What do you do?
Let’s say 10K go to the page but only 100 add to cart and only 10 convert; what is your approach?
Design Algorithm
How would you go about personalizing a music streaming service like Spotify or YouTube music? (Can also be a design question depending on interviewer)
Metrics
If you were the PM on Airbnb’s “host success” team, what success metrics would you track?
You are the PM for YouTube analytics. What are your three most important metrics?
What data points would you like to track to know if the zoom meeting was successful?
How would you measure the success of Google Hangouts?
