15 Google Phone Screen Prompts
The following are questions candidates were asked as part of phone screens. You can see the patterns of questions that mix product design & insights, strategic insights & analytics. Notice how often the favorite product comes up.
Example 1:
Estimate the number of YouTube users.
If the goal is to increase engagement, provide 3-4 features that will help reach the goal.
What metrics would you track to ensure that the engagement goal is being met with the features proposed?
Example 2:
Design a self-driving car for kids.
How would you build a investor pitch for this product?
How would you price the car?
What would be the revenue in year 1?
Example 3:
Think of a time you interacted with a government agency (passport, DMV etc). How would you make it better?
If you're the product owner for Google Inbox, what does your roadmap look like?
Estimate the number of mails that the city of San Francisco receieve.
Example 4:
What is your favorite Google product?
What are the success metrics for this product?
How would you increase this metrics usage/performance ?
How much could Google charge for every video uploaded on YouTube?
Example 5:
What keeps Sundar awake at night?
Tell me 3 products you use (Google/non-Google).
Improve 1 of them.
Estimate the TAM of chosen product
Example 6:
How would you create a playlist for a user after they listen to a single song?
Create a music service for kids
Estimate the market size of your segment.
Estimate the revenue of the service.
Example 7:
What's your favorite Google product and how would you improve it?
You are the PM for a product and you just launched the pilot. There is a competing priority on a new feature request and a bug that was found post launch. How will you decide which one to pick?
How would you create a playlist for a user after they listen to a single song?
Example 8:
What is your favorite product? How would you improve it?
Estimate the number of joggers in Central Park?
Design a feature for a collaboration tool that has to be released in 9 months?
Example 9:
What would you build if you're a startup in the Food Delivery space?
How do your solutions compare with what's in the market?
What success metrics would you measure?
Example 10:
Build a valet service for hotels
What is one product that has potential but has not done well
How do you deal with high demand in grocery stores?
Example 11:
What are your 3 favorite Google products?
Pick any one of them. How would you improve it?
Example 12:
What's your favorite product? Why do you like it?
If you were CEO, what metrics would you pick to see on a dashboard. North star?
If you were to develop a new product competing with it within 6 months, what would it be like?
What customer segment would you pick? What would be your marketing tactic for it?
Example 13:
Why AI is important to Google?
Which industry would AI have most potential?
Help first-time Airbnb hosts set the listing price?
Example 14:
Choose a product and what should you build next?
What is your metric for tracking?
How should you launch / GTM ?
Example 15:
You created a new technology* that allows you to collect every signal off of the human body - how would you use it? (5 use cases).
Calculate the storage your prioritized solutution would need in the first month.
*It is common to follow up these sensor questions with analytics when users for phone screen or strategy but can also be a design question.
