Google interview notes, page 49 of 215

“Classic opener that I somehow still fumbled.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Google, Hiring Manager Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I jumped straight into crowdsourcing and local guides without really thinking through who actually suffers most from missing map data.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Google, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This wrecked me a little.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Google, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I went straight into user segments, which felt right, but I think I spent too long on it and rushed the actual design part.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Google, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I went straight to 'set up a sync meeting' which felt right but I think I skipped over the part where you actually figure out how much overlap there really is before doing anything.” The rest of the author's notes on Technical Program Manager interview at Google, Hiring Manager Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I had a decent story ready but fumbled the 'changed the product' part.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Google, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I started with population and tried to work down from there, something like residents per household, meals eaten out per week, average restaurant capacity and turnover.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Google, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The base problem was a graph traversal thing, BFS to find connected nodes.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Google, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I panicked a little choosing the product because I wanted something I could actually speak to deeply, not just something that sounded impressive.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Google, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I knew this problem.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Google, Onsite - Coding / Algorithms round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.