Google Interview Guide: Questions and Answers for Google Interviews
(from an insider’s perspective)
Google Interview Guide: Interview Questions and Answers: PM, Lead, Director and all types of Manager roles – 2024.
Last Update of the Guide: October 20, 2024 (questions asked in the last few months have been added + formatting changes, typos corrected).
Most useful Google Interview Questions and Answers Preparation Resource on the internet, as reviewed by more than 100 customers!
* With the hiring slowdowns and continued layoffs in 2024, competition is now even much more challenging and getting a job at Google requires no less than a perfect interview. With the most recent update, I’ve added tips, tricks and sample answers from recent Google hires to give you that edge. Good luck with your interviews!
Google is a great company to work for, and it receives more than a million applications each year. With the advance of new AI foundation models (OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini), hiring behaviors and hiring tools undergone a significant shift in interview approaches. With this updated version, increase your chances of getting a recruitment call, impress your interviewers and differentiate yourself from the rest of the applicant pool by investing in the Google Interview Guide created by Googlers.
Thousands of people apply to various positions at Google each month and candidates prepare very diligently for it. With my current and ex-Google colleagues, I created this Google Interview Guide (ebook) that details the whole process including how to get an interview with them and the stages candidates endured during the interviews, complete with the questions you need to study to master your interviews (with answers). I’m constantly updating the guide based on our colleagues’ and new hires’ feedback.
Google Interview Guide – Who is it for?
This Google Interview Guide is relevant to all candidates who are not interviewing for a software developer role at Google (but I’ve also had a lot of customers interviewing for SDE & engineering manager roles who used it for the non-coding part of their interviews). Some of the roles that the Google Interview Questions and Answers Guide is useful for (helped candidates to get offers) are:
– Program / Product / Operation Manager and Leads
– Account Executive, Manager and Associates
– Technical Program/Product Managers
– Marketing and Industry Managers
– Sales Specialists, Enterprise Sales Executives
– Google Cloud Sales / Marketing Roles
Google Interview Guide Content
The guide(ebook) includes many sections from how to get an interview, to different answering methodologies to various kinds of questions and all types of questions you will be asked, along with answers / answer approaches and techniques. Some of the sections include answering questions about:
1. “How do you improve this product or service”?
2. How do you design X?
3. How many X are in Y? (e.g. tennis balls in a bus)
4. What is your favorite product and why?
5. How do you measure X? (e.g. success of a campaign)
6. What is the problem here?
7. How do you position / sell / market product X?
8. Behavioral Questions for managers and individual contributors.
9. + Detailed information on how to approach many other types of Google interview questions.
Important!
Investing in an interview prep resource is a big step towards bringing out your best during job interviews, so congratulations on taking the interviews seriously! Proper interview preparation can turn out to be one of your best investments. My instant download ebook helped more than 2000 people to get offers from Google in the last 5 years and I’ll be really happy if it helps you as well. Please read through all the info on this page & check reviews to get a feeling of how/if it can help you.
We hope you find this ebook useful and get a nice job offer in the end!
Disclaimer: This Google Interview Questions doc is created by Googlers and ex-Googlers to help candidates who want to make a difference in their interviews by studying a lot. It is not an official guide created by Google Inc. This guide reflects personal experiences and advice about the interview process.
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rodlaversthebest (verified owner) –
must say I’m impressed. Pretty recent examples (e.g. Pixel 6 Pro related design/pm case questions), good question/role categorizations, well outlined examples. Been to my first interview with the G and already made a positive difference.
srivash (verified owner) –
good investment. Many questions I haven’t seen elsewhere and good sample answers & categorizations. Doesn’t have technical questions(sql, coding, binary sorting etc.), so not ideal for the technical part of software engineering/developer interviews – but the author already states that in the description. Recommended!
zirapez (verified owner) –
I used Alex’s guide for industry leader interviews (sales & marketing) and highly recommend it. One of the best resources I’ve found and definitely much better than the free ones out there. A couple of extra info/knowledge here and there makes all the difference in google interviews and this guide has more than a few of them 🙂 Thanks Alex!
trapperk (verified owner) –
well worth the purchase for candidates who are looking into Google specific preparation.
loghav (verified owner) –
I think this guide was the best in terms of teaching you the “Google approach” for your interviews among the ones I’ve invested. Highly recommended. thanks.
kimball (verified owner) –
highly recommend this for Google pm interviews. Got my offer 🙂
effernandes (verified owner) –
very good resource for industry leader interviews, thanks.
vinnie (verified owner) –
most efficient and to the point guide for google interviews among the ones I’ve purchased (account strategist role). One tip for fellow candidates: You will need to prep very well for the interviews as the hiring manager told me that the number of applications skyrocketed and it is now harder than ever to get into Google. HR/hiring manager were pretty happy with my prep & answers. Hopefully waiting for an offer now. If you plan to invest in interview prep guides, this one will be my easiest recommendation. Alex was also very helpful in answering a few questions I had. Thanks Alex!
amatt (verified owner) –
I bought a few guides and this one was my go-to guide before/during the interviews. My final session also went well and expecting an offer. Alex, do you know how long should I wait to hear back from hr? (it has been 1 week). Thank you for creating this & for helping candidates!
visavi (verified owner) –
must have for google program manager interviews.