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: December 14, 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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nj07305 (verified owner) –
used the guide for an east coast based partner engineering manager interview (2 rounds so far in March) and found it to be quite useful. It does not have coding or detailed engineering questions (the author specifies that as well) but definitely helps you make a difference with managerial/product part of the interviews. Recommended.
leonard (verified owner) –
(In short: Recommended & detailed interview guide from a google employee.) I used Alex’s guide for a google cloud-related program manager role based at the google sunnyvale office and I can’t be more happy. He gives insights to how “googler’s” answer their interview questions and lists the questions he and his friends got during the interview. This made a big difference during my interviews and I’m waiting for an offer now. Make yourself a favor and invest in this guide for a better chance at getting an offer.
samirbaid (verified owner) –
great experience
peekaboo (verified owner) –
Glad I’ve found this. Agree with other reviews: very useful resource with a list of interview questions you’ll get and good answers to them from recent hires.
bixbix (verified owner) –
found this guide from a glassdoor message. Used it for my APM interviews at Mountainv view campus & can’t be more happy! It is basically like you sit with 5 people who recently interviewed at Google and got offers. You pick their brains: see what they have been asked and how they answered to those questions. Invaluable resource, highly recommended..
tona (verified owner) –
I haven’t gone over the whole document in details yet but after a quick scan, looks like the author delivered what was described. I will come and edit my review if i need to, after completing it. msg to the website: please send this review as e-mail at least 2 hours after the purchase, not immediately.
gbyard (verified owner) –
delivered what was described – thanks.
asrmrc (verified owner) –
Hi Alex, thanks for the documents, I think it includes lots of useful information. My suggestion is could you also include some books or articles that is good to read too?
blink (verified owner) –
Recommended! Similar to what other reviewers mentioned: With the help of questions & answers found in Alex’s ebook, I was able to successfully pass 2 stages of my interviews that I would otherwise not be able to pass. Easy 5 stars from me, thanks!
otres11 (verified owner) –
Short version: This is a must have for Google PM candidates. Long version: Alex’s book outlines his interview stages in detail (nearly 30 pages) and it gives the questions he has been asked. There is also a file with all the questions that he and his friends who were interviewing with Google have been asked and he provides really good answers for them. I found out this interviewjoy website last week and purchased the book before my final in-person interview. Knowing all the possible questions beforehand and studying their answers definitely made me more confident for the interview and tipped the scale in favor of me. I’m now waiting for an offer 🙂 I definitely recommend this book to all candidates interviewing for PM and similar roles at Google… Thanks Alex!!