Technical Interview Questions

Google

What criteria would you use to select a programming language for developing your product at Google?

Google, Youtube

YouTube experienced an outage last week. What do you believe might have contributed to the failure of such a large system?

Google

What is the process for creating metrics for a project?

Google

WordPerfect was a word processing program that could be purchased in stores and installed many years back. Considering the technological advancements we have today, how would you, as a project manager, redesign the product to enhance its market share?

Amazon

Points nearest to the origin

Peloton, Yelp

Describe a project you collaborated on with the Engineering team. What criteria did you use to determine the project's direction, and how did you engage with Engineering throughout the process?

Amazon

What is caching, and what purpose does it serve?

Google

How would you create a database for Google Translate?

Meta (Facebook)

Describe digital advertising to your grandmother.

Ripple

Initially, the Director insisted on asking questions that were not included in the job description and shared how she intervenes with the tech team regarding coding practices, promoting her own coding ideas. This approach contradicts the policies of my current organization, as well as those of many larger companies. Their requirements and inquiries seem completely unrelated, and they lack any established standards.