Google Interview Questions
Practice 514 real Google interview questions for 2026. Covers Coding & Algorithms, Behavioral & Leadership, Analytics & Experimentation, Machine Learning, and System Design across Software Engineer, Data Scientist, Machine Learning Engineer, Product Manager, and Data Engineer roles — real questions from actual interviews with detailed solutions to accelerate interview preparation. This collection highlights the coding-first bar Google uses: expect heavy algorithmic work, role-related data and ML problems, a Googleyness/leadership round, and level-specific differences in what’s decisive. What’s distinctive: for Software Engineers you’ll see spatial and streaming algorithms, concurrency and async primitives, LLM-foundations and GPU-job scheduling, plus object-design problems like room assignment; Data Scientists are weighted toward causal experiments, funnel and product-metric diagnostics, bootstrap inference, and percentile/sampling algorithms; ML Engineers focus on transformer blocks, recommendation design and ranking cold-starts; PMs get Maps/Android and product-ideation tradeoffs plus throughput and revenue sizing. New-grad and intern tracks emphasize phone screens and virtual onsites; Google L4 typically keeps the loop coding-heavy while Google L5 expects stronger system-design and cross-team leadership signals. Use focused practice, mock interviews, and level-specific stories to prepare.

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Find companies similar to a given client
System Design: Retrieve Top-20 Most Similar Companies for Sales Prospecting You are given an anchor client (e.g., The Coca‑Cola Company). Design a sys...
Test a coefficient and explain t-distribution
In OLS, test whether feature j is relevant. a) State H0: β_j = 0 versus H1: β_j ≠ 0 and construct the t‑statistic t_j = b̂_j / se(b̂_j), giving the ex...
Handle p≈n linear regression with L1
This question evaluates competence in high-dimensional linear regression, penalized estimation (L1/L2/elastic net), preprocessing and feature handling...
Measure outage impact; choose fix vs build
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Estimate sales impact from reviews causally
This question evaluates a data scientist's competency in causal inference, experimental design, observational modeling, and statistical reporting for ...
Decide between two vendors under constraints
You have two third‑party search vendors, A and B, plus historical order‑level data: lead_time_days, unit_price, on_time_rate, defect_rate, min_order_q...
Diagnose unbiasedness in a messy A/B test
This question evaluates a data scientist's ability to diagnose unbiasedness of an intent-to-treat (ITT) estimator in A/B testing under noncompliance, ...
Choose a precise A/B test primary metric
A/B Test: Choose One Primary Metric for a Home-Screen CTA Color Change You are running an A/B test for an app that changes the color of its primary ho...
Describe leading cross-functional research collaboration
Behavioral Prompt: STAR Example of Cross-Functional Collaboration Provide a STAR-formatted example from your resume or research where you collaborated...
Analyze time series and design validation experiment
This question evaluates competency in time series analysis, change-point detection, count-based forecasting, causal inference and experiment design, a...
Decide confidence level and forecast video views
Decide confidence level and forecast video views Part A — Choosing 95% vs 99% confidence level You are running an A/B test and must choose the confide...
Design log management with auto-deletion
Design log management with auto-deletion Design a Bounded Log Management System with O(1) Victim Selection Context You are designing an in-memory log ...
Design distributed transactions protocol
System Design: Distributed Transactions Across Multiple Services Context You must design a distributed transactions protocol to coordinate updates acr...
Explain SLI/SLO/SLA and design monitoring
SLI vs SLO vs SLA for a Web API; Error Budgets; Monitoring and Alerting Design Context: You are designing reliability goals and on-call policies for a...
Walk resume and tackle hypotheticals
Resume Deep‑Dive and Leadership Hypotheticals (Software Engineer Onsite) Context You are asked to walk through two impactful projects from your resume...
Design lexicographic range query word store
Design a storage/data structure for a set of strings that supports lexicographic range queries. You are given a collection of words (strings), stored ...
Diagnose YouTube Usage Decline: Key Metrics and Segmentation
Diagnose YouTube Usage Decline: Key Metrics and Segmentation YouTube observes a sudden decline in daily active users and total watch time across the p...
Diagnose Google Meet Disconnections and Assess Business Impact
Diagnose Google Meet Disconnections and Assess Business Impact Enterprise clients report that Google Meet calls frequently disconnect. You need to dia...
Describe a conflict with a colleague
In a behavioral interview for a software engineering or technical role, you are asked: > Tell me about a time you had a conflict or disagreement with ...
Solve order-statistics and XOR-triplet problems
This multi-part question evaluates skills in order-statistics and efficient counting for array inversion-like problems, alongside bitwise manipulation...