Questions that have appeared at Google for an Engineering (Case Study) Interview.

1. System Design

Question: How would you design a scalable and efficient system to analyze and categorize YouTube videos?

Question: Imagine you're tasked with building a distributed cache system that can handle a large amount of data. What considerations would you take into account?

Question: How would you design a system for managing and processing large datasets in real-time?

2. Problem Solving

Question: How would you approach the problem of detecting spam emails in Gmail?

Question: If you were asked to improve the searching algorithm of Google Search, where would you start?

Question: How would you investigate a sudden drop in user engagement on the Google Play Store?

3. Data Structure and Algorithms

Question: How would you design an efficient algorithm to find the shortest path between two nodes in a large graph?

Question: Describe a situation where a hash table would be more efficient than a tree structure.

Question: Explain how you would optimize an algorithm that’s responsible for matching Google Ads with relevant user queries.

4. Cloud Computing

Question: What factors would you consider when migrating a large-scale application to the cloud?

Question: How would you ensure that a cloud-based service can handle peak loads?

Question: Discuss strategies for optimizing resource allocation in a cloud environment.

5. Project Management

Question: How would you manage a project where the requirements are continually changing?

Question: Discuss a situation where you had to balance technical debt against feature development.

Question: How would you approach the challenge of integrating a newly acquired startup's technology into the existing Google ecosystem?