The 19 toughest interview questions you may have to answer if you want to work at Google, the best company in America

'Sell me anything at all.' — Associate account strategist candidate

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'If ads were removed from YouTube, how would you monetize it?' — Associate account strategist candidate

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'Which do you think has more advertising potential in Boston, a flower shop or funeral home?' — Account strategist candidate

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'If I give you $1 million right now, what would you do?' — Associate account strategist candidate

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'What does 'being Googley' mean to you?' — Product specialist candidate

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'What is your favorite Google product, and how would you improve it?' — Associate product manager candidate

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'Estimate the number of tennis balls that can fit into a plane.' — Intern candidate

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'Define a service that would allow you to travel to the future.' — Interaction designer candidate

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'If you came to work and had 200 emails in your inbox, how would you prioritize answering those emails?' — Associate account strategist candidate

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'Google employment has doubled each year for the last x years. Given the current employment, how many years before Google employs the entire world population of y?' — Software engineer candidate

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'How do you think the digital advertising world will change in the next three years?' — Creative director candidate

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'What is the market for driverless cars in the year 2020?' — Product manager candidate

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'How would you explain cloud computing to a 6 year old?' — Product manager candidate

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'Model raindrops falling on a sidewalk (sidewalk is 1 meter and raindrops are 1 cm). How could we know when the sidewalk is completely wet?' — Software engineer candidate

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'At this stage in your life would you prefer earning or learning?' — Software engineer candidate

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'How would you explain the importance of HTML 5 to Larry Page and then to my grandma?' — Creative specialist candidate

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'You have a grocery delivery service (similar to Amazon Fresh) which delivers food within 24 hours. Estimate how many trucks you need to operate this service.' — Product manager candidate

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'A coin was flipped 1,000 times and there were 560 heads. Do you think the coin is biased?' — Quantitative analyst candidate

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'Would you remove the link to an extremist piece of writing?' — Legal assistant candidate

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