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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'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

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

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

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

'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

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

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

'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

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

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

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