Career Motivation & Google Alignment Questions
Career motivation and alignment with Google's values, mission, leadership principles, and cultural expectations; explores why the candidate wants to work at Google, long-term career goals, and fit with Google's work environment.
HardTechnical
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Two marquee customers require mutually incompatible product changes that cannot be delivered concurrently. As a Solutions Architect with influence but not final authority, explain your decision framework for prioritization (including business and technical criteria), your stakeholder communication plan, compensations or mitigations for the delayed party, and how you would prevent erosion of trust with both customers.
MediumTechnical
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Design a high-level Google Cloud architecture for a healthcare client that must comply with EU GDPR and local health-data legislation. Explain choices for data locality, encryption, identity/access management, audit logging, and how you would demonstrate compliance to the customer's Data Protection Officer and legal team.
EasyBehavioral
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Share a specific example when you had to adapt quickly due to a major architecture, product, or requirement change on a customer engagement. Describe how you communicated the change to stakeholders, reprioritized work, and minimized disruption while maintaining customer trust and delivery timelines.
HardTechnical
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Design an architecture pattern and operational guardrails for enterprises using Google AI APIs that reduce model hallucination, bias, and harmful outputs. Include design elements such as input validation, human-in-the-loop, monitoring, testing strategies, prompt engineering practices, and compliance checks aligned with Google's AI Principles.
MediumTechnical
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How would you evaluate and recommend whether to use a Google-managed service (e.g., BigQuery, Cloud SQL) versus self-managing an open-source tool on Compute/ Kubernetes? List quantitative and qualitative factors you would analyze for an enterprise customer and explain how each factor affects your recommendation.
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