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Solutions Consultant Interview Questions

1

Tell me about a time you looked at a technical process that was working well and questioned whether there was an even better strategy?

Behavioral

2

Tell me about a time you needed to rely on others to figure out how to move forward?

Behavioral

3

Tell me about encouraging or enabling a member of your team to take big risk. How did you balance the risk to the business with possible positive outcome for the organization and opportunity for learning for your direct report?

Behavioral

4

Tell me about your hiring process when you are hiring key positions such as direct reports. Where do you go for talent? What resources do you employ? What are the steps in the process?

Behavioral

5

Tell me about your most successful cloud integration strategy

Behavioral

6

The TPM�s that you manage will all be working on complex programs, how do you make sure you understand the programs well enough to guide them?

Behavioral

7

What are a few ways you would advocate for GCP?

Open-ended

8

What are the biggest risks for Google Cloud?

Open-ended

9

What are the critical components of a strong GTM strategy?

Open-ended

10

What are the three most important components of mentorship and why?

Open-ended

11

What is a company that Google should acquire to enhance their Cloud services?

Open-ended

12

What is the most difficult part of the process, creating the business case, program planning and governance, technical architecture, solution build, business modeling, or the GTM strategy? And Why?

Open-ended

13

What step/s would you take to ensure your TPM�s are set up for success in their role?

Open-ended

14

When talking with system integrators what are the most important things to keep in mind?

Open-ended

15

You are tasked with creating a new program only knowing the desired result and given no additional information, how do you make sure the program is successful?

Open-ended

16

Design and build a digital language process for me

Open-ended

17

Design and build a digital language process for me.

Open-ended

18

How do you know your user is getting the most out of their Google products?

Open-ended

19

How do you make sure a product launch goes smoothly?

Open-ended

20

How do you prioritize competing critical items?

Open-ended

21

How do you streamline complex processes?

Open-ended

22

How would you enhance the language features on YouTube for a better user experience?

Open-ended

23

Tell me about a time creating educational resources / training helped your customers have better product adoption / success?

Behavioral

24

Tell me about a time metrics uncovered a way for you to be a better partner to your client?

Behavioral

25

Tell me about a time you tried to innovate and it failed?

Behavioral

26

Tell me about a time you went above and beyond for a client to support their product needs?

Behavioral

27

We have a team of 50 people resourced to help us launch a new version of Google translate, how would you delegate them?

Open-ended

28

What are recall sets and why are they important?

Open-ended

29

What are the most important items to keep in mind when working cross functionally?

Open-ended

30

What are the three most important items to consider when onboarding a client?

Open-ended

31

What factors would you need to consider to allow all Google to understand mixed language at the same time?

Open-ended

32

What Google product would you improve and why?

Open-ended

33

What is the biggest feature change you would make to Google Translate and why?

Open-ended

34

Why is auto-translate important?

Open-ended

35

How do you anticipate user needs?

Open-ended

36

How do you ensure you are focusing on the right deliverables when you have several competing priorities?

Open-ended

37

How do you ensure your team stays connected to the company vision and the bigger picture?

Open-ended

38

In your opinion, what is the most effective way to evaluate the quality of your product or service to your internal /external customer? Give an example of a time when you used these measures to make a decision.

Open-ended

39

tell me about a time when a member of your team contributed significantly to a project outside the scope of their role. What motivated you to encourage their participation?

Behavioral

40

Tell me about a time when you had a low performing individual on your team. How did you deliver feedback to this person? Did their performance improve or did they leave the organization?

Behavioral

41

Tell me about a time you came up with the vision for a (team, product, strategic initiative) when there wasn�t a guiding vision. What was it? How did you gain buy-in and drive execution?

Behavioral

42

Tell me about a time you uncovered a significant problem in your team. What was it and how did you communicate it to your manager and to your peers or other stakeholders?

Behavioral

43

Tell me about someone that you hired that you thought was better than you in a number of areas. How did you add value to that person?

Behavioral

44

Tell me about time you had to develop a product/business model from scratch or when you dramatically changed one in a turnaround situation.

Behavioral

45

Tell me how you have created organization (or customer) value through either increased revenue stream or lowering the cost structure.

Behavioral

46

What�s your secret to success in setting stretch goals for your team that are challenging, yet achievable? Tell me about a time you didn�t hit the right balance. How did you adjust?

Open-ended

47

When your direct reports are presenting a plan or issue to you, how do you know if the underlying assumptions are the correct ones? What actions do you take to validate assumptions or data?

Open-ended

48

Give me an example of how you have helped save costs or eliminate waste within your operation.

Behavioral

49

Provide me an example of a time when you pushed the existing boundaries beyond what was normal and expected for your space and you explored new territory?

Behavioral

50

Give an example of when you had to make an important decision and had to decide between moving forward or gathering more information. What did you do? What information is necessary for you to have before acting?

Behavioral

51

How do you drive adoption for your vision/ideas? How do you know how well your idea or vision has been adopted by other teams or partners? Give a specific example highlighting one of your ideas.

Open-ended

52

Tell me about a time when you didn�t know what to do next or how to solve a challenging problem?

Behavioral

53

Tell me about a time when you had to make tradeoffs between quality and cost. How did you weigh the options? What was the result?

Behavioral

54

Tell me about a time when you have been faced with a challenge where the best way forward or strategy to adopt was not �clear cut� (i.e. there were a number of possible solutions). How did you decide on the best way forward?

Behavioral

55

Tell me about a time you looked at a key process that was working well and questioned whether it was still the right one? What assumptions were you questioning and why? Did you end up making a change to the process?

Behavioral

56

Tell me about a time you wouldn�t compromise on achieving a great outcome when others felt something was good enough. What was the situation?

Behavioral

57

Tell me about an enterprise architecture failure. What happened and how did you resolve it?

Behavioral

58

Tell me of a time when you took on work outside of your comfort area and found it rewarding?

Behavioral

59

When do you decide to go along with the group decision even if you disagree? Give me an example of a time you chose to acquiesce to the group even when you disagreed. Would you make the same decision now?

Behavioral

60

What three things you are you working on to improve your overall effectiveness?

Open-ended

61

Explain GCP to a customer that knows very little about the cloud?

Open-ended

62

Describe a time when you significantly contributed to improving morale and productivity on your team.

Behavioral

63

Give an example of a mission or goal you didn�t think was achievable. What was it and how did you help your team try to achieve it?

Behavioral

64

How do you drive consistency between Cloud processes?

Open-ended

65

How do you familiarize yourself with the complexities of your TPM�s programs?

Open-ended

66

How do you find the balance between technical, strategic, and people management?

Open-ended

67

How do you help someone develop their cloud technical skills?

Open-ended

68

How do you help your team with goal setting? How do you make sure your team is achieving the desired result?

Open-ended

69

How do you make sure cloud customers are having success?

Open-ended

70

How do you make sure engineering is providing you with good code?

Open-ended

71

How do you make sure technical processes align with more centralized processes?

Open-ended

72

How do you promote technologies that do not exist or are not currently available?

Open-ended

73

How do you set the vision?

Open-ended

74

How do you solve cross-functional challenges?

Open-ended

75

How will you create a compelling vision?

Open-ended

76

How will you solve the critical partner solutions priorities?

Open-ended

77

How would you handle a key technology decision or other important strategic decision you had to make for which there was not enough data or benchmarks.

Open-ended

78

I want you to imagine you have been at Google for a year and right around this time on of your TPM�s that is working on a critical program has an emergency requiring her to be OOO for a month, how do you step in and make sure the program continues moving forward?

Open-ended

79

If you had to change any of the features for GCP, what would those be and why?

Open-ended

80

Tell me about a creative solution you came up with to solve a challenging problem?

Behavioral

81

Tell me about a time about a time you struggled to build a relationship with someone important?

Behavioral

82

Tell me about a time when you were able to remove a serious roadblock/barrier preventing your team from making progress or having success?

Behavioral

83

Tell me about a time when you were able to remove a serious technical roadblock/barrier preventing your team from making progress? How were you able to remove the barrier? What was the outcome?

Behavioral

84

Tell me about a time where you felt your team was not moving to action quickly enough. What did you do? What were the results?

Behavioral

85

Tell me about a time you created a strong strategy?

Behavioral

86

Explain GCP to a customer that knows nothing about the cloud?

Open-ended

87

How do you determine requirements?

Open-ended

88

How do you document and issue?

Open-ended

89

How do you help someone develop their technical skills?

Open-ended

90

How do you identify industry trends?

Open-ended

91

How do you know when to escalate?

Open-ended

92

How do you make sure you are advocating for the right technologies?

Open-ended

93

How do you prioritize two urgent deadlines?

Open-ended

94

How does Netflix work in the Cloud?

Open-ended

95

Let�s pretend I know nothing about SAP cloud solutions, can you help explain to me why this can help me with my GCP service?

Open-ended

96

Let�s pretend I know nothing about VMWare cloud solutions, can you help explain to me why this can help me with my GCP service?

Open-ended

97

Tell me about a cool system architecture you built or helped to build?

Behavioral

98

Tell me about a major process improvement you drove and or made a major contribution to?

Behavioral

99

Tell me about a time a technical counterpart on the customer side did not agree with your technical assessment and how you won them over?

Behavioral

100

Tell me about a time you escalted? How got that decision? Why it was the right decison?

Behavioral

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