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