How to Answer an Either/Or Interview Question

Hi Jeff, thank you for the great contents. Ive been referring to your videos before my first phone interview for non technical role. Your videos were really helpful. Anyway its been two weeks since the phone interview and have not gotten feedback from the recruiter yet. Should I wait or send a follow up email? Thanks.

Hi Jeff, I just wanted to thank you for all your videos! I found them extremely helpful throughout my interview process and I'm happy to say that I just accepted an offer as a data analyst at Google! Thank you so much!

Hi Jeff! I’ve been watching all of your videos ahead of my hiring manager interview this week for a non-tech role. Would the hypothetical questions be related to the job description? Or completely random like opening a bakery?

Does recuriter see interview feedback before full loop is complete?

Awesome video.

hi Jeff, thank you so much for the videos. i have one question related to the CFAS method. After interviewer has responded to our clarifying questions, what are the chances that we need to tailor the answers/solutions/concepts that we have prepared? Can we still use the same assumptions that we have prepared and answer the questions? Thank you!

Hi Jeff, thank you for sharing all those useful information, I viewed a lot of your videos to prepare for my Google interview! The recent interview I did lasted only 25 mins while the scheduled time should be 45m. My interviewer showed up 5mins later than scheduled time and ended it sooner. Is this normal? Does it mean the interviewer is not satisfied with my answers? It was my 3rd interview and I have one more (the last session) 2 days later but now I worry if I still have chance to land this job 😭. Could u share ur comments for my reference? Thanks a lot! 🙏

Hi Jeff, what is the tea exploration call in GCP about after all the 4 interviews. I did not find any information anywhere. Thank you!

Can you please make video on Google Code Review Interviews?

Hey Jeff! Thank you for your videos! They've helped me a lot during my interview process at Google. I had the hypothetical scenario interview (UXR role) recently, but I think it didn't go well. I tried to answer using the CFAS, but the interviewer cut me off several times, so I couldn't provide a complete description/explanation of the framework and assumptions. The interviewer even cut me off when I was giving the solution. Is that normal? It felt like the interviewer wanted to finish sooner, but we had more than enough time.

Man I just completed three rounds for a partner sales roles. All three interviewed were mildly confused on what the whole CFAS structure was 😟 is this possible only a Google and GCP thing. They were just looking for answers. I hope I did well. Regardless thanks for everything you do.. you are making hundreds of life’s financially better. :) 🙏🏿

Hi Jeff, thanks for all videos. I am going to have an interview with HM next week. Could you please provide me some example of hypothetical question for finance role? I assume this is role related. Is that correct? Appreciate your help indeed!

Hi Jeff. First, thank you for uploading all the videos here. They've helped me pass the RRK round, and I'll be conducting the G&L and GCA soon. One thing that I'm still confused about is the solution part. You've mentioned only 'solving one concept at a time'. Does this mean I should only cover one of the items from my framework, say goals/objectives, if I'm going to use the GHBTRRSSS. Or it could also be that the interviewers are not interested in any of the concepts in my framework and want me to rethink the question, such as if I've totally got what they wanted to ask. Thank you for reading my comments :).

Thank you so much Jeff, I made some notes below:
CFAS method: the structure to answer hypothetical questions
• C - Clarification: ask clarifying questions to better understand the questions more comprehensively
• F - Framework: establish key items & concepts to solve problems
• A - Assumptions: give role related assumptions to narrow the focus
• S - Solve: solve 1 concept at a time

Transition & spaces:
Transition: give better flow to our answers
• Clarification
○ "there are a few things I would like to clarify"
○ "A few additional questions I have are"
• Framework
○ "A few items we might want to focus on"
○ "some concept we should explore"
○ "in order to solve, a few items we might want to discuss are"
○ Give concepts, and then ask "Sue, I think we should start by focusing on X, but is there any other area you want to focus on?"
• Assumptions
○ "If we are going to discuss xxx, let's make a few assumptions"
○ "we are going to take those assumptions and focus on X. The first step I would take is xxx"
• Solve
○ When get to the end of the solution, "Sue, I think it would be super interested to dive a little more into concept A or concept B. Or, we could go back to one of those initial concept I mentioned in C and talk about more on that item. Is there any one area you prefer？"
Space: give space for interviewer to talk about what they want to talk.

Google makes the interview harder than the role itself 😂

Hi Jeff! Thanks for this video. I'd love to know what the difference between GCA-type interview questions are and Hypothetical questions. During an interview for Google, do you think it's appropriate to clarify if they're asking a GCA-type question or a Hypothetical question? Thanks :)

Hi Jeff I am studying for Google Cybersecurity Professional my problem is I am 68 years old would Google give me a shot or I have no shot because of my age

Love the page but this sorta screwed me up :/. Not only did my interviewer immediately go - “you don’t need to answer like that”, but I spent lotta time memorizing these steps and wording verbatim - that I could barely remember the hypothetical I was asked.

Follow STAR format for behavioral. As far as this goes, have a couple follow-ups - come up with some hypotheses and explain how you got there.

Not sure if this was meant to follow word for word but it took a lot of the causality from the interview that I thought was going very well until this point.


Aside from that - I had a great intro, manager liked me, great behavioral, and questions back. I really hope this portion didn’t cost me but just wanted to let ppl know . Definitely could be based on what works for you + your interviewer’s style but just putting that out there.

Hey Jeff, thank you so much for your informative input! I have a question regarding the hypothetical questions. Should I also be answering the hypothetical questions in the CFAS method during a RRK interview?

Hi Jeff, are hypotthetical questions asked for SWE L3 role? Thank You!

Hi everyone! These two areas will greatly improve your ability to have success with hypothetical questions at Google, good luck!!