I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Google in Sep 2015
Interview
I received an email from the Google recruiter asking if I would be interested in the PM role. We had a 15 min informational call. The recruiter was very polite and provided background about the role and responsibilities.
For the phone screen interview, the interviewer was late, gave a 3 line introduction and jumped into questions. The interview ended on time and there were 2 mins for me to ask the interviewer one question, to which I received a very vague answer. Not sure about the interviewer's experience level, did not sound like much. I do not think this guy would have passed an interview at my company.
The whole interview seemed rushed, and the interviewer seemed disinterested and arrogant. The call quality was poor, it disconnected a couple of times, I could hear my voice echo during most of the call.
Received a very polite email from the recruiter that my background did not match the role.
It seems that the same issues were experienced by many other candidates as well, hopefully they are reading these reviews and will make improvements.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Nothing exceptional, the regular questions: how would you monitor performance of a feature, what measurements would you use... if X statistic reduced, would that be a good or a bad thing...
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Palo Alto, CA) in Jun 2015
Interview
Started with one phone interview with a Product Management recruiter (very friendly), then 4 weeks later 3 interviews with PMs from different areas of the company. The first 2 were challenging but PMs wanted to be part of your thought process. 3rd interview was a lot more technical, with "estimates" questions and hard to follow.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you reduce bandwidth consumption in search when users from third 3rd world countries search?
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Google (Kirkland, WA) in Aug 2015
Interview
lengthy all day affair with back to back interviews. most everyone was great but asked me a programming question for a language I had not done in 20 years, while the interviewer said this was a mean question he was still going to ask. that being said the methodology of hiring based on difference of opinion meaning if 5 people love you and one likes you then they don't hire more particularly they all need to like you the same is strange to me but otherwise was a pleasant experience