I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Google (San Jose, CA) in Oct 2015
Interview
I was interviews for a "general" PM position, meaning there was no particular opening for this role. However if pass a position could be created for you. This was a pre-text.
Phone interview lasted 45min sharp, then we switch to "about company" question and it was about 15-20min. Interviewer introduced himself as it was expected, but was more interested in me looking up his LinkedIn profile ( himself) than in interviewing me. He mislead me on his education degree/major. He presented himself as Ph.D. in Computer Science from Ivy league University, while in fact he is MBA as found out after the interview. Naturally, I talked to him as he is CS Ph.D, that skewed the whole conversation into entirely different dimension. The phone signal went out of range three times in row during the interview, making me feel this interview is not important. Overall feel was, too easy, something is missing here.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Jul 2015
Interview
The interview process at Google is very organized and structured. There are defined criteria and interviewers document their scoring during the interview. The process and criteria will be clearly communicated if you get selected for an interview. One thing to note is that all interview feedback is documented in detail and is referenced in the future when applying to other positions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Design a mobile social app for a chain of local orthodontist offices.
2. What are the number of new book titles published in the U.S. each year?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Kirkland, WA) in Sep 2015
Interview
One phone screen then five onsite interviews plus one hour lunch 'chat' that is not included in the feedback.
Phone Interview: You are a small-medium retailer. How would you plan to implement online ordering with pickup in store? Follow-up questions on location, managing inventory, experience for pcikup versus online shopper etc.
On Site:
1. Product Strategy - suppose you were Google CEO, what would your strategy be?
2. Product Launch - suppose I want to launch a death star, how would you go about that?
3. Debugging - Youtube has a performance problem with page load in some region, how do you diagnose.
4. Technical Depth - tell me what happens when you press enter after typing google.com into the browser.
5. Product Design - design a replacement for set top box in hotel room.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
See above for questions. The product design question on designing a replacement for a set top box was the most significant.