Standard phone screen going over my background followed by a strategy and an estimation question. It all felt kinda rushed and a lot of questions were being thrown, maybe to throw me off.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you define the strategy for YouTube over 5 years
It was a 45 mins phone interview. 1) Questions about past experience based on resume, 2) behavioral questions listed below, and 3) estimation questions were asked during the whole process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is your favorite application and how to improve it?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Google in Apr 2019
Interview
Attended 2 phone screens by Product Managers, followed by onsite to Mountain View. Was interviewed by 1 Software Engineer, 4 Product Managers and a lunch squeezed in with another Product Manager that was not part of the interview. The questions focused on analytical, product design, strategy and user metric capabilities. The Product Manager interviewers were nice but it was hard to gauge what they were thinking or expecting to see. I was disappointed with the technical round taken by the Software Engineer. Even though it was "technical", he focused mostly on product design and metrics just like all the remaining interviews with the PMs, and I had spent a lot of time brushing up on technical concepts.