I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Jun 2016
Interview
I was not looking for a job, but a Google recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn, so I bit. I passed her phone screen and then the subsequent phone interview with a product manager. Then, I had 3 on-site interviews with other product managers. I thought 1 went very well, 1 went medium well, and 1 went just ok. I then had lunch with another product manager, which was also kind of blah. After lunch, I met back up with my interview coordinator, and he said they didn't have any more questions for me, so I could go. From what I could tell, that was neither good nor bad, but it turned out to be bad, because I got the news the next day that they weren't going to move forward with my candidacy.
Since I agreed to the NDA, I won't post the exact interview questions here, but I was surprised that all 3 of my on-site interviews each centered around one problem-solving/product design question. There were pretty much no behavioral questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Such and such governmental organization/department is "broken." How would you fix it?
The process was straightforward and moved quickly. After applying online, a recruiter reached out within a few days for a brief phone screen. That was followed by two video interviews, one with the hiring manager and one with a panel of team members focused on project planning and stakeholder communication. The whole thing wrapped up in about two weeks, and the team was responsive and clear about next steps throughout.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I walked through a specific project where a key vendor delivery slipped. I explained how I flagged the risk early in our weekly status review, reset expectations with stakeholders, re-sequenced dependent tasks, and brought the timeline back within an acceptable range by negotiating a partial early delivery.
standard 1st round digital interview, they are asking about your experience, background, some behavioural questions and technical questions. and they also share a bit more about the role, culture and expectation
Very self-driven, first of multiple rounds, where I had to take the initiative to arrive at the problem, constraints, approach, solutions, tradeoffs and reasoning behind it in a matter of 30 minutes.