User Experience Designer applicants have rated the interview process at Google with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 53% positive. To compare, the company-average is 61.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for User Experience Designer roles take an average of 44 days to get hired, when considering 32 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Google overall takes an average of 38 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Google as a User Experience Designer according to 32 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
One on one interview: 20%
Presentation: 16%
Skills test: 15%
Group panel interview: 8%
Other: 3%
Background check: 3%
Personality test: 2%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA)
Interview
I was approached via email by one of their recruiters, who asked me to submit my name for a position on their UX team. I was never sent a description of a job. This has happened twice in the past 3 years. In the first instance, I only spoke with a recruiter who "shopped" my resume around to teams to see if they thought there was a fit. There wasn't. The second time I got through to someone on their UX team. He asked me questions about my work and my portfolio, and he described the workplace at Google. The recruiter called me about 2-3 days later to ask how I thought the interview went; I thought it went well. I was actually pretty surprised and devastatingly disappointed when the recruiter told me that I wasn't right for Google. I didn't get any feedback about what they didn't like.
I have to rate this as a pretty negative experience on Google's part. It's incredibly rude to ask someone to interview for a position where pre-screening hasn't already taken place. In my experience, if an in-house recruiter contacts me, it's because someone has already chosen a subset of candidates. To me, this is like being personally invited to a party, and then being rejected by the bouncer.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
What's the difference between information architecture and user experience?
I had 3 rounds total. 1st round was with HR, with the remaining rounds being with the Head of Product and the tech teams. The last round was the hardest, as I had to do a portfolio review
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Google (Bengaluru)
Interview
3 rounds of tech discussion which I cleared with a positive feedback but suddenly recruiter disappeared and when I reached out for further rounds she mentioned that they have got a internal candidate for this position. Never thought Google will be such an unprofessional organisation.
I didn't make it to the interview part of the process. I highly recommend knowing someone or going through an actual recruiter if you'd like a job at Google. Cold applying online is harder to to secure a job.