I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Mar 2014
Interview
I had a phone interview with the hiring manager. Then I got invitation to onsite interviewed. I talked to a junior product manager and a senior product managers. I thought the conversation went well. Then I was interviewed by an engineer. He asked me about a sorting question, which I didn't know how to answer at all. The last time I did any algorithm was 10 years ago.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. how to design an elevator
2. how to design an app store
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.
You would have to do a hiring assessment first, then a recruiter screening follows. First round interview with the hiring manager. Majorly product sense and product improvement. The questions were not direct though.
Overall a lot of steps to the interview process. Talked to different people and had opportunities to ask questions. Many different stages which made it a lengthy process overall. Wasn't too bad.
