I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Nov 2016
Interview
Multiple calls with different recruiters in with different specialties, my process was handed off between 5 different recruiters before an onsite. When I arrived the final recruiter did not show up, was greeted half an hour late by a temporary employee who grunted hi, showed me to a room, and sat playing games on their phone. 5 in-person interviews had a mix of expected and interesting questions, evaluation appeared to be focused on how well prepared you were for each question.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
What is something you consider to be a great product, and how would you make it 10 times better?
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.