I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Google in July 2022
Interview
Phone screen with a recruiter, phone interviews with PMs and onsite with 3 back-to-back interviews. This process was the same as what I expected — I studied the Product Alliance Google Course and found it very useful because it provides what to expect and how to handle each interview question but also has a lot of useful info such as the roadmap of Google, strategic overviews on important Google products, etc. which ended up helping me ask engaging questions and I think that's how I might have stood out from other candidates.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Say we put you in charge of Google Maps' mobile app. What are some A/B tests you'd be interested in running? And what metrics would you seek to measure in these tests?
- Design a Nest product for the garage.
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.