I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Google
Interview
Initial email contact with a recruiter setting up a phone interview. (Beginning of December) Spoke with a product manager for the phone interview and asked a basic technical question and then some product design questions. Overall straight forward though I was very nervous as this was my first interview in over a year. After about a week I was contacted by the recruiter saying they'd like to move forward with the process and set up an on-site interview. The holiday season was upon us so this was scheduled in early January.
On-site interview consisted of an interview with a Product Manager, an Associate Product Manager, and then lunch with an Associate Product Manager. The first two were interviews while the last one was more of a get to know the company and they were told to not write any comments or evaluate anything.
The interview with the product manager consisted of a lot of design questions and trying to get to know my likes and what I'm looking for in Google. We discussed the position and some mostly design related questions.
The interview with the associate product manager was more of a design/technical type interview where I was asked to brainstorm a product with him and from there give technical details on the design.
Finally the lunch was nice, the associate product manager I spoke with was very nice and I was able to ask any and all questions to get to know the position more.
The process was fairly smooth and the recruiter was very clear in the communication and helped me through the process.
Recruiter Contact to Phone Interview (1 Week for scheduling)
Recruiter to get back on "moving forward" to on-site interview (1 Week from phone interview)
Scheduling I'd say would be roughly 1 week though I had the holiday season interfere.
Recruiter to get back about on-site interview results (1 Week after on-site interview).
The recruiter describes the process so if I were to get an offer it would have been an essay to continue the process and then another processing period which they said could be 3-4 weeks.
All interviews were roughly 45 minutes in length.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Signed NDA. But for most part I think brainstorming a product design caught me off guard during first on-site interview and kind of went down a path that made it difficult to be creative for me.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Dec 2025
Interview
applied through internal referral rejected after r2
r1: product sense, a couple general questions: what is a good pm and how do you embody those traits + 1 case question: design an app for flight experiences
r2 (2 rounds back to back): didn't do well on the first one (design an app for launching autonomous buses for public transportation) , second one went well (explain websites vs apps for ppl who are not technically adept + design a fridge for people who are colorblind)--> rejected
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
design an app for launching autonomous buses for public transportation
I applied online. The process took 6 months. I interviewed at Google (Zürich)
Interview
Many delays and waiting times. Outsourced most of their HR staff. For simple rejection, you wait months. A lengthy process with too much competition and high expectations. The selection process was very poorly conducted in terms of many people going through unnecessary interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions regarding product management and marketing aspects within the favourite daily mobile app
Only had a first round interview. I was just asked one long product design question (wasn't what I was expecting at all and also didn't follow the attached interview prep pdf in the email)