I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Mar 2022
Interview
After applying online with a referral, I heard back after ~3 weeks and had the recruiter phone interview. After that, I had another phone interview (product question) and then 5 onsite interviews.
For one of the interviews, the interviewer got ~10min late, which was a bit annoying, but she was super apologetic. Overall, the interview experience was positive.
At the time, I was interviewing with Meta too, and for all my interview prep, I pretty much relied on Product Alliance, which helped a lot with my structure and what to focus on during each interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Imagine you're a PM in Google's consumer hardware organization. What would you build next?
- Pick your favorite messaging app, ideally one you've never worked on. Why do you like it, and how would you improve it?
I did a ton of mocks. A lot of questions I got in the interviews were covered in the Product Alliance interview questions list. Make sure to have your answers ready to common behavioral questions btw!
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.