I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in May 2015
Interview
Recruiter reached out on LinkedIn, had an initial 15-min phone conversation with her primarily to talk about the role and a little bit about my background and to set up a 45-min phone conversation with a PM
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Google wants to launch a competitor to Amazon's ereader product. Let's brainstorm some ideas
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.