I applied through an employee referral. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in May 2013
Interview
Referred by an employee for a very suitable position. Given my previous experience, skills and need the interview process was difficult to moderately difficult level.
Initial phone screen followed by 4 onsite interviews, then 2 more phone intro/interview calls was my process. Took over all 45days to complete the entire process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Project methodologies handled in the past and when to pick what?
Type of people management styles.
How do you manage conflicts with in the team and with management?
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.
