I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Google (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2017
Interview
I was referred by a friend and got a phone interview quickly. The interview went great and there're only two questions: a design X for blind and an estimation . I used framework and thought I did well. At the end of the interview, I was asking if there is any major feedback on the interview performance. The interviewer said "not at all. you did great." and told me he joined a year ago and had to go through the same. With your cloud experience, you would be a good fit here. Two days later, the recruiter told me that he received the feedback and the hiring team decided not to move forward any further. And I was so confused but recruiter would not share any specific reason.
So interview is 70% about luck.
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Other Product Manager Interview Reviews for Google
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.