I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Google (New York, NY) in Nov 2017
Interview
I applied through an employee referral for the post-MBA PM role. I had a very intense recruiting process which was done in 3 weeks as I had an offer to sign deadline from another company. I had a phone screening with the HR, followed by a phone round with a PM. Then I had the final onsite round of 5 PM interviews + 1 software engineer interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
ROUND 1
Google recently developed a technology that can detect human emotions in a 2 X 2 dimension (energy level and body movement). What are some of the products you can build using that technology? I listed 7-8 ideas and then I was asked to choose one and do the product design for that idea.
FINAL ONSITE ROUND
Software Engineer Round / White board interview
1. What is object Oriented programming?
2. What is an interface?
3. What is a case and how do they work? (Beyond the Google Chrome Cache)
4. What happens when you enter a url and hit enter? (Including server side)
5. Write the algorithm for a mathematical problem
6. Write the SQL code for solving a problem that was given
5 PM rounds
7. You are the PM of Facebook's New feed. How will you select things that are to be shown to any user? (Lots of follow up questions)
8. Let's say Google is able to develop self-driving cars. What are some of the businesses you could start with that technology?
9. You work in Google's e-commerce business. The team is planning to enter into the hotel vending machine business. How will you design the product? (Used the CIRCLES framework to build the product design)
10. You are the PM of an enterprise analytics product. Your team just launched a product at end of Q4 and everyone is very exhausted from all the work that went into launching the product. Soon after the launch, the sales lead makes a request for a big feature based on customer feedback. The operations support person also circles back with a request to fix a bug. Given that you only have 2 weeks before your team goes on leave for the new year, what will you priority between the two: build new feature or fix bug? Engineering team just reported that both the actions will take 2 weeks.
11. You are the PM for a steaming video service. You come into the office and see that one key metric has dropped by 80%. What will you do?
12. You are the PM for Google Cloud developer series. Which customer will you focus on: Cloud Natives (Companies built entirely on cloud - start-ups / individuals etc.) or Legacy Enterprise (companies interested in moving to cloud)
13. Google wants to build a robot lawnmower. How will you do it?
14. Which Google product you do not like? Why? How will you improve it? Let's say you are the PM for that product. What will be your three roadmap like?
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.
resume screening, a recruiter call, and technical or role-specific interviews. Candidates complete coding, system design, or behavioral rounds. Onsite or virtual panels assess problem-solving, communication, and leadership. Feedback goes to a hiring committee, followed by team matching and final offer discussions.
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