I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Google
Interview
I applied through a friend who is at Google. I heard back to setup a phone interview a week later. I set my phone interview for a week and a half after that. After my interview was over, I did not have a good feeling about the phone interview. I don't want to go into details, but let's just say I could tell the interviewer didn't seem interested in seeing me succeed. His first question was very ambiguous - nothing like I had read about here or heard about - and ended up being an estimation question. And he tended to ramble which didn't help me get to the point of the question. After every answer I gave, he pretty much implied I was wrong and made me use his assumptions to continue to answer the next part of the question. He didn't give me a chance to justify my responses (as I'm told they are supposed to do), and cut me off exactly at 45 minutes. I feel like it's luck of the draw with the initial interview. You have one chance to impress one person. While my experience wasn't necessarily positive, I don't fault the company as a whole and I'd encourage others to apply to this position.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One estimation question that seemed to initially a market analysis question. i.e. Based on the way the question was asked, I thought it was "what would Google need to do to expand it's business in x?" But when I started answering that question, it turns out it was actually an "estimate the value of this particular service that Google offers" question.
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.