I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google in Aug 2018
Interview
Phone screen with a recruiter followed by an interview with a product manager. You will run across the same questions you read in the book "Crack the PM Code", or "Decode and Conquer", however, google is interested in breaking your answers so you can keep coming back with more. You will eventually reach a dead end. If you are lucky, and can come up with huge and creative answers on the fly, then you will do well.
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.