I applied in-person. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA)
Interview
Recruiter from google contacted me via LinkedIn. After first screening round she organized an interview with hiring manager. That interview call was for 45 minutes. Interview process was one of the best but Google needs to find a better person who can interview well. If google is expecting interviewee should be in the quite place so interviewee is expecting the same from the interviewer. That google employee was not professional at all, he brings his son in the process. Constant disturbance was going on and he was into his son questions. Mr. Google employee, you shouldn’t have to come with your personal problem in the interview, you are playing with someone’s dream. I am very disappointed with that person. How company like google does this?
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.