I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Google (San Francisco, CA) in Sep 2018
Interview
Recruiter reaches out to schedule interview --> design/strat question with PM. Didn't make it past that but the rest of the process is pretty transparent because of PM prep sites/courses.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
First round was with a PM: How would you drastically boost smart home sales over 5 years?
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.