I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google in Oct 2014
Interview
Friend submitted my resume. Recruiter got in touch to set up a phone interview after a day. Had the first interview a couple weeks later. Had to ask for an update before I knew they wanted me to go through another phone interview a week after the first one. Had a second phone interview. Waited about 10 days, then reached out for feedback. Recruiter called me right away to let me know we were not moving forward.
Recruiter explained that in their experience, Product Mangers with a lot of business savvy, but without a technology background (which was very clearly not in my resume) don't last very long (more than two years) at Google. Her explanation for thinking I might be a good fit originally was with the hope that I had self-taught some technical/computer science skills. ...This all flies in the face of having asked this question of the first interviewer whose response was, "We don't need engineers for this role. Use what you're good at." The second interviewer was a computer science guy turned product person and arrogantly asked, "How do you expect to work with the top 1% of computer science engineers in the WORLD without any computer science background?" Left a very bad taste in my mouth. The recruiter thought I would be a good fit in other roles at Google and asked me to let her know what else I was interested in. I won't be applying again.
Yet another talented woman filtered out of Google.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Google (Hyderabad)
Interview
First Screening was an HR round. Followed by a Telephonic interview. The recruitment folks were very professional and responsive. They gave me feedback and prep tips throughout the process. The first telephonic interview was with a Product Manager in Mountain View. I got the result the very next day saying the feedback wasn't positive and my candidature will not be processed further.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There were only 3-4 Questions.
1.What I do in my current job
2.Why Google?
3.What are the first steps I as a Product Manager will look into when designing an app for a theme park?
4.What features would I include?
5.What metrics would I track to measure the success of app?
6.How would I design an ATM machine for use at a country's airports?
7.Any other questions I had
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Sep 2014
Interview
Super professional recruiters and interviewers. Interview was done by peer but could tell that I was on speakerphone and being interviewed by a committee. Very interesting questions in that they wanted to know who you are as a person.