I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Google (New York, NY) in Jan 2014
Interview
I was referred for the position from someone inside Google and received an email from a Google recruiter. After 15 minutes of chit chat about my resume and interests, he told me he would email me if I was to have an interview with a product manager. It was obvious to me that I was going to have one by the way he spoke and 2 minutes later I received an email from him asking me for interview times.
A week later I had the phone interview.
The interviewer was very sweet and friendly and she obviously had a lot of experience as she had been at Google for I think 4 years. She asked me about myself, so I gave her my resume pitch. She then asked me if I wanted to talk hardware or software. I said software. She asked me about an internet / software service that I used and liked OTHER THAN GOOGLE OR A GOOGLE PRODUCT. I said Netflix. Questions asked -
What are the things Netflix should measure/analyze on a daily basis?
What is their business model?
How can Netflix change its product without causing an uproar?
How can Netflix change its pricing without causing an uproar?
She then asked me about a piece of hardware that I liked to use and to explain why I liked it.
I talked about my bicycle.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What are the things Netflix should measure/analyze on a daily basis?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google
Interview
The interview process felt very thorough and complete. I was referred by a current employee and was contacted by an internal Google recruiter within days. They walked me through what the process would look like and helped me throughout the way. I was handed off to other 'recruiters' who managed each stage of the process. Eventually I was scheduled for a full-day interview in their offices.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Was asked how I would perform statistical frequency analysis on a random raw data source to get a set of results that are most relevant to humans.