I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Google (New York, NY) in Dec 2018
Interview
A recruiter reached out to me and we scheduled a phone call. She passed my information to several teams hiring Program Managers and got back to me with an opportunity of interview with a team member in a week. The lady who interviewed me is very respectful. I was called next week about the results of not moving forward. The whole process was well planned, on-time and informative. Hope I could do better if I could be interviewed again in the future.
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Question 1
The challenges you had while implementing your project.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Google (San Francisco, CA) in Nov 2018
Interview
Couple phone interviews and quick response to whether they will proceed further. Interviewer not very engaging and job description giving was not the one they interviewed me for.
I applied online. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Google (Sunnyvale, CA) in Aug 2018
Interview
Applied for the technical program manager, university grad role initially. Recruiter reached out and had a quick conversation about the role, my experience (background was a non-CS engineering major) and potential fit. Received email next day that they would schedule me for a phone interview for a non-technical program manager position.
Phone interview was 45 min, a few behavioral questions and then a hypothetical question which involved brainstorming ways to implement a program for release of a specific software. The latter part took about half the interview. As I'm sure others have mentioned, they're mostly looking for inquisitive problem solving and thinking outside the box.
About 2 weeks later, I got invited onsite. Four 45 minute interviews and an informal lunch, all with program managers. A lot of the questions were the same (probably just taken from a generic pool of questions) and focused on general program management and working with teams. Last interviewer asked some curveball questions about cloud computing that I wasn't too familiar with. Everyone was mostly nice and attentive.
By this time in the interview cycle, my experience was a lot different than the tortuous, drawn out descriptions of the interview process that I had read on Glassdoor. However, after the onsite is when the stressful waiting began. In my case, Google opted to do team match before the hiring committee, and so I spent about 1.5 months waiting for a team. Eventually, I went with another offer that had an expiring deadline after realizing that there would not be a team secured for me in time.