I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Oct 2018
Interview
The overall interview process was long. From recruiter point of contact to the initial phone screen then two phone interviews the entire process took five weeks. It also took a while to prepare since the interviews were really testing out your analytical, problem solving ability on the fly.
So remember have enough sleep before the day of interview, don't be like me staying up late to prepare for it, really crams your brain thinking speed. Another tip I would give is to practice listening to foreign accents, it happened to my second interview, with the interviewer speaking heavy accent over unstable Google Hangouts internet phone call I had to ask for clarification on all of his questions and I think this really harmed my ability in thinking and responding clearly.
After a week of the second phone interview I was contacted by recruiter saying they would not be moving forward with me to the next round but encourage me to reapply. I asked for specific details but was told its classified information.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
Imagine a piece of equipment that can detect information from human body, what kind of application would you build based on it? What type of information would you gather?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Google (London, England) in Sep 2018
Interview
Lengthy, but great process. Good candidate experience with regular check ins. Useful interview preparation giving you every opportunity to succeed. Slick process with timely updates. Difficult to keep other opportunities with shorter processes in sync.
20% of time it was as described in youtube for pm interviews. Once they were happy with your pm skills, for the remaining 80% interviewers had their favorite domain questions (ML, operating systems, or whatever else) and it mattered none whether your background or resume even mentioned those areas, or whether the group you're applying to had anything to do with them. If you didn't have the specific answer they were looking for, you didn't pass. Kind of a useless day...