The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Jan 2011
Interview
I submitted my resume for a Product Manager position thru a friend who works at Google. It took the recruiter about 2-3 weeks to contact me to set up a phone interview. The phone interview consisted of questions dealing with how I felt about certain products (technical/non-technical) and then how I would market certain products. The interview was very nice and helped me along when I got stuck. After not hearing a word from anyone for two weeks I called to follow up with my HR rep. He left me a message saying that they felt my background was not fit for the job.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Name a non-technical product that you like. Why do you like it and how would you make it better?
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Google in May 2010
Interview
Interviewer was an ex-Microsoftie, with about 2 years of experience both at MS and Google. The interview questions were standard MS and Google style questions. Interviewer didn't ask any thing about work, background, education. Got the rejection an hour later.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How many tries will you need to find out a heavy ball from a set of 9 balls. How can you minimize these tries.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Feb 2011
Interview
Scheduled an interview on the phone fairly easily with recruiters, via email. Fairly simple interview, no crazy math/logic question like people get for software engineers positions but definitely questions about product management in general. The person was fairly nice on the phone, helpful, but didn't react much to what I was saying.