I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Google (Londen, Engeland) in Mar 2010
Interview
The process took roughly 4 months end to end. A friend recommended me internally for a role which I got through to an interview. The first round was a phone interview with some basic questions why do you want to work here etc. After this had a second phone interview and was invited to a 4 hour on site interview day. When I got to the Google office I was told that the role had been changed to something completely different and that the hiring manager did this because he felt too many people applied for the role I applied for. After a discussion with him he made it clear that it was not a test and that the role had been changed to something I couldn't do and therefore probably wouldn't get the job. He then gave me the option to continue with the interviews but it would only be to get to know the company a bit better...
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How many gigabytes would you need to run Google mail. Was also asked about the products and how I would improve them.
The process was straightforward and moved quickly. After applying online, a recruiter reached out within a few days for a brief phone screen. That was followed by two video interviews, one with the hiring manager and one with a panel of team members focused on project planning and stakeholder communication. The whole thing wrapped up in about two weeks, and the team was responsive and clear about next steps throughout.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I walked through a specific project where a key vendor delivery slipped. I explained how I flagged the risk early in our weekly status review, reset expectations with stakeholders, re-sequenced dependent tasks, and brought the timeline back within an acceptable range by negotiating a partial early delivery.
standard 1st round digital interview, they are asking about your experience, background, some behavioural questions and technical questions. and they also share a bit more about the role, culture and expectation
Very self-driven, first of multiple rounds, where I had to take the initiative to arrive at the problem, constraints, approach, solutions, tradeoffs and reasoning behind it in a matter of 30 minutes.