I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Jul 2015
Interview
I was referred for the PM position by a Google employee. The process was quick for how large Google is. Within a week I received an email asking for my availability to setup an interview with one of their product managers. The coordinating process was a breeze. There was an initial phone screen which provided an overview of the PM role and gave me a chance to ask questions, followed by a 45 minute phone interview with a Google Product Manager one week later. Most of the interview guides on Glassdoor were very helpful. I was turned down because of my lack of technical experience. Google prides themselves on having extremely technical PMs, so study up. If you don't have a CS degree, you should have a lot of real world programming experience.
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.