Project Manager applicants have rated the interview process at Google with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 71% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Google
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I applied through a friend who is at Google. I heard back to setup a phone interview a week later. I set my phone interview for a week and a half after that. After my interview was over, I did not have a good feeling about the phone interview. I don't want to go into details, but let's just say I could tell the interviewer didn't seem interested in seeing me succeed. His first question was very ambiguous - nothing like I had read about here or heard about - and ended up being an estimation question. And he tended to ramble which didn't help me get to the point of the question. After every answer I gave, he pretty much implied I was wrong and made me use his assumptions to continue to answer the next part of the question. He didn't give me a chance to justify my responses (as I'm told they are supposed to do), and cut me off exactly at 45 minutes. I feel like it's luck of the draw with the initial interview. You have one chance to impress one person. While my experience wasn't necessarily positive, I don't fault the company as a whole and I'd encourage others to apply to this position.
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One estimation question that seemed to initially a market analysis question. i.e. Based on the way the question was asked, I thought it was "what would Google need to do to expand it's business in x?" But when I started answering that question, it turns out it was actually an "estimate the value of this particular service that Google offers" question.
Contacted me by email to schedule a phone interview. The interview on the phone lasted roughly 45 minutes and consisted of typical questions about interview, and then some 'estimation' problems.
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The CEO of Apple and you are in a room and all you have is a white board. He wants to know roughly what the company's annual revenue in IOS sales is globally.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Google (New York, NY) in Aug 2012
Interview
A recruiter contact me through LinkedIn and set up an initial phone call
Then a follow-up HR representative contact me by email and scheduled a phone interview with a current Project Manager.
The interview went fine, but I did not continue to the next step.
No feedback what so ever, even when I asked HR and an internal contact I know.
However, Google was not ashamed to send me an email a few days later asking for my feedback... Of course I declined based on reciprocity...
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Nothing was unexpected.
Choose a Google product and talk about it, what do you like about it, what would you improve...