I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google in Feb 2015
Interview
Initial round is the recruiter (over the phone: 30min) yet still very detailed surrounding project vs program management. Next round is a Program Manager (over the phone(45-60min) that the position reports into. He was also very detail oriented in regards specific project management areas, terms, behaviarol, situational, etc. Fairly standard but does much more of a deep dive and problems that arise with the answer you just gave. Next round was with a software engineer (on the phone 45-60min) who tests your coding knowledge while sharing a google doc where they can see you writing your code. From what he told me, everybody has to basically know code whether you use it or not because Google is a "coding culture". This makes sense and it is also used as a guage for problem solving.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Recruiter: Program vs Project management, constraints of project management, path of project management, situational questions regarding running a project.
Program Manager: How would you deploy a solution for cloud computing to build in redundancy for the compute cluster (explain from beginning to end(inception to run and maintain))? What is critical path and explain in a situation. No matter how much detail I explained, the interviewer always asked for additional details in an almost argumentative nature.
Software Engineer: Very quick and to the point, no questions on history or what you have done, just problem sets. How would you code a reverse string (no built-in functions can be used) so code function from scratch. How would you multiply or add base 3 numbers?
Good interviewers that ask a lot of questions to gauge your domain knowledge. Do not feel daunted because they just need to know your thought process. Speak more and out loud. Think out loud.
Two process interview. was not clear. first interview with recruiter which thought it will go well. second with Hiring manager which was not clear what was asked or needed. Not sure why went through this.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a technical topic to me like I am C-executive
I applied online. I interviewed at Google (Amsterdam) in May 2026
Interview
had first interview with recruiter - she was nice. thought that I was the right person for the job. Second interview with manager from the US. was less good. felt like the main reason for the interview was to hire a similar person to the person who was interviewing. we talked at night (for me) and was 30 min over the interview allocated time, but the morning after I got a rejection call.
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