I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Google in May 2024
Interview
First round: Recruiter phone call
second round: product sense phone
screening
Third round: 5 virtual onsite interviews.
After you pass all above, you would be given team match calls with hiring managers.
Takes 3 months
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.
You would have to do a hiring assessment first, then a recruiter screening follows. First round interview with the hiring manager. Majorly product sense and product improvement. The questions were not direct though.
Overall a lot of steps to the interview process. Talked to different people and had opportunities to ask questions. Many different stages which made it a lengthy process overall. Wasn't too bad.