Product Manager applicants have rated the interview process at Google with 2.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 66.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Product Manager roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 6 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Google overall takes an average of 39 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Google as a Product Manager according to 6 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 50%
One on one interview: 50%
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Google gets as many as 75,000 resumes a week. Obviously, it is highly unlikely that Google HR has enough time and staff to actually look at every resume; after all they are a search company. In me experience, being recommended for a position by a Google employee (a "Googler") is critical to getting a person in HR to look at your resume. After submitting several resumes online, I was recommended by a Googler. I was contacted by Google HR within 24 hours.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Google
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter a couple of days after I created a LinkedIn profile. After speaking to the recruiter, I did a phone interview. I've been told that some people have to do more than one phone interview but after the one phone interview, I was invited to the onsite interview which is pretty much as discussed by others on this site. I feel that most of my interviews went well but I could see where I went wrong in a few of them. I did not get an offer and the feedback was that while everyone liked me, they felt some of my answers were not creative enough. I assume that they must have liked me in some capacity because I have since been contacted regarding other more technical positions where creativity was not as much of a consideration.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The questions were much as everyone noted. I think I failed in not taking "What new features would you add to..." questions far enough. I think the main thing to remember when answering the questions is to not answer for yourself but for the customer. So while you may say, "This bothers me, I would change...", a better answer would be to say "From reading the comments on the app, I see that X bothers a lot of people and I would do Y to fix it."
Was called by HR for a phone screen and discussed basic functions and roles of the position. Was referred by a Googler in the department and expected a call back. After the initial call I didn't hear back again.