I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Plano, TX) in Mar 2015
Interview
My interview was very professional,and the Interviewer was the Hiring Manager Him self.
He was very Gentle ,Understanding,and giving me Enough time to Express my vision in answering Qusns.
In fact , I was in this position before, and Gain new experience from this interview,and will utilize it in my Career life where needed.The interview was Technical & direct to the answer ,No Hide or tricks there, I felt the interest of hiring from Google side as I much I'm too.I could answer question where ever i have skills & experience.and I'd apologized for the question where i did not have experience, I was knowing how the Negotiation Techniques for the procurement part he was looking for,and informed him.But i was not the person who used to do that within my teams in previous Positions/Past Jobs.He was happy that i was very transparent "I wanted to be my self ,Exactly as my skills are!!".
I strongly believe, If God wanted me to get Hired will get it,and Skills/Experience/Qualifications/Connections are factors of Success to get Hired.
After the Interview,I felt I should thank Google for giving me chance of Expressing myself.
I'm thankful to the Hiring Manager/Interviewer & to the Tech. Recruiter for their professional attitude seen clearly Before/during and after the interview too.
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The questions were clear & direct to the answers, might took time from me during the interview it self to reply directly to the point the Hiring Manger needed,But it is very hard to Summarize Decade/s of your Career experience in few Lines presented in Resume, Or Minutes during the Interview.
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.
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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?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Google
Interview
I just had my first phone screen and don't know the result yet. Basically standard PMP answers are expected. Questions I was asked are project stages, project constraints (hinted by golden triangle), project closure and critical path. I frankly stated I am not familiar with PMP terms and will answer according to my work experience. After two questions I was told to give short answers so I am not optimistic to my result when PMP standard answers are expected. I learned from this forum so hopefully my sharing will help some who are interested in Google TPM job.
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If you're familiar with PMP, it is an easy interview.