I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Nov 2014
Interview
After employee recommendation, received email from a recruiter with Google's Product Management staffing group - which was followed up by an email from a Recruiting Coordinator - the first of whom gave a description of the role, the 2nd a description of the interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
For google maps, how would we verify all the 'hours of operation' for the business listings ?
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.
