Phone screen following a design challange. After that 4 interview, 3 design and 1 tech. The tech was simple, 2 of the design interviews were about estimation and another one about designing a chess game. Overall the interviewers were ok, with one single exception.
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Question 1
Design a chess game.
Your favourite product and why?
The first round is a work style assessment, second round is an initial product sense round. Great support throughout the process. Constant support for rescheduling and gives you great material to prepare
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A product sense question , cant go into detail, but the interview time limit was 45 mins
Quite simple and conversational tone
The interview was simple and overall based on my product thinking and production nothing out of the box okay? I'd stop now I am going to be precise and accurate and the most important thing is that the real thing
Application
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Google (San Francisco, CA) in Jan 2025
Interview
slow one interview and just asked like product strategy questions what you’d typically expect just like prep as you would a typically product interview but remember to focus on collaboration
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
what’s your favorite product and what would you improve about it