I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Jan 2018
Interview
The process strives to be professional, but is lacking in some basic common sense and respect. Google has a lot of guidelines in place, but basically your experience will come down to random luck - who is assigned to interview you? More than one of my interviewers showed up 30+ minutes late and I was asked questions that have no relevance to being an effective product manager - such as "draw an app interface". When I inquired as to "what type of app?" "what was motivating the app" "who are the customers?" I was told to just "make it up". Ultimately I was dinged for "not being creative enough" so perhaps I should have approached this task with more enthusiasm ;) .
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One of my more interesting questions - design a wifi router that has voice recognition capabilities?
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.
it was very long and had multiple stages. it never required any in person activity or any relocation to an office or company building. I did not take the job in the end but i recommend it