I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Dec 2018
Interview
Initial phone screening with a recruiter, asking very basic questions about my experience. Then 45 min phone interview with google PM. My recruiter was wonderful, my interview with the PM felt very rushed and not very personable.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Google wants to get into the ride share business - how should they do this? What metrics would you look at? How would you gather sentiment?
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.