Project Manager applicants have rated the interview process at Google with 2.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 66.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Project Manager roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 6 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Google overall takes an average of 39 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Google as a Project Manager according to 6 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 50%
One on one interview: 50%
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I applied online. I interviewed at Google in Nov 2016
Interview
Consisted of multiple rounds - testing Analytical skills, Design aptitude and coding skills. The interviewers focussed on assessing your PM aptitude by getting to know how you think about things innovatively
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?
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Google in Feb 2018
Interview
A recruiter reached out a few days after I applied online, and a phone screen with a PM was scheduled. I am an experienced candidate (5 years of work experience, no MBA) but the person who interviewed me for the phone screen was an APM (associate PM) who recently graduated from business school. From the start, he had this "I'm better than you" attitude, and did not take my industry experience seriously. I think it would be better if Google matched candidates with interviewers of similar background. You'd avoid this situation where this MBA guy was trying to "flex" on me the whole time and make me feel inferior.
He asked me two questions. First was a product design question, which I nailed. He even said at the end that this was good. The second question was a brain teaser. I didn't get it right away, but caught myself going down the wrong track and then gave the correct answer. Then he decided to extend the problem space to infinite size and asked me to come up with a generic solution to the brain teaser. This is where I was stuck and wasn't able to come up with the optimal solution. Although at the end, he said I did well in solving the original brain teaser, but didn't comment on the extended version.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a new feature for Twitter that improves the new user experience.