I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Oct 2018
Interview
The overall interview process was long. From recruiter point of contact to the initial phone screen then two phone interviews the entire process took five weeks. It also took a while to prepare since the interviews were really testing out your analytical, problem solving ability on the fly.
So remember have enough sleep before the day of interview, don't be like me staying up late to prepare for it, really crams your brain thinking speed. Another tip I would give is to practice listening to foreign accents, it happened to my second interview, with the interviewer speaking heavy accent over unstable Google Hangouts internet phone call I had to ask for clarification on all of his questions and I think this really harmed my ability in thinking and responding clearly.
After a week of the second phone interview I was contacted by recruiter saying they would not be moving forward with me to the next round but encourage me to reapply. I asked for specific details but was told its classified information.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
Imagine a piece of equipment that can detect information from human body, what kind of application would you build based on it? What type of information would you gather?
The process was straightforward and moved quickly. After applying online, a recruiter reached out within a few days for a brief phone screen. That was followed by two video interviews, one with the hiring manager and one with a panel of team members focused on project planning and stakeholder communication. The whole thing wrapped up in about two weeks, and the team was responsive and clear about next steps throughout.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I walked through a specific project where a key vendor delivery slipped. I explained how I flagged the risk early in our weekly status review, reset expectations with stakeholders, re-sequenced dependent tasks, and brought the timeline back within an acceptable range by negotiating a partial early delivery.
standard 1st round digital interview, they are asking about your experience, background, some behavioural questions and technical questions. and they also share a bit more about the role, culture and expectation
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.