I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Google
Interview
Recruiter round, followed by 1 phone screen followed by a virtual onsite with 5 interviews covering all the usual topics (product strategy, product insight / design, analytical, technical and a bit of googleyness etc).
Design a new version of Google Maps to target the next billion users? (was asked the same thing for Gmail in a Prepfully mock so I used a lot of ideas from there)
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.
