I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Dec 2013
Interview
Applied through their website, got a call back 2-3 weeks later and was scheduled for an initial 30 minutes phone screen. The first phone call was simply to let me know about the role and what it entailed and if I had any questions. She explained the interview process.
Second interview was a 45-60 minute google hangout interview with a senior technical account manager. The questions asked were pretty technical and were mostly all related to web technologies and how to display ads on a page.
Questions I got:
1. Tell me about a time where you had to say No to a client.
2. Imagine you work at a small startup, and you have a small website. Your lawyer comes in and asks you to take down a webpage because there is a bad image that was uploaded on your page and an advertiser is threatening to sue you. You must act immediately. How can you proceed to remove the ad/shutdown the web page.
3. Imagine you are a startup with a similar service to gmail and you are running on a single server. Your service is becoming very popular and things are starting to be very slow for the users. how can you improve your performance with the limited budget you have as a startup.
4. You work at Noogle, a startup just like google that focuses on selling advertisement space for publishers and gains revenues through clients clicking the ads and advertisers paying you per click. Overnight, your revenue declined 50%. What can you do to understand why revenue has declined?
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Chelsea, NY) in Sep 2010
Interview
Google initially responded to my application just prior to September of 2010, and scheduled a phone interview that proved quite pleasant. I next had a phone interview with their Manager of Technical Account Management Services on 9/3/2010, which also proved affable, informative and promising. My third round interview, held in-person at their Chelsea office in New York, occurred on 9/9/2010. This was easily the most difficult interview I have participated in, with brain-teaser questions as well as more content-driven questions about website monetizing and so on. The onsite interview seemed surprisingly disorganized; I met with a different group of people than indicated at first. Everyone at the office seemed intelligent and satisfied, and all of my interviewers were courteous and professional.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You have 78 pencils, 51 files, 152 paintbrushes and 142 felt tip pens. How many writing pads do you need?