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Updated Jan 18, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Associate Product Manager at Google
Posted Jan 18, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2011 (took 5 weeks)
It was Interesting. They seemed to ask a lot of questions designed for the "regular" employees. As a marketing major, I'm not "normal" by Google standards. I'm not a computer nerd, and the whole thing was different than anything that I 've experienced. It was just weird. I'm not sure what happened
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Presentation.
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Associate Product Manager at Google
Posted Dec 12, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 in Mountain View, CA (took 2 weeks)
Had two phone interviews with two APMS at the time. Asked pretty standard questions about Google products, and then was asked some probability / theoretical questions. Around two of these technical questions, some even involving product design. The first APM seemed much more enthused to interview me than the second.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Associate Product Manager at Google
Posted Oct 20, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2011 (took 5 days)
I applied for this position through the Google Jobs page in November end and got an email from the HR on 8th of Jan this year and she wanted to setup a basic interview call with to introduce me to the company, know a little bit more about me.
She was calling from London and this position was in Switzerland.
She asked me to introduce me, tell her what was on the resume and she in turn told me about the position.
Then she asked me for to wait for an email informing whether there will be a next round or not.
I googled the position, read the questions that were posted on various blogs and realized that they werent looking for exact ans to the questions, they were probably analyzing the approach to problem solving.
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This is for the customers in US only.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Associate Product Manager at Google
Posted Aug 22, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 (took 2+ months)
Two or three phone screens with recruiters. A 30 minute interview with another APM. Then flew out to HQ, from VA, for the on-site interviews. 3 hour long interviews before lunch, lunch interview and 3 varied length interviews after lunch. Was on the campus about 6 hours total. One interview was purely technical, the others were focused on strategy and creative thinking/problem solving.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Associate Product Manager at Google
Posted Aug 8, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 in Dublin, County Dublin (Ireland) (took 2 days)
Applied online and within a few days was contacted to have a phone interview. The phone interview lasted 45 minutes - and consisted of questions as: 1) What's your favorite Google Product, how would you improve it. 2) How would you launch YouTube in Turkey, etc.
Then went in for 3 back to back 45 minutes interviews. It was challenging but my interviewers were nice and I enjoyed the conversations. I found that they often repeated questions but were most interested in ways in my ideas for reinventing products and being innovative. In the end, I did not get the job because I didn't have enough experience in marketing to deliver communications across the EMEA (my background is search marketing on the agency side). I would definitely consider applying again.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Associate Product Manager at Google
Posted Mar 25, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2010 (took 4+ weeks)
1st round: phone screening that took almost 1 hr... i was asked some brain-teaser question that's tech-related.
2nd round: phone screening that took like 35 min... i was asked some econ-related stuff that i couldn't really answer well but passed
3rd round: withdrew to accept other offer
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Associate Product Manager at Google
Posted Jan 17, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2010 (took 1 week)
A couple phone interviews, then flew out for whole day. Recruiters were very nice and seemed interested in what I had to say. The guy I talked to explained what his role was on a day to day basis and told me what I could expect to do.
First phone interview started with technical questions.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Skills Test.
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Associate Product Manager at Google
Posted Dec 10, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2010 in Zurich (Switzerland) (took 2 weeks)
At the phone interview, it was 40mins long. I was asked mostly questions about estimation problems -- I think they were trying to test my general intelligence and understanding of the landscape. For example, "How much revenue do you think Admob makes?" and "How many small businesses are there in Europe?". It's important to know your facts -- I think I screwed up the second question because I didn't know what the population of Europe was! Anyway, I got the offer perhaps because I was quite specific and detailed on my flow of logical thinking.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Associate Product Manager at Google
Posted Oct 30, 2010
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2010 (took 2 weeks)
got a interview from a product manager. asked about my knowledge of google products. then follow up with my answer. feel quite flexible, random. must show passion for google. no coding questions, but did ask about algorithm design,like(the product you mentioned, how will you improve it?)
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Associate Product Manager at Google
Posted Oct 6, 2010 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2010 (took 3+ weeks)
The onsite interview began with a technical interview with a SDE, then met a bunch of APMs and PMs back to back. Asked questions ranging from "what is your favorite product, why, and how would you improve it" to "would you buy netflix" to questions about the number of Gmail users, etc.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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