Product Manager applicants have rated the interview process at Google with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 52% positive. To compare, the company-average is 61.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Product Manager roles take an average of 38 days to get hired, when considering 643 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Google overall takes an average of 38 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Google as a Product Manager according to 643 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 39%
One on one interview: 24%
Skills test: 10%
Presentation: 6%
Group panel interview: 5%
Background check: 5%
Personality test: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Other: 2%
Drug test: 1%
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google in Oct 2019
Interview
Applied online, recruiter emailed about similar position, passed phone screen, did not pass first round 45 minute phone interview. Interviewer had wrong resume on call, gave positive feedback during call, likely gave negative feedback to hiring team. Recruiter viewed my LinkedIn profile 3 days after phone interview. I emailed the following day and received rejection email in response. No feedback provided per company policy.
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
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.
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.