I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Google
Interview
Confusing, disappointing, and mostly a waste of time. I remember thinking "I wonder if this is how a cow feels getting pushed through a slaughterhouse." The job description was vague enough to get me to apply, along with the encouragement of the recruiter, but clearly there was a significant mismatch between the actual position versus my background. This was not apparent until I started the phone interviews. The phone interview was awkward and the person interviewing was rude and made it apparent I was wasting his time. Wish I had known what I was getting myself into.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you were tasked with creating a new product relevant to Google's existing product line that targeted at people using public transit, what would you do?
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.
