I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Nov 2019
Interview
The process in 2019
HR Screen > Phone Screen with a PM > On-site (5 interviews).
On-Site, included lunch with a Googler. Claimed to be non-evaluative. I was disappointed to have 2/3 of my on-sites on Google meet, that threw me off guard.
What questions to expect?
The on-site interview process included questions from product design, product strategy, product pricing and a technical interview.
It's hard to level set for this interview. Speaking to others, the level of difficulty can be broad, and the type of questions can vary.
For example, for a technical interview, I was asked a DFS algorithm question ( Even though I studied CS, I am not an engineer and I was applying for a PM role). Whereas an acquaintance was asked a 'system design' question.
Although, I do think you can expect fewer behavioural questions and more case/technical questions.
They don't do brain teasers. I think they published findings that those questions don't relate to job performance.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical: A question that had you build/use Depth-First -Search (DFS) in a directed acyclic graph (DAG). Of course, the question wasn't presented as such.
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.