The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Jan 2011
Interview
I submitted my resume for a Product Manager position thru a friend who works at Google. It took the recruiter about 2-3 weeks to contact me to set up a phone interview. The phone interview consisted of questions dealing with how I felt about certain products (technical/non-technical) and then how I would market certain products. The interview was very nice and helped me along when I got stuck. After not hearing a word from anyone for two weeks I called to follow up with my HR rep. He left me a message saying that they felt my background was not fit for the job.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Name a non-technical product that you like. Why do you like it and how would you make it better?
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.