I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Aug 2021
Interview
Started with a recruiter phone screen that was entirely behavioral followed by followed by 1 video round with a senior PM and then a virtual onsite with 5 interviews covering product strategy, product design, estimation, technical and behavioral/culture fit. If you have taken the Product Alliance Google PM Interview course, the interview is really straight forward.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
-How do you see the "creator economy" evolving over the next ten years? If Google wanted to make a new major product investment within this space, what would you recommend we build?
-Market size the remittance payments market in the US.
-Tell me about a time you had to work with a difficult teammate.
Most of the weird questions I got were listed in the Product Alliance question sheet so I had prepared for them beforehand.
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.
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.
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.