I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Google (New York, NY) in Feb 2017
Interview
I applied online and asked my friend to give me a refer during the application period. I was contacted by a recruiter about a week later and finished a questionnaire of which team I'm interested and some of my background. Then as every intern did, I was put into the candidate pool. You'll be there for up to 6 weeks. If there is a host like to move forward with you, you will get an interview. If not, you fail.
The experience of recruiting was so nice, since the recruiter emailed me saying I wasn't forgotten by Google because I didn't get a response for 3 weeks. Fortunately, I was contacted by her because a host in NYC would like to have an phone interview.
You'll get the first name of the host and a sentence about the project they want you to involve. The interview took about 45 mins as a pretty normal one. She described the project and asked 2 behavior questions. Then I spent about 20 mins for a portfolio review. Last but not least, questions for interviewers.
After about a week, I was told that she'd like to move forward and got the offer.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
How could you describe interaction design to someone don't know interaction design?
I had 3 rounds total. 1st round was with HR, with the remaining rounds being with the Head of Product and the tech teams. The last round was the hardest, as I had to do a portfolio review
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Google (Bengaluru)
Interview
3 rounds of tech discussion which I cleared with a positive feedback but suddenly recruiter disappeared and when I reached out for further rounds she mentioned that they have got a internal candidate for this position. Never thought Google will be such an unprofessional organisation.
I didn't make it to the interview part of the process. I highly recommend knowing someone or going through an actual recruiter if you'd like a job at Google. Cold applying online is harder to to secure a job.
Google interviews FAQs
User Experience Design applicants have rated the interview process at Google with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 53% positive. To compare, the company-average is 61.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for User Experience Design roles take an average of 44 days to get hired, when considering 32 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 User Experience Design according to 32 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
One on one interview: 20%
Presentation: 16%
Skills test: 15%
Group panel interview: 8%
Other: 3%
Background check: 3%
Personality test: 2%
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