I applied through an employee referral. The process took 8 weeks. I interviewed at Google
Interview
Applied online + Internal referral lead to recruiter contact. 4 Rounds of Interviews in total (Phone screening, two Google Hangout, one in person => decision to move forward to be reviewed by the hiring committee =>HIRED!
Phone Screening:
1) If you have 5000 emails in your inbox and 10 team members, you are the team leader how will you distribute them?
2) If you have two phone calls, in what order will you answer them?
3) Why do you want to work for Google and not a bank (I am a finance major)
4) What is your understanding of the position
5) Tell me about Adword
6) With your skill set, you could have applied to a similar position in your field, why did you choose Google
1st Hangout:
1. Tell me about Adword, and Adsense
2. Was there ever a time when your supervisor had given you incomplete or inaccurate instructions? What did you do to resolve that?
3. Was there ever a time when you experience conflicts between you and your teammate? How did you resolve that?
4. Predict the sales revenue of a certain Google product in this market (The country that you are applying to)
6. What is the hardest thing that you have to learn? Explain that to me
2nd Hangout:
1. Describe Adword to me in two sentences?
2. How will you acquire business from someone who is already ranked first in the organic search?
3. Two keywords flower shop and wedding planner, which one has a higher cost per click in this market
4. How did you hear about this position?
5. Tell me about the Internet landscape in (the country you are applying too)
In Person:
1. If you are to start a company in a city that you are living in, what would it be, how will you develop the product, market it and distribute it?
2. If you are the head of Google (the country you are applying to), and you want to double the revenue of Google, what will you do?
3. If a customer sees that his ROI on Facebook ads is higher than that of Google Adword and considering switching all of his investment over to Facebook, what would you say to him?
4. How did you convince an authority to listen to you?
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you are to start a company in a city that you are living in, what would it be, how will you develop the product, market it and distribute it?
first in person interview after online . First job interview . Interviewer was very kind, and encouraging. It covered both soft skills for communications, and technical questions related to the job requirement
Good and total 5 rounds there. Jam, technical interview, HR round and some more are there. It was good. Nice experience. It was a walk-in drive. More than 300 members attended
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Google (Paris)
Interview
2 phone screens (1 with recruitment and 1 with team member) and 2 on-site interviews ( with 2 managers). Roughly 30mins/interview.Everyone was very friendly, even though the questions were not easy. Lots of questions about experience, no question such as "what are your 3 qualities and weaknesses". Very interested in what I was doing outside of work.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Can you tell me about a time when you faced a challenge at work and how you approached it.