Product Strategy & Operations, Gemini Interview Experience

I was honestly surprised to even get the Google and DeepMind interview, and the process ended up being much lighter and more ambiguous than I expected. After a very standard recruiter screen, I had two short calls: one with the hiring manager that was mostly background, interest in AI, and a light product or growth prompt, and one with a partner on a sister team that mixed behaviorals with a very open-ended "Gemini usage is down" case. I had prepped like crazy for a much tougher consulting-style case and a deeper data exercise, so I left feeling very neutral, not like I crushed it and not like I bombed. One frustrating part was that there was basically no time to ask my own questions, so I learned almost nothing from the interviewers about the real mandate of the role. In the end they told me I was very qualified and they enjoyed the conversations, but I got rejected before moving to the assignment round.

I was honestly surprised to even get the Google and DeepMind interview, and the process ended up being much lighter and more ambiguous than I expected. After a very standard recruiter screen, I had two short calls: one with the hiring manager that was mostly background, interest in AI, and a light product or growth prompt, and one with a partner on a sister team that mixed behaviorals with a very open-ended "Gemini usage is down" case. I had prepped like crazy for a much tougher consulting-style case and a deeper data exercise, so I left feeling very neutral, not like I crushed it and not like I bombed. One frustrating part was that there was basically no time to ask my own questions, so I learned almost nothing from the interviewers about the real mandate of the role. In the end they told me I was very qualified and they enjoyed the conversations, but I got rejected before moving to the assignment round.