yes google does index your own subdomains.
Look at this example nytimes they have multiple blogs.
What I not understand is, they have some of their blogs as subdirectory category and some of them as subdomain, how this make sense? Type in nytime blogs in google.
Then multiple sites are coming up (google says that they only showing max. 2 domains of your site eh?) like;
open nytimes com (it is a subdomain check it)
lens.blogs.nytimes com, but this url structure is=
https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/
Then check it with receipes nytimes= google is listing multiple site pack at the top (what is the name of this I have forgotten?) but the recipes site url structure is subdomain.
I must ask you guys, this makes no sense for me, sometimes so, then sometimes make a subdomain....forward and back, back and forward....
I not understand this tactic.
Why not use an unit url structure ? Danlok example, he uses category pages and multiple domains.
I try to understand the tactic of nytimes and yes, check their source code the ynot use wordpress as cms.