I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Google (New York, NY) in Aug 2012
Interview
A recruiter contact me through LinkedIn and set up an initial phone call
Then a follow-up HR representative contact me by email and scheduled a phone interview with a current Project Manager.
The interview went fine, but I did not continue to the next step.
No feedback what so ever, even when I asked HR and an internal contact I know.
However, Google was not ashamed to send me an email a few days later asking for my feedback... Of course I declined based on reciprocity...
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Nothing was unexpected.
Choose a Google product and talk about it, what do you like about it, what would you improve...
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.
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.
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.