I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2014
Interview
Contacted by recruiter in Jan and started to schedule my phone interview.
1st one cancelled on me like 30 mins before the call, 2nd one even didn't bother to call me - it turns out to be her last day at Google (and i was told by recruiter the 2 days after that fact...)
3rd one - late to the call like 8 mins - which made me almost think that I wouldn't get the phone interview call again.
It was the most awkward phone interview process I'd even experienced. This wasted 2+ weeks.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- What's your most visited websites, what's good/bad, how to improve.
- What's a good design you've seen, how to 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.