I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Google in Apr 2010
Interview
I got called from a recruiter who was working an ex-colleague. It seems that they rely a lot on their employee referrals. There was 2 rounds of phone screens by the recruiter, who asked some basic technical questions. I was actually surprised by how well knowledgeable the recruiter is.
Then I was arranged for a full day on site interview with 6 engineers. All reasonable interview questions. Some of them asked me about my experience listed on the resume while others gave standard coding tests. Overall it was a good experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
write a program to count the number of 1 digits in a number's binary representation.
The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Google in Jan 2008
Interview
It's a long and challenging interview process. A few brain-teasers just to get warmed up, not sure whether those count or not. A lot of questions are from the real-life projects, asking you to solve it on the spot. Interviewers are quite smart. The best part is to take you to the free lunch at the Google cafe, you'll like it immediately.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Suppose the Europe operations suddenly lose 20% in terms of revenue, how could you find out what's going on, and what do you want to do to handle the situation?
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Google in Jan 2008
Interview
everything pretty standard. you can find a lot of similar interview posts online. starting with a 30 mins phone call, then HR follow-ups. And then get scheduled for on-site. During on-site, a panel of 5 people, taking about half a day with lunch.