I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Google in Aug 2010
Interview
The onsite interview began with a technical interview with a SDE, then met a bunch of APMs and PMs back to back. Asked questions ranging from "what is your favorite product, why, and how would you improve it" to "would you buy netflix" to questions about the number of Gmail users, etc.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google (San Francisco, CA) in Nov 2008
Interview
Full on-site interview process with roughly 10 people, written essay, phone interview, culminating in a group scavenger hunt in San Francisco. Process was very thorough, but not intimidating; there are plenty of great Googlers involved with the process. Only criticism would be that it was a long, somewhat drawn out affair.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There were no trick questions and I don't recall any particularly difficult questions. Given the number of interviews and people involved in the process, you can't really prepare.
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Google in Apr 2010
Interview
I applied for the job but didn't receive any offer for interview until months later. I was told i would be contacted by a product manager by telephone and the interview would last around an hour. Then it would take up to 2 weeks before a decision would be made to have a second telephone interview or else finish the process altogether. I found the HR people to be really friendly and easy to communicate with. The interviewer was a young guy and was polite but very formal.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Google want to change youtube from having one image for videos to having several to better indicate what the video is about(5 images was used). How would you achieve this
Microsoft have just realsed Bing, Eric Schmidt wants you to give him analysis on which search engine gives the most accurate results in 1 hour. How would you be able to rate accuracy results on returned queries from Google search and Bing.