I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google in Sep 2009
Interview
I applied on their website and they found a position relevant to my education and courses. They made me schedule a phone interview. The interview was for about 45 minutes and was heavy on the technical side. I managed to answer 75% of the questions but they declined my candidacy after the phone round. It took them 4 weeks to get back to me with the results.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you were given the land prices in the Bay Area, what would you pick, the mean or the median? Why?
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Google (Seattle, WA) in Sep 2008
Interview
I got a call to schedule a initial phone interview. It was scheduled in a week, but the questions they asked me was somewhat unanswerable under my knowledge. So I failed.
I want them to go little easy on the interview and try to get to know the candidate a bit more than just asking the whole bunch of difficult questions. I don't like that!!!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a time-ordered log of user visits to web pages find the most common 3-page sequence
The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Jan 2007
Interview
Google contacted me, they had my resume from an old interview many years ago.
After a few email exchanges about available positions, a phone screen was arranged.
During the phone screen they asked technical questions to gauge my skills.
It looks like I did well because after that I was invited for an on-site interview.
If I remember correctly, first I was interviewed by 2-3 people (like a panel interview)
and one of them was dialing in from a different location. They asked mostly general and
architecture questions. After that I had two one on one interviews. The first one was with
a software engineer who was very polite and asked me about general programming stuff.
The second one was with a network / sysadmin but he was rather rude, and flatly refused
to answer any of my questions during the course of the interview. It was like, I had to answer
questions only, and not ask anything. I felt very uncomfortable and disappointed.