I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google in Feb 2014
Interview
i gave my resume to a google employee in our school job fair, 1 month later i've got an email from google and they said they want to set an appointment with me at specific time. I've requested to postpone my interview so that i could prepare myself and they accepted... so, in the day of interview i've received a phone call from google, he was really nice and friendly, my first question was " if i give you a large document including text and numbers, n i ask you to retrieve just phone numbers, how will you do that? with which library of tool?"...and my second question was about santa-secret game, "if you want to make a list of students in the class who everyone give exactly 1 gift and everyone can receive exactly one gift, how you would do that?"...i wasn't sure about the first question that moment and i have no idea why he asked me such a question, and the answer of second one was using hash table.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA)
Interview
Contacted via Recruiter. Asked if i prefer SDET / Test Engineer. I chose Test Engineer as I had more of a QA background. This was followed by a phone interview at a date I selected. I chose a date 2 weeks after the day recruiter called me for phone interview.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Write test cases for widgets which pop out when you do Google Search. For e.g, tan x, convert 60kgs to pounds etc. You don't have to necessarily go into details of individual widget testing but more general scenarios testing this functionality of invoking widgets via the search toolbar
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Google
Interview
Recruiter was disorganized and very condescending. Pretty annoying to deal with.
Interviewers were mostly very professional and friendly. Interesting problems to solve. A few of the interviewers never looked up from their laptops and spoke in a weird monotone. I guess Google doesn't hire people based on social skills.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Various theoretical mathematical questions that have little to do with test engineering or test automation.