I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Google
Interview
two back to back technical phone interviews after short interaction with the Recruiter via email. 45min each - practically no break. Collaboration and Coding exercies were done via Google Doc. All interviewers were very friendly and it was a relaxed and laid back atmosphere. Interview was done over long distance calls as recruiters were based in the UK which lead to some connection problems.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basic Computer Science Questions
Algorithms & Datastructures
Complexities
Write code to identify if a given String is a Palindrome
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Google in Feb 2013
Interview
I was contacted via phone and had to answer a few questions which I found quite difficult. After the first interview they called me once again to tell me that they are not recruiting me.
It went preety smoothly with some general questions about everything. The global ecomomy, or calculations about things. They have headcount so in order to get hired they should be a project