I applied online. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at Google (Bengaluru) in Feb 2012
Interview
It was good but hard. They asked me a lot of questions and used words like Googly. I liked most of the interviewers but some rather ideological in their perspective. I'd recommend the experience to a friend.
Very self-driven, first of multiple rounds, where I had to take the initiative to arrive at the problem, constraints, approach, solutions, tradeoffs and reasoning behind it in a matter of 30 minutes.
You would have to do a hiring assessment first, then a recruiter screening follows. First round interview with the hiring manager. Majorly product sense and product improvement. The questions were not direct though.
Overall a lot of steps to the interview process. Talked to different people and had opportunities to ask questions. Many different stages which made it a lengthy process overall. Wasn't too bad.
