The hiring process was as one would expect - simply a case interview with some fairly challenging questions. The interviewer was rather cold and stern, but that could be due to the fact that I didn't do a good job of articulating the answers to my questions. All in all, a difficult but not out of the ordinary interview process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How much bandwidth does YouTube require to achieve 100% uptime. Rationalize your answer.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Sep 2013
Interview
Starts with a phone interview, followed by an on-site half day. Interviewed by a two Product Managers, an Engineer (more technical) and a director of PM. Followed by a Hiring Comittee, another Director and a final Comittee.
The entire process took more than two months.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Nothing unexpected or out of the ordinary you can read in this site and others. Tell me about a Google product, what you would have changed etc. Invent a product and build a business case for that etc.
You see a decline in traffic to a service. What do you do?etc
Why do you want to work for google? etc.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Jan 2010
Interview
They discourage those gotchya questions now. The process takes forever.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
It's all at the whim of whoever you're talking to. There aren't typical questions anymore. Someone may ask you the "how many telephone poles in texas" sort of thing, but maybe not.