I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Google (New York, NY) in Oct 2015
Interview
My interviewer had a really heavy accent and I could barely understand him. The mic also echoed really badly. The questions were difficult but studying CIC is definitely helpful!
Overall, I would say that don't be too excited when you get this. Go in prepared, and you're good.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
something related to interfaces, I can't remember.
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Google
Interview
Applied on the website and the recruiter contacted me in 2-3 months via email with interview details.
Two interviews in a row, the interviewers were nice.
However, after the interview, not a single feedback was given. Pretty bad experience.
I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Boston, MA) in Oct 2015
Interview
I did 1 phone screen with a recruiter, and then did a more in depth technical interview over the phone. The recruiter phone screen was pretty simple, mostly what I was interested in. The tech interview was with a software engineer, who seemed like a good interviewer, though our interests didn't overlap. I wanted to do machine learning, and he quizzed me on software engineering skills. He liked me and recommended they hired me, but we couldn't find a good fit within the machine learning teams.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One thing asked was how I would design a search engine, purely based on finding words in a document. Issues like scalability were the main topic of discussion