I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Google in Oct 2016
Interview
The first phase of the interview was over a mobile phone line with a lag measured in seconds, even though I provided my GMail account for a VoIP link.
The Google recruiter was lacking a technical background, but was nice and helpful, until he asked for the emails of 3 of my code monkey buddies so he can fulfil some recruiting quota. I delayed, he cut me off, end of story.
Very intense and I had to do about three separate interview rounds with about five to six separate interviewers. I was asked a lot of questions about coding and google and about my experience.
Straightforward process, exactly what the recruiter described. Several technical interviews and some personal interviews. When it wasn't clear if they could hire/reject me they gave me an additional technical interview.
Application
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Google (Bengaluru) in Jul 2025
Interview
It started with an telephone interview on DSA questions, after that there is an onsite round with 3 role-specific rounds focused on system-design,Linux/Unix and Debugging rounds, the interviews are very open-ended