I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Feb 2011
Interview
Was contacted by a recruiting firm regarding a contract position. Standard interview, none of the hard/tricky questions that others had experienced and posted about on the web. Questions were very straight forward and typical.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What I didn't expect was that they had me role play a phone interview of a potential candidate on the spot.