I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Google (San Francisco, CA) in June 2018
Interview
I was reached out to via LinkedIn. I had a phone call with a Tech Recruiter, was never sent a job description... only was told "Partner Engineer, Google Cloud". I thought this looked good... but during the tech call, the recruiter couldn't answer anything really about the role. I asked for examples of the type of work I would do and he just told me it was all confidential. I asked how my skills would be applied to the role and he said he didn't have enough tech knowledge and said he would connect me with a "Champion".
Later that day, I got connected with someone else at google and asked to make schedule another phone call. Still I was never sent a job description. So I started looking things up here on glass door. I found one interview review that mentioned the salary ranges were way off. So before scheduling I wanted to as 2 questions.
1 . I wanted told them I found this review and said that we should make sure salaries match up so we don't waste everyone's time.
2. I also mentioned that, from what I read online about the role, that it was more of an Implementation/Integration and Professional Services role and not so much Full Stack JS Engineering role.
After asking these 2 questions... they decided not to move forward with me.
So they either don't like to be asked about salary so soon. Or I'm over qualified. Or something else didn't seem to work out. I've reached out for clarification.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Google in Oct 2018
Interview
I was contacted on LinkedIn, then went through a screener, passed, was assigned a recruiter who was rather unreliable, went through 3 video conference interviews, 2 interviewers were great, the other I could tell he wasn't in the mood to pass anyone, and sure enough I didn't pass on to the next stage which would have been the in-person interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I got many of the same/similar questions here, but think of other ways they could ask the question. The technical interview isn't very technical, no coding, not even a hello world.