I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Google in Apr 2014
Interview
Google continues to play the game of "20 questions" despite the fact that it has admitted that a better approach to finding good employees would be to determine whether the potential employee plays well with others. The Google interviewers are typically young and therefore inexperienced with the interview process, and hence don't know how to interview a candidate effectively.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A system architecture question about how to synchronize temporally a cluster of computers.
The interview lasted about a day, with 5 different interviewers. For each section, the technical questions took most of the part. They also showed me their office in Toronto, which was nice
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What was the most difficult problem you solved during your last job?
it was difficult. lengthy dsa questions. design was ok. needs nice preperation. googlyness also needs preperation. it was difficult. lengthy dsa questions. design was ok. needs nice preperation. googlyness also needs preperation.
One of the interviewer seemed disintered about core tack and focused on AI only. No techinical project wer considered ven if they were highly rated by peers an the community