I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Google (Dublin, Dublin) in Aug 2010
Interview
The most ridiculously drawn out interview process ever. I went through 14 interviews, realized people who work at Google are not all that brilliant, it's mostly self-aggrandized employees. As a non-engineer I found the salary offer insultingly low, lower than average pay for someone with that level of education and when I tried to negotiate salary they were not willing to budge. It took me three months to get passed all the interviews and an incredibly lengthy process that involves passing your papers on to Mountain View even if your interviews are in another country. Incredibly bureaucratic and the perks are not that great, my recruiter kept talking about the free food and massages to compensate for the low salary and it felt like their tag-line was "we're Google -- of course you want to work for us!". My advice, don't buy into the hype if you're a non-engineer, you can do better!
first in person interview after online . First job interview . Interviewer was very kind, and encouraging. It covered both soft skills for communications, and technical questions related to the job requirement
Good and total 5 rounds there. Jam, technical interview, HR round and some more are there. It was good. Nice experience. It was a walk-in drive. More than 300 members attended
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Google (Paris)
Interview
2 phone screens (1 with recruitment and 1 with team member) and 2 on-site interviews ( with 2 managers). Roughly 30mins/interview.Everyone was very friendly, even though the questions were not easy. Lots of questions about experience, no question such as "what are your 3 qualities and weaknesses". Very interested in what I was doing outside of work.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Can you tell me about a time when you faced a challenge at work and how you approached it.