The process took 7 weeks. I interviewed at Google (New York, NY) in Oct 2009
Interview
Interview process is very disorganized. Be prepared to have to shepherd it along yourself with follow up phone calls to ensure phone screens and whatnot actually take place. The on-site interview was actually pretty fun. Be sure you know your UNIX internals down cold. I'm actually surprised I wasn't offered the job, the interviews went fairly well. I suspect I was probably torpedoed in committee... I've been told that hiring decisions are made by arbitrarily chosen (volunteer driven) committees where applicants are regularly torpedoed for silly reasons or nitpicks on the part of one person on the committee.
HR round after applying, then coding screening round, if passes, then final round which consists of four coding round or three coding and one design round. Problem difficulty medium to hard.
I applied online. I interviewed at Google (Zürich) in Mar 2026
Interview
Frist had one roughly 20 to 30 minutes screening call with a recruiter, then had one online 45 minutes technical interview with a Google Site Reliability Engineer. The technical interview covered data structure and algorithm topics.
I applied online. I interviewed at Google (Dublin, Dublin) in Mar 2026
Interview
The interview lasted 45 minutes and was conducted one-on-one. I was required to walk through my thought process before coding and then implement an optimized solution with a focus on time complexity.