I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Google in Oct 2017
Interview
Found the secret foobar link after searching technical terms on Google. Finish level 3 of the challenge, got contacted by a recruiter. Had to fill out a questionnaire about background and interests and scheduled a phone interview. First phone interview went fine even though I did end up not getting the right answer on some edge cases. After a while, got contacted by the recruiter for a second phone interview. This one was supposed to be harder and it did not go well. Got a phone call saying that I was rejected after 3 days.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
If you have an input string and a list of pairs of commands and the length of the string that command applies to, find apply the commands in order
Given a list containing nodes of the tree in a triplet format containing the node id, its parent id, and its weight. Find the weight at each node which is the sum of the weights of all of its descendants.
I applied through college or university. The process took 8 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Raleigh, NC) in Feb 2018
Interview
The interview process took 8+ weeks. I received a coding challenge in which I had to solve 2 questions in 45 min. A few days later I received mail from HR to schedule 2 phone interview calls(45 min each). One question was based on tree traversal and the other was on rectangles. 2 weeks later I got a mail that I had not been selected for future project rounds.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Jan 2018
Interview
We went to the technical questions directly. The interviewers are very nice. They first talk about the question and then write the key words on the google doc. They helped me to point out the bugs and help me to fix it.