I was contacted by a recruiter on LinkedIn to ascertain my interest in the company. They set me up with a 45-minute technical screening interview on the phone, where I was asked to write code to solve a simple problem in a Google Doc.

After this, another recruiter at Google contacted me with a specific job and team I would interview with. I flew down to Mountain View, where five different interviewers asked me coding questions to solve on a whiteboard, similar to the phone interview.

After this, Google verified all my references, who were each asked to fill out a very detailed questionnaire.

Everyone I dealt with was very pleasant and professional.

I was surprised that the questions were not very difficult. Anyone with a decent grasp of fundamental CS concepts should be able to do well in this interview.

None of the questions needed any clever tricks or "aha" insights, just straightforward application of fundamental computer science.