Recruiters at Google are incredibly responsive and do a fantastic job of making sure your applicant package is as strong as possible.

The process is lengthy and bureaucratic, consisting of roughly five stages:

• Recruiter screen
• Phone interview
• Onsite interview
• Hiring committee
• Executive committee

Each stage is separated by at least one week and up to one month.

If you can write clear code and have decent problem-solving skills, the interviews themselves will be a breeze. No personal or experiential questions were asked at all, besides a warm-up at the beginning of the first interview and after the interviewers' questions were exhausted.

Know basic data structures and ask the interviewer lots of questions.

People aren't kidding when they say it should feel like a conversation.