Interview date was April 2014. I first applied through their online jobs portal. That job listing was also listed on LinkedIn where I first found it. Three days after my application was submitted, I received an email from a recruiter asking me a few questions about which location I wanted to work at since the job posting had several locations available. I was then transferred to another recruiter who asked me several more specific questions (other job offer timelines, days available to interview, do I know anyone at Google, etc.). I told her a list of days available to me and an official phone interview day was scheduled 2 weeks later. I was given a list of reading materials including blogs on the interviewing process and book recommendations. The phone interview was 45 minutes long, and we jumped straight into the questions. There were two programming questions that I had to answer/code in a Google doc. After the coding was done my interviewer asked me if I had any questions for him. He was very nice and despite a thick accent managed to convey the problems to me clearly.