Amazing recruiters. Very friendly call with an initial recuiter who asked me to rate my abilities and then gave a "pop quiz" at the end. I got a few wrong but it was enough to get a phone interview. The phone interview was 45 minutes and was half programming/scripting and then 4 or 5 linux questions. I did okay, I didn't think I did excellent. I thought google would expect "excellent" and the process would end there. But to my surprise 2 days later they said they'd like to fly me out to Mountainview to interview. All accommodations were taken care of quickly and efficiently - flight, car, food, amazing hotel. There were 5 onsite interviews. 2 management interviews, 1 troubleshooting/linux/networking, 1 NALSD (non-abstract large scale system design) and 1 programming/scripting. Everyone was extremely friendly and nice. They all seemed like wonderful conversations. There were no "gotcha" questions. Because I was applying as an SE ("System Engineer") not SWE ("Software Engineer") there were no algorithms, sorting, graphs/trees, etc. The programming/scripting was practical, real world coding. It took 2 weeks to get everything finalized and to receive an offer letter. I can't stress enough how great the recruiters were - I felt like they were my advocates