I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google
Interview
Entered the Google process through a friend who'd also interviewed for the role and connected me to her recruiter. Timing was not an issue and the initial recruiter was both friendly and responsive.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You're a PM for Twitter and you're launching a feature that tracks the geographical position of every tweet. Go!
Applied through the campus website. Had an initial interview with a product manager. Then invited to college day in San Francisco where had a day of interviews. It was a round robin interview process with a large range of questions. After that was told I did not get to the next round of the interview about 2 weeks later.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Google in Nov 2013
Interview
First round telephone interview with a PM. Very straightforward interview (unexpected), none of the weird/crazy questions that I've read about. Basic behavioral - tell me about yourself, strengths/weaknesses, greatest professional achievement, bad team experience, why Google. And then some time for questions. A total of 45 minutes. No question on Google products, their strategy, design questions etc.
Seemed as though the interview was just a formality to reject my candidacy and that the decision was made beforehand. My answers were more or less scripted, well practiced and I don't see how any decision could have been made based on this interview.