[plesner]

I conducted many interviews while I worked at google and I wouldn't trust anyone who tells you the interview situation as one particular, well-defined, thing. Individual interviewers have their own style, approach, goals. Even if people start from the same place because they go through the same interview training they inevitably drift in goals and interpretation of what the guidelines mean over the years. What your interview experience is going to be like depends on the particular people interviewing you.

By all means write a blog post telling what you yourself is like as an interviewer at google. But if you want to say something broader really ask yourself, what's your evidence that you understand how other people at google, on other teams and in other offices, do it.

[auiya]

This is exactly correct. I conducted dozens of interviews for Google myself, and while most went okay, some did not. Those were failings on my part, and I did my best to learn from those mistakes. That the interview process isn't more streamlined is a failing on the company's part however. Good interviewing techniques aren't formally taught there, and only learned via shadowing and sitting in on other interviews. This isn't just the case at Google either, but most large companies are generally bad at training employees how to conduct interviews intended to draw out sufficient hiring information on candidates. And yeah, interview quality there varied wildly from office to office, and especially across the remote sites.