[FaceKicker]

I agree that Google has a terrible recruitment process for internships. The first year I applied, I made it past both "technical interviews" and had a "host interview" scheduled, only to have it cancelled. My recruiter said he was pretty sure I'd get another, but I never did.

The second year (last year), my experience was similar, except this time I bugged my recruiter pretty much every other week until I had a host interview (got TWO of them cancelled on me but finally the third one actually happened) and I got the job.

Despite the terrible process, it is an absolutely amazing place to work. Everything you've heard is true: the food is amazing, the work atmosphere is amazing, the people are geniuses. Also, the compensation is absolutely absurd for undergraduate interns (last year it was $69,600/yr prorated to $1338/wk, and this year they bumped it up to $80,000/yr prorated to $1538/wk, with a $3500 lump sum relocation stipend on top of that. I know it's even higher for grad interns but I don't know the exact numbers).

Despite the admittedly awful process (easily the worst I've been through), it was absolutely worth it to me and I'd recommend anyone stick with it and hope you get lucky like I did. It really does come down to luck whether or not you get a host interview once you've passed your two technical interviews.