Applied online, heard back from a recruiter in less than 3 days. Starts with a basic phone screen. Then moves onto a phone screen with a designer. I passed that stage and was given a week to complete a design exercise. They tell you people usually spend 8 -10 hours on it but theres no way you can give a well thought out, designed, and user tested project that fast when working on your own. I got good feedback from my design exercise and was invited for an onsite interview. My onsite started with a presentation of my design exercise and then a walkthrough of my portfolio to different UXers from the company. I then had one on one's with 5 different individuals. They were all very friendly and I remember leaving think I did overall pretty good on my interivews. It took a week for all my interviewers to complete their feedback. My recruiter than told me my packet was getting sent to the hiring committee. After that I got an email saying the hiring committee had given their feedback and that there were several other approvals still on-going. On the hiring packet they intially give you the last step says offer approval so in my head I thought I was at that stage due to the language my recruiter was using. A week passed from that email and then I get an email from my recruiter saying my feedback was in and she wanted to discuss. This is where I realized I didn't have the offer since her langauge wasn't an indicator of a "soft no". I got the phone call and was told I was rejected in the hiring committee and they wanted me to reapply in a year when I had more experience. My advice is to take the process very seriously, know what is important in the google design community, be able to talk about user research, know that you need to share projects you did in a group and what was the outcome, share how your experience aligns with the role, and come into the interview calm yet confident. Best of luck to all the aspiring Google Interaction Designers out there! My process was exactly 2 monthes so know you are in for a long haul but it goes quick.