Google Hiring Process

Sounds like someone had a bad interviewing experience with Google...

Your bad Google recruiter experience wasn't that unusual.

can you please share what that question was? just curious. I've read many other articles about candidates having had similar experiences. Its one of the reasons i dont like Google as a company

This is not true. (I interview candidates at Google)

Google is hiring like mad. How hard is it really to get an interview?

I don't know Google's hiring process, but your experience is probably very atypical -- they came to you, and not you them, correct?

I got interviewed by Google twice, started by direct invitation from their HR team as I never applied to Google, naturally I bombed both times as I am not the PhD kind of developer they are after.In every single time their recruiters were telling me our wonderful my CV was and they wanted definitely to have me there, naturally with a selection role totally unrelated for the kind of positions that I was applying for.The third time I got a direct invitation from their HR team, I made it clea

This is correct. It's unfortunate, but unless you can mandate Google to change their entire interviewing regime, you have to simply understand that this is the perspective, and move forward demonstrating yourself against this criteria, whatever else you may think.

What's the standard interview process at Google? Does it really take 3 months of interviewing to get a job?

This is normal for Google's byzantine hiring process. I got in once a while back (way before what I'm doing now) with a high recommendation from an insider, successfully cleared the interviews, and never heard anything. They even flew me to Mountain View.The second time they called, I declined.