I was approached via email by one of their recruiters, who asked me to submit my name for a position on their UX team. I was never sent a description of a job. This has happened twice in the past 3 years. In the first instance, I only spoke with a recruiter who "shopped" my resume around to teams to see if they thought there was a fit. There wasn't. The second time I got through to someone on their UX team. He asked me questions about my work and my portfolio, and he described the workplace at Google. The recruiter called me about 2-3 days later to ask how I thought the interview went; I thought it went well. I was actually pretty surprised and devastatingly disappointed when the recruiter told me that I wasn't right for Google. I didn't get any feedback about what they didn't like. I have to rate this as a pretty negative experience on Google's part. It's incredibly rude to ask someone to interview for a position where pre-screening hasn't already taken place. In my experience, if an in-house recruiter contacts me, it's because someone has already chosen a subset of candidates. To me, this is like being personally invited to a party, and then being rejected by the bouncer.

I had 3 rounds total. 1st round was with HR, with the remaining rounds being with the Head of Product and the tech teams. The last round was the hardest, as I had to do a portfolio review