People dread the Google interviews because they are painful and exhausting. Not because they are a good test of ability. In my experience, Google's interview p

People dread the Google interviews because they are painful and exhausting. Not because they are a good test of ability. In my experience, Google's interview process is very random. You never know when you're going to get some jackass who wants to ask you some aha-problem question. When I was at Google we had some interns who were forced to reinterview, and some of the best were knocked out by a question about betting on the color of shells chosen in complete darkness or some such nonsense. Side note -- I had impostor syndrome at Google because I had only gotten through the interviews, and never done any CS coursework.