I had two brief interviews with Google's legal department. The first one was a pre-screen with a recruiter, and it lasted about 30 minutes. The recruiter was very nice, asked a lot of substantive questions and scheduled the next round to interview with someone more senior in the department. I had a quick phone screen wiht that person. It was a very rushed interview and seemed immediately obvious that I did not have the experience this particular person was hoping I would have (and which I never claimed to have had, either in person or on my resume). I never heard from them again. Many of my friends and colleagues have interviewed at Google, to varying degrees of success, and I am told that it's an excruciating process. My impression is that they didn't have a clear idea of what kind of experience they were looking for for this particular role, and it had been a posting that had been up for a very long time, which indicates that there is disagreement on what the candidate profile should look like.

First call was w/recruiter. Then after an in-person interview with several people, I had several separate calls w/individuals in different departments at Google. Great interviews with great people, but I was never told I was out of the running until I called the recruiter after not hearing for several weeks.