So first of all this is not &quot;a secret&quot; at all and you don&#x27;t need to be &quot;special&quot; to do it. And of course you don&#x27;t get targeted personally but they do an automated&#x2F;anonymous match on your search history. It&#x27;s just one of many inbound HR&#x2F;recruiting funnels and it was featured in an internal newsletter that went out to all of Eng some time ago.<p>Second, they tell every applicant that openly discussing the interview process (esp blogging about it) will get you disqualified&#x2F;blacklisted from any future positions at google. So if you have posted this before your first day and didn&#x27;t discuss it with your recruiter&#x2F;hr person at the G, it was probably not a very smart move.<p>PS: It really isn&#x27;t too hard to get into their interview process. If you create a github account and push some code one of their recruiters will probably approach you after a while. You can also just send them your CV and I am pretty sure you get the same process&#x2F;treatment as anybody else.