I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google
Interview
I had a phone interview asking a technical question. I passed that and made it to the virtual on-sites. For the on-site interviews, there were 4 technical (algorithms) interviews and 1 behavioral interview. I did not get the job.
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They asked me 4 technical (algorithms) questions and some behavioral questions.
The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Google (Seattle, WA) in Sep 2021
Interview
First of all: My guess is that the interview difficulty, the hiring bar, and the interview types -- code, design, etc -- depend on which level you are interviewing for. I interviewed for L4 specifically (I think the title is SWE III?).
The process started with a quick HR phone call, then proceeded to tech phone screen, and finally the virtual onsite -- 4 coding interviews, and 1 behavioral. I passed the onsite and met with a couple of hiring managers for the team matching stage. During team matching, I left the process since I had a great offer from another company that was about to expire, and I felt my Google
recruiter was taking too long to get back to me. I didn't get an offer explicitly, but they implied I would get an offer once I found a team.
My tech screen questions were easy to medium, but the onsite questions were somewhat harder. I started off every onsite interview looking at the problem and being completely clueless as to how to solve it, but by following advice like in CTCI and other resources, I thought of a basic approach that worked and iterated with some help from the interviewer to write reasonable code. Not amazing code, but reasonable.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Jan 2017
Interview
By far my best Big 4 recruitment experience. My recruiters went out of their way to inform me about their process, to make sure that any questions that I had were answered, and provided me with materials to prepare for my interviews. My process took longer than usual due to the holidays.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Multiple questions about data structures, graphs, and matrices.