I applied online. The process took 5 months. I interviewed at Google in Jan 2022
Interview
Very lengthy - Resume screening It took about one month to receive a message from a recruiter. - 2 technical interviews They are brilliant and incredible engineers. I got positive feedback after two weeks. - host matching process For some reason, sometimes they tend not to match you with suitable hosts, which can take weeks between interviews (after you did not match with one). This spanned over 2.5 months and had 4 host matching sessions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Coding: - Binary search in a string - A searchable catalogue class using a hashmap Other: - What is your experience? - Why did you study Computer Science? - What are your interests? (trick question during host matching interviews: share only what interests you and your potential host. Oversharing might give the host a bad impression.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Google in Dec 2021
Interview
The recruiter set up a phone screen after passing an online assessment. 2 1 hour long interviews followed this. I then waited for feedback from the recruiter. This took a while in the hiring committee phase.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Google (New Delhi) in Jul 2021
Interview
It was an oncampus opportunity. There was an Online Assesment with 2 questions of mid to high level to be solved in 1 hour. This was followed by two rounds of interviews both of which had Leetcode hard level questions to be solved and then optimized for.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leetcode Hard level questions on 2D DP involving paths in a matrix