I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Sep 2025
Interview
Two back-to-back 45-minute interviews with one technical question for each, the difficulty is similar to one lc medium and one lc hard. The first one is divide and conquer to do it in subproblems. The second one is a backtracking matrix question similar to a Sudoku question. No behavioral question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The first one is divide and conquer to do it in subproblems. The second one is a backtracking matrix question similar to a Sudoku question.
I applied online. I interviewed at Google in Sep 2025
Interview
Two back to back 45 minute coding interviews focused on algs and data structures. Still waiting to hear back on the results but the questions were leetcode easy level. The prep they provide is accurate.
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Google in Oct 2025
Interview
I had two interviews both leetcode style. Usually google asks graph or tree questions, but I was given a array with Kadane's algorithm and a string parsing question. The interviewers were very nice and it felt more like a collaboration than an interview. I wasn't able to code up the optimal solution, but was able to conceptually talk about it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an array of integers find the maximum sum of the integers between two indices where the indices have the same value.