I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Google in Oct 2018
Interview
I applied in mid-September through an employee referral. A week later a recruiter reached out to gather additional information, i.e. availability in the next three weeks, skills, interests etc. I took the whole three-week window in order to better prepare for the technical interviews. There were two back to back interviews, each 45 minute long. The interviewers were really friendly and helpful. They were constantly giving me feedback. I can't disclose the questions since I've signed NDA but they were mostly Leetcode medium. After the interviews, the next day, I heard back from the recruiter that I've been sent to the hiring committee. Two weeks later, the recruiter reached out to me say that my interview feedback was positive and that they moving me into host matching phase. A week later I got a match and scheduled the interview the next day. Typically, Google host matching process is long and not-so-transparent. But I got a quick match because I think I filled up the project preference form as detailed as I could, using all the character limit. A week later the recruiter reached out to me to tell that my host wants to go ahead with. I gracefully accepted the offer right away. A week later, I got my official offer letter.
I applied online. I interviewed at Google in Oct 2018
Interview
I applied online and received an interview at my university in October 2018. It was 2 back-to-back interviews with 2 of Google's software engineers, each about 45 minutes long. Each engineer started off introducing themselves and then asked me one non-technical question: "i.e. what is an accomplishment you are proud of?" and then we jumped straight into the technical questions. Technical questions were pretty straightforward algorithms questions.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Given 2 strings containing regular characters and backspace characters (represented by "<"), return true if both strings are the same after all backspaces are processed and false otherwise.
ie) should return true for "abc<<de<f" and "adca<<f"
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Oct 2018
Interview
You apply.
Complete a lot of paperwork
Get emailed to schedule an interview
They call you on the phone and make you code a basic challenge on Google Docs
Twice
Got called to tell me they were not considering me anymore
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Typical Leet code questions regarding data structures and to code it in google Docs