I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Google (Bengaluru) in Jul 2025
Interview
Its an on campus opportunity thus firstly i got shortlisted in the screening coding round then i have an opportunity to give interview .
My interview was descent an array question like that of next greater element to the left but was not solved using that concept .But my approach is correct i dry run then they looks satisfied then they told me to code.have done it easily now a follow up came in which i told the brute force and optimised one but still got rejected .
ps: many from our college got chance of round 2 even on not properly solving the follow up so LUCK matters a lot...
I applied online. I interviewed at Google (Sydney)
Interview
It is very clear that Google is outsourcing recruiters from another country, and while typically not an issue the recruiters made this process feel unprofessional and not well-managed. The initial interview felt very robotic, the person interviewing me was clearly reading off a script and not paying attention to what I was saying at all. Asked me for a preferred language for the coding interview and I said Javascript or C, She somehow put Python down.
Coding interview was fine. The interviewer was calm and very understanding, and it felt more like peer programming than an interview.
Following this specific interview, I was emailed three separate times - one email had a link to enter my details in and said congratulations, you've moved on to the next step while the other two emails were rejections- very confusing and unprofessional.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One coding question in a chosen language to solve a problem on the Google coding whiteboard
It was an online on campus interview
They asked mostly cs fundamentals and 2 medium dsa questions. In Round 2 they talked about my projects and some puzzles they were testing in depth knowledge about my projects and also comm skills