I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Google in Sep 2015
Interview
I applied through a referral in September 2015. A week later they got back to me and scheduled for 2 45-minute phone interviews, coding in a Google doc. Both interviewers were very friendly and supportive (it was hard to understand one of them because of the accent though). Both interviews consisted mainly of coding questions. However, we discussed my resume with the second interviewer for ~ 5 minutes.
I heard back from my recruiter 3 weeks after the interview. They were ready to proceed with the offer before the host matching process (open offer - guarantees you a project during host matching).
Later I had three host matching interviews. In the first one the host decided to go forward with another candidate, the second project was not interesting to me and the third one was pretty much a perfect match :)
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
Your CV says you do mobile development for both Android and iOS. Could you compare the development process for those 2 platforms?
I saw XXX project on your GitHub. Could you implement YYY (connected to the topic of the project)? Later: suppose the requirements change as follows ... How would you change the solution?
there is no online assessment, very simple phone call, then two technicals. technicals are not difficult by any means. then you get put into team matching, after a couple months
I applied online. I interviewed at Google (Sydney) in Jun 2026
Interview
Resume screening and then two 2 rounds of technical interviews, on an elimination basis. Interview done on google docs with no IDE, dsa leetcode style question. May be asked follow up questions on how to optimise your solution or on how you would code up a solution to a similar problem.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
DSA tree question, medium-hard leetcode difficulty.
Home exam, 2 questions in 90 mins
Then they did 2 interviews-45 mins each
It was on google meet
The interviews are in English, the first question was matrix dfs and the second one was hashmap with random function