I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Google (San Jose, CA) in Dec 2017
Interview
Firstly they will send a coding challenge covering two coding problems, then there will be two back-to-back phone interviews. If scores in two rounds are not identical, there will be one additional phone interviews
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Algorithm coding problems with medium difficulty. One problem for each round with several following questions. Code quality is really important. Be prepare to improve your intuitive solution to the most efficient one.
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