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
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