Google Software Engineer Interview

Interviewed Dec 2009 in Pittsburgh, PA (took 3 months)

Applied for the position online. HR contacted to schedule telephone interview. I asked for 3 weeks time. HR sent some general information on how to prepare for interviews. "Programming interviews exposed" and tutorials on topcoders.com were included in the reference material. The telephone interview was 1 hr long. There were three questions. Towards the end the interviewer asked me to code the algorithm for the last question. There was not much time left. On site interview was scheduled about 1.5 months latter. There were 5 1-on-1 interviews and a lunch interview. 4 out of 5 interviews involved writing code on the board. The last interview was general discussion on how to design a solution for a distributed system that the interviewer explained.