I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Sep 2025
Interview
Two back-to-back 45-minute interviews with one technical question for each, the difficulty is similar to one lc medium and one lc hard. The first one is divide and conquer to do it in subproblems. The second one is a backtracking matrix question similar to a Sudoku question. No behavioral question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The first one is divide and conquer to do it in subproblems. The second one is a backtracking matrix question similar to a Sudoku question.
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