I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Google in Sep 2021
Interview
It was kind of a strange experience. I applied to a position, the recruiter reached out and we never had any initial phone calls or anything. They simply set up a Google Meets meeting for a 45 minute technical screening.
I solved the technical question in O(n) and showed another way that it could be solved, I thought the conversation with the technical screener went well so I'm a bit perplexed why I didn't pass it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Given a string like "Wowwww" return the start and end indices of characters that repeat. This example would return `2, 5`.
- Tell me how you've handled performance tuning in your applications?
- Other questions in relation to my resume
I applied through other source. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Google (San Francisco, CA) in Apr 2022
Interview
Surprisingly, there was no phone screening/interviewing.
Loop virtual-interviews were directly scheduled.
None of the interviewers knew what role I was applying for, they didn't even had read my resume.
All questions were on algorithms.
No one single front-end question.
One of the interviewers arrived very late, he didn't even introduced himself, he had no idea what he was supposed to interview for. He was yawning during the interview which I found somewhat disrespectful.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Given a set of wireless routers that are interconnected, write an algorithm that finds the longest distance between these routers
2. Was supposed to be a system design interview, but this was the interviewer who arrived late and had no idea what he was supposed to interview for.
3. Design algorithm to instruct a robot how to go through a maze
4. Implement an auto-complete // trie implementation
5. Behavioral questions
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Google
Interview
I was directly called onsite after applying. They flew me to San Francisco and put me in a hotel close by. I had 5 technical on-site interviews. Most of them were on Trees and Graphs. Had a lunch interview which didn't count.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a color mixer given colors add or subtract the given color based on button pressed.