HR reached out to me via call, and scheduled the interview. The first round was scheduled after 2 weeks. In the first round itself, there was a programming round of 45 minutes
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement smart malloc and smart free function in C. These functions must return a pointer which is memory aligned
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Google (Bengaluru) in May 2025
Interview
Recruiter reached out in Feb, Had my screening round in March. Then 4 rounds in April-May. In June I got to know that I've passed the interviews and moved to team matching phase.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Simplifying a string expression containing multiple brackets and operands such as +, - . I had to remove all the brackets and simplify the expression.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google in Apr 2024
Interview
Recruiter got my profile from application list. Connected me through phone, and discussed on the process. After couple of discussions we agreed upon 1 month as preparation time. Interview schedule is also shared on a date after a month (as provided by me). They will be also providing us the preparation materials, to be frank you will get a better preparation strategy from medium blogs or youtube. Process include 5 "onsite" virtual Hangouts interviews - 3 x ds/ago, 1 system design and 1 Googleyness and Leadership .
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an array stream of 1's and 0's like '101110111000010'. Also assume this in DB and we have an API called query(indexOne, indexTwo), where it gives the result that range have contains 1 or not. Give an algo to efficiently find how many one's contains in the stream.
