I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Hyderābād) in Jan 2016
Interview
Discussion about the projects worked in previous company and how did you handle certain situation occurred while working on the project. You are provided with different Excel files and the data format those files contain. You are also provided with low level parser. You have to design a system which takes the excel file and its data type as the input and returns the list of Data objects in the file.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design Memory Management System and tell about all the data structures you will use and why. How will you allocate and deallocate the memory using those data structure and Time & Space complexity of the operations.
It was fine, they asked very basic questions but I nailed it.
Why Google
Why PA
Tell me about a time you faced a failure, what did you do
Why are you interested in enterprise/Cloud
What is your favorite product in the space
Not too difficult. Typically questions. Asked about experience, why you want to work for Google, and strengths/weaknesses. There was a period for any questions you have. They were mostly friendly and conversational. It was a great interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about yourself and why you want to work for Google
the interview process was fast and transparent. had alot of information on the company. was told about where to meet and when prior to the interview in a email sent by them after applying
