I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google in Sep 2020
Interview
Got HR call several days after submitting application, standard questions about myself and why google. First round technical phone call was about a design of a game, I got confused initially when I hear "design a game" as I was not prepared for a "system design" type interview, after a quick clarification, I formulated the problem into a graph problem and successfully solved it, interviewer then went on and asked some graph theoretical questions. The one-site consisted of 3 coding, 1 system, and 1 behavior. Codings were not standard LC questions as they require candidate to define the tasks and input. I completely bombed the system design interview.
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Question 1
Graph, Dynamic Programming, Design of distributed system for a hypothetical google service.
After clearing all the interviews in 2 months, here comes the team match. Where no one ever knows when they gonna get a team match call. Even if you get the TM call next comes the HC again no one knows why they reject.
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Question 1
Coding questions from Leetcode google tagged but deep dived into it based on the level.
The interview lasted about a day, with 5 different interviewers. For each section, the technical questions took most of the part. They also showed me their office in Toronto, which was nice
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Question 1
What was the most difficult problem you solved during your last job?
it was difficult. lengthy dsa questions. design was ok. needs nice preperation. googlyness also needs preperation. it was difficult. lengthy dsa questions. design was ok. needs nice preperation. googlyness also needs preperation.
