Where do you see yourself in five years? What are your weaknesses? What's another weakness? What's another weakness? What's the name of your last boss, and what how would that person rate you to work with 1 - 10? (I don't think they were actually going to contact them, just trying to get you to be honest by associating their name.)
What is one kind of tech (software) that you use often and how would you improve it?
How would you make the hiring process more efficient at Google (in terms of time consumption for engineers) ? What is your weakness ?
If you didn't have to work and could do anything you wanted, what would you do?
Trees and special sorts.
None of the questions were out of the blue but I was expected to read Arabic and talk in it which I hadn't prepared for earlier.
The programming question was more involved than I would have expected for one of these in home tests.
Unexpected: What is the most interesting thing about you that is not on your CV?
Was asked an extremely inappropriate personal question and promptly was pulled out of the process when I did not feel comfortable answering.
Don't remember specifics anymore, but definitely brush up on algorithms and creative ways to apply them. Find the naive solution first (usually not too difficult) then look at the way you implemented it to see if you can replace loops with dynamic programming and whatnot.
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