I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Feb 2018
Interview
I was able to get a recruiter to contact me and ask for my resume by doing Google's Foo Bar challenge. After that, we scheduled a phone interview with an engineer where they asked me two string related coding problems, one easy one medium.
My recruiter contacted me about 4 hours later telling me we were moving onto an onsite.
At the onsite it was 2 interviews, 1 lunch interview, and 2 more interviews. Most of them were really nice, even though I could tell some of them didn't like me much. Only finished early with one of my interviewers, and we had a nice talk after. I thought I did okay, but looking back there were a lot of mistakes I made.
The process was entirely technical and enjoyable since I'm not very good with behavioral questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Phone:
1. Find the first occurrence of a character that appears in the string more than once.
2. Shortest unique prefix
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Bengaluru)
Interview
I have filled the from linkedin job notification. Then after 20 days, I got interview call. There is direct interview call and they have sent mail to circuital branch b.tech student only.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 months. I interviewed at Google (Vāranāsi) in Sep 2025
Interview
Round 1 – Data Structures & Algorithms:
Focused entirely on problem-solving and coding. The questions were of medium to hard difficulty level, testing both optimization skills and clarity of thought.
Round 2 – DSA + Googliness & Leadership:
This round included a mix of coding and behavioral evaluation. The DSA portion featured problems related to Dynamic Programming, one being similar to the Longest Increasing Subsequence type.
The last 15 minutes were dedicated to Googliness and Leadership, where I was asked situational and HR-style questions such as:
A conflict you faced and how you resolved it
Your biggest achievement or failure
How you approach challenges and teamwork
Round 3 – Technical + Behavioral mix (if applicable):
Further assessment of coding proficiency, structured thinking, and communication.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The DSA portion featured problems related to Dynamic Programming, one being similar to the Longest Increasing Subsequence type.
The last 15 minutes were dedicated to Googliness and Leadership, where I was asked situational and HR-style questions such as:
A conflict you faced and how you resolved it
Your biggest achievement or failure
How you approach challenges and teamwork
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Google in Aug 2025
Interview
The interviewer was multitasking while he was interviewing me, and well he was doing it effortlessly.
He began by saying it will be a 1 hr interview, with first 45 minutes for DSA and last 15 minutes for HR questions, he then began without asking for an intro, and pasted the question to the doc.
I was able to come up with a solution within time, so I briefly explained it to him, he asked me to code it up after clarifying/understanding my approach.
After I was done, he gave another follow-up, which I gave multiple approaches to, but not the one he expected. However, he appreciated that I tried approaching in multiple ways. And he asked some common HR questions the last 15 mins, and the interview ended successfully!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an undirected connected graph, alice and bob start from different nodes A and B and want to reach a destination node D
if they travel separate edges count them as separate, and if they meet at some node and travel the same edge together, count it as a single edge
find the minimum no of total edges travelled by alice and bob to reach D.