I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Google (New York, NY) in Apr 2012
Interview
Phone screen followed by onsite interview. I was asked "what is an RPC" call, I sited a form of IPC followed by a number of examples. I thought I answered was sufficient, they were looking for something outside of the client/server model specific to Java RPC stub calls and such. I thought this was odd given that Java development wasn't my forte.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There wasn't any question that was overly difficult, they were looking for a developer mostly and I just wasn't at that level, it's not clear how they separate SRE from DevOps to Developer.
Very intense and I had to do about three separate interview rounds with about five to six separate interviewers. I was asked a lot of questions about coding and google and about my experience.
Straightforward process, exactly what the recruiter described. Several technical interviews and some personal interviews. When it wasn't clear if they could hire/reject me they gave me an additional technical interview.
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Google (Bengaluru) in Jul 2025
Interview
It started with an telephone interview on DSA questions, after that there is an onsite round with 3 role-specific rounds focused on system-design,Linux/Unix and Debugging rounds, the interviews are very open-ended
