I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Google in Jan 2019
Interview
After I applied for the position, I first received a coding challenge in about one month. Then, after three weeks, an HR contacted me and helped me schedule two back-to-back phone interviews, each lasted for 45mins. In the day after the b2b interview, I got an email from my HR telling me to schedule one additional 45min phone interview. The interviewers are very patient and helpful, making me feel good about Google.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
For the phone interviews, the first round was about completing an iterator interface. The second round was to calculate the number of trailing zeros after multiplying a group of integers. The third round was to find if a node in a graph is GUARANTEED to reach to the success node.
there is no online assessment, very simple phone call, then two technicals. technicals are not difficult by any means. then you get put into team matching, after a couple months
I applied online. I interviewed at Google (Sydney) in Jun 2026
Interview
Resume screening and then two 2 rounds of technical interviews, on an elimination basis. Interview done on google docs with no IDE, dsa leetcode style question. May be asked follow up questions on how to optimise your solution or on how you would code up a solution to a similar problem.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
DSA tree question, medium-hard leetcode difficulty.
Home exam, 2 questions in 90 mins
Then they did 2 interviews-45 mins each
It was on google meet
The interviews are in English, the first question was matrix dfs and the second one was hashmap with random function