I applied online. The process took 6 months. I interviewed at Google in Nov 2018
Interview
Applied online in September. Received a snapshot test + questionnaire later that day. Heard back within a week, but didn't receive an interview request for three weeks. After another 3 weeks, I was told they couldn't schedule the interview during any of my dates and it got moved back to the end of November. Apart from audio quality issues, the interview went well and the 2 interviewers were very polite and helpful. Roughly one month later, my recruiter requested I complete another interview. This one was scheduled much faster and seemed significantly harder than the first set of interviews. After 2 weeks I was told I had passed the hiring committee and was invited to the host matching stage. I received a request for a host interview in mid February (about 3 weeks after I started host matching) and received an offer the following Monday.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Part 1: Write a function called extendedIndexes that takes a word and returns the indexes where the word was extended. Extended means that the character repeats 3 or more times.
Part 2: Write a function called isExtendedDictionaryWord that checks if an extended word is actually a dictionary word when you compress it down.
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