I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Google in Jan 2016
Interview
Got a interview through a referral.
Got an email to schedule two phone interviews.
Both interviews included an algorithmic question which I had to code in Google Docs as the interviewer observed. The second interview also included a non-coding question where the interviewer described a requirement and I had to describe how I would design and implement the system in scale.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a system where a series of events get recorded. Each event has a timestamp. We want to have a page that shows the number of events that have occurred within the past minute, hour, 24 hours, ...
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