I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Google (Bengaluru) in Nov 2022
Interview
Got a call from HR and scheduled the interviews. There was 2 coding interviews and 1 system design interview. In the first coding interview priority queue based question was asked see leetcode question no 1834.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One Priority queue based question. One Bfs based question
Initial intro call, prep time , prep material provisions,
1 Phone Screening by HR, 3 DSA, 1 HLD and 1 Googliness, Team matching and offer negotiation and offer discussion , offer acceptance
After clearing all the interviews in 2 months, here comes the team match. Where no one ever knows when they gonna get a team match call. Even if you get the TM call next comes the HC again no one knows why they reject.
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Question 1
Coding questions from Leetcode google tagged but deep dived into it based on the level.
The interview lasted about a day, with 5 different interviewers. For each section, the technical questions took most of the part. They also showed me their office in Toronto, which was nice
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Question 1
What was the most difficult problem you solved during your last job?