There were 4 coding interviews, and one system design interview. Got feedback along the whole process, got an offer pretty quickly after finishing. The recruiter cared a lot about what I had to say and was super focused on my needs.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given points on the plane standing for trees in a forest and a camera-man standing in the forest, with a camera with a field of view angle alpha, in which direction should the photographer face to maximize the amount of trees within the picture?
It was great, DSA rounds focused heavily! Overall 4-6 rounds expected and last round for projects, It was hasd DSA round, focused on graphs dp and advanced topics. Focus on DSA and DSA and DSA
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Google (Sunnyvale, CA) in May 2026
Interview
Day 1: Phone screen leetcode and behavioral round
Results came within an hour
Day 2: 3 rounds, 2 LC and 1 system design. Design: Metrics ingestion system
Results took a week
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Given some job intervals (start and end times), assign intervals to schedulers that can process them. Assume that you have unlimited number of schedulers. Find the minimum number of schedulers needed to fulfill this system
Follow up questions like what is the maximum number of schedulers that are occupied at any point in time.
You have a jammed keyboard where a key can get tyoed multiple times when you press it. You also have a dictionary of good words. Given a word, find match in dictionary. Given word caannoon, dictionary: [canon, can,]
The process includes referral, followed by an online assessment, then a first round with two interviews (Googliness & Leadership and coding), and a second round consisting of two technical coding interviews.