I applied online. The process took 6 months. I interviewed at Google (London, England) in Jan 2025
Interview
Applied with no referral. Passed the OA, then had to fill in a lengthy questionnaire, take two different technicals, passed both and was put on team matching stage, Did not match with a team. entire process from application to final rejection was about 6+ months.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
string manipulation, dp and tries. A bunch of follow-up, testing and discussion on code optimisation i.e space / time complexity.
I applied online. I interviewed at Google (San Francisco, CA) in Dec 2025
Interview
was a smooth but technical process, a lot of emphasis on soft skills and creative thinking, assuming this was to observe how we fit in with the company with regards to our ability to connect dots
Multiple interview rounds initial rounds dont ask for anything besdies leetcode and are extremely scrutinized no room to be humble ruins chances ideally 300+ leetcode solved the interview questions themselves are easy enough
I applied through university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Google in Jul 2025
Interview
One OA round and 2 Technical rounds. The OA had 2 DSA questions in 90 minutes and the 2 Technical Rounds also had 2 questions based on Arrays, Binary Search, Trees and Graph. I had to improve the time complexity of each solution I coded.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There were no HR related questions. The interiew was solely DSA focused.
