I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Los Angeles, CA) in Feb 2014
Interview
Was contacted by one recruiter to get information from me which they then sent to another recruiter in my area. Did a little back and forth with that recruiter, then scheduled the phone screen interview. Recruiter was helpful and answered any questions I had. They provided many links of topics I should know for the phone screen. Phone screen was on time, however it was quite obvious that they matched a phone screen interviewer who did not use the language I used (or did a hell of a job pretending they had no idea what pointers were), which was disappointing. If you make it past this round, you will have an on site interview. However, I was not lucky enough to have this opportunity.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Non-disclosure agreement. That being said, for an unexpected question, I was asked about a specific part of the language I was interviewing with that had no connection with any part of a normal CS interview I have ever had.
Very intense and I had to do about three separate interview rounds with about five to six separate interviewers. I was asked a lot of questions about coding and google and about my experience.
Straightforward process, exactly what the recruiter described. Several technical interviews and some personal interviews. When it wasn't clear if they could hire/reject me they gave me an additional technical interview.
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Google (Bengaluru) in Jul 2025
Interview
It started with an telephone interview on DSA questions, after that there is an onsite round with 3 role-specific rounds focused on system-design,Linux/Unix and Debugging rounds, the interviews are very open-ended
