The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Google (Kirkland, WA) in Nov 2024
Interview
[Mock Interview] Did introductions, talked about L3 level role, gave a question about a list of tournament style teams as numbers. You were asked to compare the groups of 2 numbers beside eachother and determine if they were all valid pairs (valid pair was if the top seed was indeed playing to lowest seed, ex. 1st seed plays 8th seed, 2nd seed plays 7th seed and so on) if there was a game where the team was incorrectly paired, (ex. a 1st seed playing a 2nd seed in the first round,), then the bracket was invalid and youd return false
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There is a N player tournament. Players have rank 1 to N and each player has a unique rank. Assume that the best player always wins, where the best player is the player with rank 1.
The tournament is a knockout tournament. A draw is a valid draw when in each round, the best (based on rank) player plays with the worst player, the second best player plays with the second worst player, and so on.
Given a draw, find out whether it is a valid draw.
First step was a online technical and behavioral assessment. Leading into a call with a recruiter to setup a time for an onsite interview. The onsite interview consisted of 4 total interviews, 3 being technical and 1 behavioral.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is a quality you want to see in a good manager.
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Google in Oct 2024
Interview
The interview began with an online assessment. They were both LC easy to easy-medium questions. After that the recruiter reached out to me and we had a 15 minutes chat about google, my interests and deadlines, and how the interview process works. After this, I scheduled the on-site which are 3 technical rounds and 1 behavioral rounds. The technical rounds ranged from LC easy to LC medium where all the problems are very doable, The first two interviewers I had were great but the last technical interview had a thick accent and bad reception so he kept having delays and cutting out. The behavioral round was the hardest of the four surprisingly. It was basic questions about my experience, how I would act in situations, etc. however my interviewer had absolutely no conversational skills and it felt like talking to a wall. Every answer I gave was met with short and curt responses that I felt was a bit rude.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Trie, sorting, stack, greedy, and backtracking based questions. Most people also get dp and graph but I didn't get any.