I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google (São Paulo, ) in Apr 2024
Interview
Started really great with a phone intervewer telling details about the role and the process. Materials for a study guide were provided (Basically everything teached on Computer Engineering graduation course).
Followed there was a first technical interview where the interviewer was really cold. It asked a few questions about your background, but was only interested on the technical aspects of it, proceeding to a technical exercise.
During the exercise I tough the recruiter was weird and didn't give a f****, even though I was making slow progress towards the solution.
So basically they want some sort of leetcode robot without real world software implementation experience and without soft skills from my experience with the interview.
If your dream is to work at google at some point in your carrer, consider reviewing the basics and training graphs and trees uphand in order to become a robot, I believe that's all that's needed.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement the algorithm to calculate the diameter of a binary tree.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Google in Jun 2022
Interview
After being referred to google and completing the initial application there was about one month before I got a link to some coding tests. After completing those and a month latter I had a meeting with someone from google recruiting team explaining the next steps which was a series of 4 interviews. 1 about personality and 3 technical interviews all about 1 hour long. All these were virtual.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I can not disclose the questions since I signed an NDA.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Google in Aug 2022
Interview
The process begun with a recruiter screen and was then followed with a technical phone screen. The technical phone screen was an easy LC problem. Once completed, the final round was a virtual onsite which was 3 45 interviews with Med/Hard LC problems as well as 1 culture/personality interview. I felt I had no business interviewing with Google, yet the interviewers and recruiters did a fantastic job providing comfort and assistance as needed.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One questions I can recall was essentially to design and write a word processor. One that takes a string and an action (add, delete, edit).