Google Site Reliability Engineer interview questions

Great experience - cool people, stimulating interviews, very efficient HR. Two coding questions on phone interview - one on adding integers of arbitrary size and another that I can't recall. On-site interview entailed 5 back-to-back interviews and lunch. 1. Talk with a manager and question regarding TCP Path MTU discovery - black hole connection. 2. Others were whiteboard coding and design questions. Study up on algorithms and data structs! Will be trying again in a year.

I applied online and never heard back. Several months later, I was referred by a friend at the company, and recruited to be an SRE based on my experience. Since the SRE jobs would have required relocation, I opted to interview for a Software Engineer role. I didn't get an offer as a Software Engineer, but based on the feedback from that I was recruited again the next year as an SRE, and was ready to relocate at that time. The hiring process at Google is very slow. It took several weeks between resuming contact with their recruiter and getting an offer. If you're out of work and looking to get a job ASAP, Google may not be the best choice. If you're in no rush, it can be very worthwhile.