I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 months. I interviewed at Google (Bengaluru) in Sept 2025
Interview
Recruiter reached out, asked for a month time for screen, then it took almost 20-25 days to get results, and took one more month for setting up onsite, then it took almost 2 month to hear back the result.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Phone Screen -
- Length of longest increasing sequence in array
- Above with 1 imputation allowed
2. Googlyness -
- How to pitch your idea to business, manager
- Conflict with team member, work timings
- Credit taken
3. DSA -
- 2 player game (given lists of values), how to decide winner - max based, if tie then based on lower values
-Same with count of values
Learning - quickly adapt to the edge cases - tie break, for b) sort based (count, value).
3. ML system design -
- Harmful message detection system for internal google employees. using LLM and all for text or image messages. and followups on how to measure and improve etc.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Hyderābād) in May 2025
Interview
I was suprised that for a frontend focused role they have some good DSA questions around JS. I faced a question around KMP and a question around a graph of promises.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1.) Question around KMP algo?
2.) Question around a graph of promises.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Google (Bengaluru) in May 2024
Interview
It was great, with mainly focusing on DSA. It has 5 rounds in total with a googliness round at the end which has equal weightage.I was asked a medium-hard difficulty question in DSA.