I interviewed at Google (San Francisco, CA) in Feb 2021
Interview
I applied online via Google Careers in August and heard back in September that I was not being considered. I was reached out to in February by a recruiter about the role who scheduled a screening call with me. Asked normal screening questions with a couple of problem-solving questions at the end.
Got an email about 2 days later that I had made it to virtual interviews. I had about 3 virtual interviews scheduled for 3 or 4 days later. Two 30 min interviews and one 45 min interview including a business case.
After that, my recruiter reached out a couple of times for additional information about my background. About 2 weeks later I got a job offer.
The whole process took about 3.5 weeks.
I have seen comments on here about recruiters being cold but I honestly had an absolutely amazing experience!
Google does a very good job at providing a general understanding of what to expect but also Youtube is a great source as well as Glassdoor. I studied a bunch of traditional interview questions and prepared for the problem / behavioral questions. One thing I can say is you honestly cannot predict what kind of questions they are going to ask you. I would say the best thing you can do is just have a plan for your process for problem-solving. I thought many of my answers were probably "wrong" but I used a specific process to problem solve and talked through my thinking and why I said what I said.
The process is really complicated, questions are really detailed. Need to prepare. Wishing you all huge success! I had 3 rounds and a prep call. Recruiters are really easy going and responsive.
Disorganized recruiting with random meeting invites with no explanations. Interviewer wasn’t welcoming at all and seemed to not care at all about the interview. The feedback call after the interview sounded like recruiter was reading an AI generating summary of the interview, which felt not personal at all. Overall awful experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell us about a time when you had to manage a team
Got reached out to by a recruiter.
Passed the screening call last week.
rd1 interview is coming up this week (11 days after).
Apparently only 2 rds of interviews this process. Though the 2nd interview consists of 2 45min interviews in one.