I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Google (San Mateo, CA) in Apr 2025
Interview
I was given a behavioral assessment which i pass. After passing, i was contacted by a recruiter to start the process of the four round panel interview. For the four round, i was given a whole month to prepare. The first 3 rounds are technical and they can very from medium to hard on leetcode level. The first one was recursion, the second round was a tree/graph and the third round was map/string. The last round was the googliness and that was behavioral.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The difficult questions was about filling buckets of water with the given information. Is a hard level question from leetcode
The interview was conducted as a technical DSA round for an SDE-2 role. The interviewer started by explaining the problem and expectations, then gave time to think and discuss the approach. The focus was not only on arriving at the solution but also on explaining the thought process, assumptions, and optimizations. The interviewer was interactive and encouraged discussion and clarification during problem-solving.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked a problem based on buildings of different heights and rainfall, a variation of the classic Trapping Rain Water problem, where I had to determine where the least amount of water would accumulate.
Dynamic programming was asked in detail else included operating system, computer networks , data structure and algorithm, now writing just to fulfill 30 word criteria, don't mind, one more thing, graph was also asked in detail
It was a structured interview process with one initial screening round followed by four onsite interviews, designed to assess technical skills, problem-solving abilities, and overall team and cultural fit.
It was a structured interview process with one initial screening round followed by four onsite interviews, designed to assess technical skills, problem-solving abilities, and overall team and cultural fit.
