I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Google in Sep 2025
Interview
First interviewer didnt ask for my name or abou my resume, straight into problem, and was very unhelpful, it comes from interviwer to interviewer, but if you get unlucky your going to have a bad time
wifi broke second interview
I applied online. I interviewed at Google (New York, NY)
Interview
Leetcode style questions related to dictionary. Interviewer had me code it on a google doc, no IDE given. Was not too challenging, but 1nd one was a little tougher to do than the first one for sure.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Google (New York, NY) in Oct 2025
Interview
Two rounds of coding.
https://leetcode.com/problems/russian-doll-envelopes/description/
https://leetcode.com/problems/next-greater-numerically-balanced-number/description/?envType=daily-question&envId=2025-10-24
First the recruiter reached out with google work style assessment, then followed up with asking for my transcripts. Eventually two online remote coding rounds were scheduled where we are asked the standard leetcode questions. We were expected to write the optimized code and explain the approach along with time and space complexity.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
https://leetcode.com/problems/russian-doll-envelopes/description/
Standard leetcode problem solved using LIS on heights after sorting by widths.