I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Google (Dublin, Dublin) in Dec 2021
Interview
Interview was quite long and waiting times were too high. I did waste a lot of time!
Was aiming at L5 but after first round got an offer for L4, after another round of interviews I got the green light for team interview. Interviewed with HM and another Senior Engineer in the team (in two different days) and after another two weeks or so got the answer from Hiring Committee that I was being given an offer for L4 which I did not accept.
I applied online. I interviewed at Google in Dec 2021
Interview
Video call interview - standard programming question. Needed to write a unit test and proved my solution worked. (had to write a topological sort for the test) I did it in time.
I never got a callback after that. I thought i nailed it. The HR (recruiting for Taiwan) didn't even reply to my email. This is the second time a google HR (the other was a US recruiter) just flaked on me.
I think i'm done with this company forever.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Typical algorithm question on CS - you need to know graphs for this.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google (San Francisco, CA) in Feb 2022
Interview
Skipped phone interview to on-site, 3 rounds of coding, 1 design and 1 behavior. Google engineers are super easy to talk to making the interviews very good experience. Surprisingly all the answers for my coding are the same, not sure if they are looking for more advance algo answers. But I did still pass the interviews.