2 phone screens, 4 on-sites, one team match call, 2 more on-sites only to hear a rejection. The process took 4 months. Make sure you're a patient person and don't.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Behavioral: What would you do if one of your teammates had a specific way of working? (reworded)
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google (London, England) in Oct 2024
Interview
Telephone round followed by onsite interview
Top k elements using heap but interview wanted a more efficient solution quick select algorithm.
Interviewer was based in a different office and not friendly. Didn’t provide any examples to the question asked and communication was off. However, it was a good experience and I’ll interview again in the future.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about yourself and straight to coding questions after that
I interviewed at Google (London, England) in Aug 2024
Interview
Phone call with a recruiter followed by a coding interviews. Did not make it past that stage. The question I got was quite difficult and I did come up with a non optimal algorithm but that was not enough.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a matrix of 1’s and 0’s, where 1’s represent land and 0’s represent water, find the number of islands