I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Zürich) in Jan 2011
Interview
Phone interview, then 2 interviews at a branch office close to where I lived, then some 5 interviews in a day in the office I applied for.
Interviews are technical, be prepared to solve concrete problems, may involve coding, complexity of algorithms, system design. Interviewers are more or less free to ask what they think is relevant, so one interviewer asked about concrete numbers for how long a certain algorithm would run (i.e. expected some basic knowledge about typical hardware), others wanted to know complexity of algorithms or problems in concurrency, or what the most exciting thing was that I learned. If you write about what you did prior, be prepared to answer detailed technical questions about it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you detect a loop in values generated by x <- f(x) ?
After clearing all the interviews in 2 months, here comes the team match. Where no one ever knows when they gonna get a team match call. Even if you get the TM call next comes the HC again no one knows why they reject.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Coding questions from Leetcode google tagged but deep dived into it based on the level.
The interview lasted about a day, with 5 different interviewers. For each section, the technical questions took most of the part. They also showed me their office in Toronto, which was nice
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What was the most difficult problem you solved during your last job?
it was difficult. lengthy dsa questions. design was ok. needs nice preperation. googlyness also needs preperation. it was difficult. lengthy dsa questions. design was ok. needs nice preperation. googlyness also needs preperation.
