I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Google in Oct 2017
Interview
Found the secret foobar link after searching technical terms on Google. Finish level 3 of the challenge, got contacted by a recruiter. Had to fill out a questionnaire about background and interests and scheduled a phone interview. First phone interview went fine even though I did end up not getting the right answer on some edge cases. After a while, got contacted by the recruiter for a second phone interview. This one was supposed to be harder and it did not go well. Got a phone call saying that I was rejected after 3 days.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
If you have an input string and a list of pairs of commands and the length of the string that command applies to, find apply the commands in order
Given a list containing nodes of the tree in a triplet format containing the node id, its parent id, and its weight. Find the weight at each node which is the sum of the weights of all of its descendants.
Home exam, 2 questions in 90 mins
Then they did 2 interviews-45 mins each
It was on google meet
The interviews are in English, the first question was matrix dfs and the second one was hashmap with random function
There were multiple stages to the process, but the main one of which was technical interviews through digital meetings (Zoom) consisted of 2 meetings, in which you have to solve 1 leet-code style question, levels medium-hard.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Google (Tel Aviv-Yafo)
Interview
My application process started in November with two LeetCode-style home assignments. In December, I sat for two technical interviews on Google Meet. Although they were meant to be back-to-back, one was rescheduled after the interviewer didn't show up. I successfully navigated a medium question with a follow-up and a hard DFS/graph problem.
Two weeks later, in January, I moved into the host-matching phase. After one team match interview in February, I wasn't selected, and by April, I received a final update that the process was closing because no further team matches were found.