The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Google (Kirkland, WA) in Nov 2024
Interview
[Mock Interview] Did introductions, talked about L3 level role, gave a question about a list of tournament style teams as numbers. You were asked to compare the groups of 2 numbers beside eachother and determine if they were all valid pairs (valid pair was if the top seed was indeed playing to lowest seed, ex. 1st seed plays 8th seed, 2nd seed plays 7th seed and so on) if there was a game where the team was incorrectly paired, (ex. a 1st seed playing a 2nd seed in the first round,), then the bracket was invalid and youd return false
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There is a N player tournament. Players have rank 1 to N and each player has a unique rank. Assume that the best player always wins, where the best player is the player with rank 1.
The tournament is a knockout tournament. A draw is a valid draw when in each round, the best (based on rank) player plays with the worst player, the second best player plays with the second worst player, and so on.
Given a draw, find out whether it is a valid draw.
Online assessment, group recruiter call about how the interview process would look like, then I was proceeded to final onsite. 3 technical rounds and 1 behavioral in one day. The technical rounds were medium-hard LC style problem solving.
I applied online. I interviewed at Google (Los Angeles, CA)
Interview
had 2 interviews, 1 behavioral and 1 technical. both the interviewer were really nice. the technical was like an easy - med trees ques. the next phase is offline for which they are sponsoring.
Just did an OA and then the first round. First round was a 30 minute behavioral followed by a 30 minute technical I believe (could’ve been an hour each I don’t remember). OA was super easy, and the technical was a step up but not too bad. I think I just didn’t move forward because of how I answered the behavioral questions, but also my behavioral interviewer was incredibly unprofessional so I didn’t really care that I didn’t move forward.