I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google (São Paulo, São Paulo) in Apr 2024
Interview
Started really great with a phone intervewer telling details about the role and the process. Materials for a study guide were provided (Basically everything teached on Computer Engineering graduation course).
Followed there was a first technical interview where the interviewer was really cold. It asked a few questions about your background, but was only interested on the technical aspects of it, proceeding to a technical exercise.
During the exercise I tough the recruiter was weird and didn't give a f****, even though I was making slow progress towards the solution.
So basically they want some sort of leetcode robot without real world software implementation experience and without soft skills from my experience with the interview.
If your dream is to work at google at some point in your carrer, consider reviewing the basics and training graphs and trees uphand in order to become a robot, I believe that's all that's needed.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement the algorithm to calculate the diameter of a binary tree.
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.