I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Google in Oct 2014
Interview
Applied online. After an initial screening of my CV I had two technical phone interviews. Within one week both were scheduled on the same day.
Afterwards I entered the host matching phase. I had to fill a questionaire describing my skills and interests and wait for teams to be interested.
This phase took way longer.
The second interested in my application team was willing to take me as an intern.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a numerym (first letter + length of omitted characters + last letter), how would you return all possible original words? E.G. i18n the numeronym of internationalization
HR round after applying, then coding screening round, if passes, then final round which consists of four coding round or three coding and one design round. Problem difficulty medium to hard.
I applied online. I interviewed at Google (Zürich) in Mar 2026
Interview
Frist had one roughly 20 to 30 minutes screening call with a recruiter, then had one online 45 minutes technical interview with a Google Site Reliability Engineer. The technical interview covered data structure and algorithm topics.
I applied online. I interviewed at Google (Dublin, Dublin) in Mar 2026
Interview
The interview lasted 45 minutes and was conducted one-on-one. I was required to walk through my thought process before coding and then implement an optimized solution with a focus on time complexity.