I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Bengaluru) in June 2015
Interview
A technical recruiter did a small screening to know my strengths and weakness and scheduled a telephonic round. I asked for a weeks time.
One telephonic round, call was from Australia. Site Reliability Engineer Role.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A jigsaw puzzle with peices protrduing out or in. Can you quickly say, given the size of puzzle and pieces whether it is solvabale or not
Very intense and I had to do about three separate interview rounds with about five to six separate interviewers. I was asked a lot of questions about coding and google and about my experience.
Straightforward process, exactly what the recruiter described. Several technical interviews and some personal interviews. When it wasn't clear if they could hire/reject me they gave me an additional technical interview.
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Google (Bengaluru) in July 2025
Interview
It started with an telephone interview on DSA questions, after that there is an onsite round with 3 role-specific rounds focused on system-design,Linux/Unix and Debugging rounds, the interviews are very open-ended