I felt a lack of diversity. One interviewer was completely unethical and mannerless. He thinks he's in his village advising some natives there. That really pissed me off, and therefore I guess I had decided not to go ahead even if I got selected. Personally, I didn't want to continue the interview but thought, as a courtesy, I should go ahead for the next three hours.

I hate the fact that 10 years of legit experience doesn't count and only a few theoretical questions (which are being asked) count. More than half of the folks seemed junior to me.

Anyway, from the latest memos and talks about Google culture, I should not be surprised about the kind of people hired.

Google might be a great company with good people too, but not in this team. Perhaps I should try the main campus area.

When you are bringing some senior guy onsite, instead of asking theoretically useless questions, you should be more focused on the STAR process.

Asked about:

• Binary search trees and N-trees (expectations are that you have done a PhD on them)
• Hash tables
• Sorting

For networking:

• Basics of BGP and ARP; nothing else.

Python code:

• Program for dictionary value addition.
• Entire BST implementation, including printing the BST and changing parent nodes.

Note: If you are thinking of using libraries with built-in functions, that won't work. They want the entire flow. Syntax is important.