I received an HR call several days after submitting my application. The questions were standard, covering my background and reasons for applying to Google.

The first-round technical phone call focused on game design. I was initially confused when I heard "design a game," as I wasn't prepared for a "system design" type interview. After a quick clarification, I formulated the problem as a graph problem and successfully solved it. The interviewer then asked some graph theoretical questions.

The on-site interview consisted of:

• 3 coding interviews
• 1 system design interview
• 1 behavioral interview

The coding questions were not standard LeetCode problems; they required candidates to define the tasks and input themselves. I completely bombed the system design interview.

Graph Dynamic Programming Design of a distributed system for a hypothetical Google service.