A recruiter reached out by email.

The first call with the recruiter included an initial screening with basic Linux and algorithmic questions.

Next was a telephonic coding interview. The question was straightforward, and I came up with a multi-threaded solution for efficiency reasons.

I was invited for an onsite interview.

The preparation materials provided for the interview process were amazing.

This was my first time interviewing for Google, so although I prepared, I felt I needed to prepare in a different manner. I didn't know any Google employees personally either, so honestly, I didn't know what to expect.

The interviews included:

• 3 programming interviews
• 1 large-scale system design interview
• 1 Linux back-end interview

The Linux session went well.

The system design session was okay; I should have provided more hard numbers.

Programming was a different story. At least in one of the sessions, I was caught by surprise by the simplicity of the problem. Nevertheless, I definitely could have done better.

I figured it would be a failure midway through the day itself, and that probably affected the interviews in the second half of the day.

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