I was contacted by a recruiter at Google for the position. He got me a phone screen after a week. The interviewer asked me a simple question, which I did solve. The question was about processing an incoming stream of data using a given algorithm. He followed up by asking me how I would test the algorithm. I didn't get past the phone screen because I made too many mistakes while writing the code to solve the problem. I did find the errors, but the fact that I made them in the first place was a big negative.

He asked me about my current work and the challenges involved.