I had a phone screen and then an on-site interview, which consisted of five 1:1 technical interviews.

Google tends to avoid behavioral questions and focuses mostly on coding and past project work.

Getting through the hiring committee, team alignment, and SVP approval—all needed to generate the actual offer—takes a while. This can be problematic if you receive a competing offer in the interim.

I can't give away actual questions, but on some occasions, the answer lies in thinking outside the box.

This involves going beyond the pass/fail framework of most test cases in defining success.

Sometimes, whether a product or feature works or not cannot be boiled down to a simple binary.