I received a referral and was contacted by a recruiter within a couple of days. I was then invited to an onsite interview.

I had five interviews in total: four were general coding interviews, and one was about program analysis. The coding questions were at an intermediate level. I was able to describe different approaches and came up with a solution on the whiteboard. I felt good about my performance after the interviews. However, my overall experience was not as I expected.

My first two interviews were held in a nice room with a sufficiently large whiteboard. The first two interviewers were very pleasant. After lunch, my room was changed. It was a small room with a really, really small whiteboard, approximately 30 inches wide. It was challenging to code on such a small board and to write clean code. I had to erase parts I had written earlier to fit everything. One of the interviewers was inattentive; he was not paying attention to the interview. He mentioned he had a meeting afterward, and I suspect he was preoccupied with it.

Unfortunately, Google did not request any feedback on the interview. I might have felt more positive about the interview process if I had had the opportunity to provide my feedback directly to Google.

Signed NDA.