I had the worst interview process with Google, but it wasn't because of the interviews themselves. I started off with a really great, responsive recruiter who scheduled two technical phone screens about a week and a half out. The phone screens happened; they were pretty normal algorithmic questions. I passed them and was told to give availability for a second round of interviews.

I was also assigned to a new recruiter because my first one was leaving Google. I emailed the new recruiter my availability and got no response. I emailed her again a week later, and she responded saying we should set up a time to chat and I should send more availability for when people were back from the holidays. I immediately emailed her back, saying I was free to have a quick phone call with her in the next couple of days, and also sent additional availability for after the holidays.

...No response.

The holidays came and went. Then, in the first week of January, I got a job offer from another company. So, I emailed my Google recruiter and said I had an offer deadline. Still no response. I had the employee who referred me also email her, with no response.

The deadline arrived, and I accepted the offer from the other company.

The next day, my recruiter called me and said sorry, she'd been sick. I don't know whether or not this is true because normally, when recruiters are sick or out of office, they set up one of those automatic replies on their emails that says, "Hey, I've been sick. If it's urgent, contact person@company.com."

Anyway, bad experience. If you're looking to work at Google, you should probably start the process like four months in advance.

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