I was referred by an employee at Google Seattle. Initial contact was made by an Alumni Specialist, as I had previously interned but have a year of industry experience. The specialist determined my project interests and location preference, and then connected me with an appropriate recruiter (in London).

I skipped over the initial tech screen and went straight to an onsite, with an option of interviewing in Seattle (where I was living) or flying to London. I opted for interviewing locally, as I didn't want jet lag to negatively affect my performance. I scheduled it about a month later to allow time to prepare.

A standard day of interviews ran from 10 am to 4 pm. There were:

• 2 coding/algorithms interviews in the morning
• 1 non-tech lunch interview, in which I got paired up with a friend of mine from college who works at Google (no feedback is written for this round)
• 3 coding/algorithms interviews in the afternoon

After the onsite interview, it took about a week to get feedback, which was positive, so I moved into team matching (prior to hiring committee, which is apparently the newest policy). I had team matching calls with 3 teams over the course of a week and a half, before moving into hiring committee.

I received an offer shortly thereafter.

From initial contact by Alumni Specialist to receiving an offer: 84 days. From onsite interviews to receiving an offer: 34 days.

I signed an NDA, so I cannot disclose specific details.

The questions were heavily focused on tree and graph algorithms. They were interesting and not the classic, run-of-the-mill LeetCode questions.

All of my interviewers were engaging and very open to having conversations about the problems, which made solving them much more enjoyable and realistic to day-to-day work.