The process began with two phone screens, followed by an onsite interview.

The second phone screen involved basic technical questions.

The onsite interview consisted of two 50-minute sessions with developers from the team I applied to.

After these interviews, an experienced employee joined me for lunch. This was a non-technical Q&A session.

Following lunch, there were two more 50-minute interviews with interviewers from other departments at Google.

Each 50-minute interview included a coding question to be completed within 45 minutes, followed by a 5-minute Q&A. Coding was done on a whiteboard.

The questions were generally easy, but candidates were expected to explain their ideas and algorithms while coding.

If a question was completed with significant time remaining, a follow-up question would be posed, up to a maximum of three, or conceptual questions would be asked to fill the remaining time.

I tackled approximately 10 coding problems and one design problem across the four interviews.

Despite feeling confident in my answers, I was ultimately rejected. The recruiter declined to provide specific reasons.