Initial call with the technical recruiter, then passed on to the technical interview. If you move forward from the first tech interview, then you go to another step that is 5 interviews in one. I did not make it to this step.

I will say the engineer said, "Don't sweat it if you do not make it in this time; there is a lot of luck with our process. Luck with the question you get, luck with the interviewer, etc." I appreciated her being honest.

Google's attitude is this: it is totally acceptable that they miss out on great engineers the first time around. They actually say a lot of their engineers go through the process multiple times before getting an offer. I think the whole interview process is draining, so I would not want to do it multiple times.

An algorithm question. I studied LeetCode and felt comfortable answering the question.