It is very clear that Google is outsourcing recruiters from another country. While typically not an issue, the recruiters made this process feel unprofessional and not well-managed.

The initial interview felt very robotic; the person interviewing me was clearly reading off a script and not paying attention to what I was saying at all. They asked me for a preferred language for the coding interview, and I said Javascript or C, but they somehow put Python down.

The coding interview was fine. The interviewer was calm and very understanding, and it felt more like peer programming than an interview.

Following this specific interview, I was emailed three separate times. One email had a link to enter my details and said congratulations, you've moved on to the next step, while the other two emails were rejections – very confusing and unprofessional.

One coding question in a chosen language to solve a problem on the Google coding whiteboard.