The recruiter reached out and asked for a month for a screen. Then it took almost 20-25 days to get results, and one more month to set up the onsite. Then it took almost 2 months to hear back the result.

1. Phone Screen

• Length of the longest increasing sequence in an array.
• Above with one imputation allowed.

1. Googlyness

• How to pitch your idea to business and management.
• Conflict with a team member regarding work timings.
• Credit taken.

1. DSA

• A two-player game (given lists of values): how to decide the winner based on maximum values, and if there's a tie, then based on lower values.
• Same with the count of values. Learning: Quickly adapt to edge cases, such as tie-breakers. For B), sort based on count and value.

1. ML System Design

• Harmful message detection system for internal Google employees, using LLMs for text or image messages. Include follow-ups on how to measure and improve the system.