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You submit a series of essays to be accepted into the program. The prompts are extremely similar to something you would find in the Common App. The essays, if I remember correctly, have a word limit of 500 words.

A straightforward process, exactly what the recruiter described. It involved several technical interviews and some personal interviews. When it wasn't clear if they could hire or reject me, they gave me an additional technical interview.

I applied for a Google SWE position and went through a recruiter call first. The recruiter was very friendly and clear about the process. My phone screen had two coding questions: * One on arrays (two sum variant) * Another on dynamic programming (u