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I went onsite with the Mountain View campus for a position in the Google Cloud division. A total of five interviewers participated. It's unclear how they selected the interviewers; in the end, three interviewers asked distributed systems questions.

First, I received a link to solve two coding questions within 90 minutes. Nothing too complex, focusing on string manipulation and general data structures, with an emphasis on HashMaps. Then, I had two phone interviews with two engineers. It took me

It was conducted over a Google Hangouts session. It lasted about an hour. The question seemed manageable at first, but as you start to delve into it, you really begin to see how complicated it can get.