Google

A pretty standard interview process. Based on employee recommendations, Google waived the phone interview. There were five 1:1 interviews: coding, algorithms, and system design. No puzzles or trick questions were asked. I spoke with two teams and

The interview included scripted questions, general engineering questions, work history, and a few more generic "problem solving" questions. For example, "If you were shrunk down to the size of a dime and put in a blender, how would you escape?"

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.