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I had two rounds of phone interviews. In the first round, the interviewer asked me about my current experience, motivation to work at Google, etc. I believe this was mostly to get an understanding of who should be interviewing me. In the second rou

One phone screen, then an on-site with five interviews. Four of the five interviews were standard data structures and algorithms. The last was a discussion of my PhD research.

The interview process seemed entirely focused on efficient searching algorithms and asked no questions to assess my knowledge of the area I was interviewing for. In fact, none of the interviewers had any background in the area I was interviewing for;