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Applied through referral. Contacted by recruiting staff, and surprisingly they decided to bypass the phone screen and schedule an onsite at their Mountain View campus. Onsite interview was five 1-hour sessions, plus an 1-hour lunch in one of their

This is a standard tech interview. Many books out there can walk you through it. It typically involves a phone screen followed by four rounds of on-site interviews. This is normal.

I applied online, and I believe I also applied through my university's career site. They responded quickly and asked me to complete a coding sample. The coding sample consisted of two problems to be completed in one hour. The instructions explicitl