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Had a coding interview: 2 coding questions in 60 minutes on the Google coding platform. It was similar to TopCoder (1 difficult, 1 medium). This was followed by a 45-minute phone interview on Google Docs.

An engineer from Mountain View was called in for a phone interview for a Chicago opening. The initial friendly talk transitioned to coding over Google Docs. Preoccupied with a practice problem, they chose an ill-suited data structure. They couldn't

It was a hard, long day of coding questions. It was hard to tell how I was doing. I was nervous and didn’t enjoy coding difficult problems under a short time constraint. The soft skills part was also hard to get a read on if I was doing well; the i