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I was contacted by an external recruiter (not from Google) with whom I had a 30-minute interview. Then, I had the phone screen interview. It was a coding exercise done in Google Sheets. I was interviewed by a person from India. The interviewer was

Questions were asked that you'd only know if you studied beforehand, i.e., things you wouldn't use on a day-to-day basis at any job. So even if you've had a software engineer job for a decade, you'll still need to do prep work to interview.

The recruiter mentioned that she would target me for L4, but if I passed, they would add a system design round and consider me for L5. I was not selected after the first phone interview. It was a sorting question, not very tough but very time-consu