Google

Absolutely painful interview. I had to fly out to Mountain View, where I was asked a series of asinine puzzle questions. Of course, they were incredibly contrived, and the interviews seemed completely dispassionate.

Standard technical screening with a hiring manager, followed by a technical phone interview consisting of a coding question. I completely botched the technical phone interview, so I didn't make it to the on-site round.

The recruiter reached out to me via LinkedIn and scheduled a TPS round. I was given a medium-difficulty question that tested my knowledge of data structures and linked it with an algorithm. After solving this with an optimal solution, my interviewer