Google

Application & Resume Screening You apply via Google Careers, referral, or campus recruiting. Recruiters/hiring team screen your CV for relevant experience, projects, and technical skills. If shortlisted, a recruiter reaches out. Recruiter Call /

The first call was a relaxed chat where my recruiter asked about my projects, my tech stack, and my coding experience, followed by two technical interviews after your resume gets shortlisted.

SQL & Data Modeling Writing non-trivial SQL queries Designing schemas for analytical workloads Normalization vs denormalization Partitioning, clustering, indexing Coding & Algorithms Implementing basic data transformations using Python or Java Man