I recently had a phone screen with Google for an SDE position. The interviewer was an experienced Googler and after a short introduction, he started with a simple problem where he asked me to design a class that takes input as a list of unsorted intervals and a list of target number(s). The goal is to search for those targets and return if they exist. The problem is simply an extended version of https://leetcode.com/problems/merge-intervals/ and binary search. As usual, I started with test cases first, asked some clarifying questions about the corner cases etc, and completed the code. We discussed alternative approaches, runtime, space complexity, trade-offs, etc. In the end, he told me that, the recruiter might take about a week to get back to me but the interview was good and he is satisfied with the code. After a couple of days, I followed up with the recruiter but there was no response. Finally, a week later I received an auto-generated rejection email from the recruiter.
I had two on-site interviews in the past and unlike this time, I always had a good experience with Google recruiters. I recently received offers from both Amazon and Meta and was pleasantly surprised with the efforts the Amazon and Meta recruiters took to make sure that the candidates will have every chance to be successful. They arranged prep sessions, interview tips, and even live informal chats with their current employees/future teammates. Throughout the process, the Google recruiter behaved like, she is making me a great favor by allowing me to be interviewed with Google.