# **INTERVIEW PROCESS**\n\n**Recruiter Connect**: Recruiter can contact the candidate based on his/her profiles on Linkedin etc or if any of his/her known has referred him/her to the company. However, it\u2019s always best to message the recruiters via linkedin and apply for the roles in the Career page of Google. If the candidate is good in DS & Algo skills it is highly recommended that he/she participate in Google Kickstart, this is Google\u2019s hiring contest which happens 6 times in a year. If the performance in those competitions is good the recruiters will contact you easily.\n\n**Interview Rounds**: Google has a total of 7 rounds. First two are telephonic interviews where the interviewer mostly asks one medium or two easy Algo DS problems to the candidate and the candidate has 45 minutes to solve the problems. However if the performance in Kickstart is good, these rounds are skipped and you directly move to the next rounds. Next we have 5 onsite interviews out of which 4 are Algo DS interviews and 1 is Googliness interview, Googliness interview is mostly a behavioral interview.\n\n**After Interviews**: Once the interviews are over, the recruiter will contact you with the feedback of the interviews, if the performance is good and the interviews are cleared your profile goes to the different teams in Google for the team matching round. In the team matching round the team understands your work style and your interests and you can understand their requirements and the work expectations of the team.\nHired: Once the team and you both are comfortable and ready to start, the offer letter is prepared and shared with you by the recruiters and you are HIRED!\n\n\n# **INTERVIEW ROUNDS**\n\n**Telephonic Interviews (Two Rounds)**: These are two 45 minute interviews on the phone where the interviewer shares a Google Doc with the candidate and asks either a medium problem or two easy problems of Algorithms and DS. It is expected that the candidate first explains the solution of the problem to the interviewer and then codes the problem on google doc within the time of the interview. (Suggestion: Practice writing the code on google doc if you have any interview coming up as it is a different experience compared to writing the code in any text editor).\n\n**Algo DS Interviews (Three or Four Rounds)**: These are 45 minute interviews where the interviewer shares a Google Doc with the candidate and asks Medium to Hard problems of Algorithms and DS. It is expected that the candidate first explains the solution of the problem to the interviewer and then codes the problem on google doc within the time of the interview.\nGoogliness Interviews (One Round) This is a new interview which Google started in 2020. It\u2019s mostly the behavioral interview to check the cultural fitness of the candidate in the company.\n\n# **SOME QUESTIONS ASKED IN THE GOOGLE INTERVIEW**\n\n* Gas Station\n* Majority Element\n* Max Rectangle in Binary Matrix\n* Distinct Subsequences\n* Palindrome Partitioning II\n* Min Jumps Array\n* Edit Distance\n* Word Break\n* Regular Expression II\n* Interleaving Strings

INTERVIEW PROCESS\n\nRecruiter Connect: Recruiter can contact the candidate based on his/her profiles on Linkedin etc or if any of his/her known has referred hi