Google L3 Interview Experience

The recruiter reached out to me via linkedin in the middle of Oct 2024, I asked time for preparation for 3 weeks.

TPS is scheduled in the first week of november. Interviewer didnt show up, Rescheduled to second week of nov.

TPS Round: 45 min Question related to Trie and the code was lengthy, i was able to answer only one. Feedback: LH/H

Recruiter reached out to schedule 4 onsite rounds in the next week each round on each day. Interviewers didnt show up for two rounds and My first two rounds are scheduled again to next weeek after googleyness round.

DSA round 3: 45 min Was so nervous and interviewer looked intimidating on top of that and I messed up with time management. I dont exactly remember the question it was related to 2D arrays, given (x,y)coordinates as query and find if that could form rectangle with already existing coordinates in the system. A follow up question was asked to this, something related to finding maximum area among all. Feedback: LH/H

Googleyness round: 1 hr Interviewer was confused and wasted around 15 min as he thought it was DSA round and didnt check his mail properly. He took next 45 min to ask about past experience and leadership and behavioural questions. Answered most of them in STAR method. Feedback: H/SH

DSA Round 1: 45 min (Last week of Nov) The interviewer asked me question related to Graph traversal and i used BFS, a follow up question was asked. I coded optimized and explain it well, The Interviewer seemed pretty satisfied. Feedback: SH

DSA Round 2: 45 min (First week of Dec) I Vaguely remember this round. I was asked question on Binary trees and a follow up on n-ary trees. I coded and explained it well Feedback; H/SH

i got a call last week of Dec and Team Fit Call was scheduled next day. Team Matching round: 1 hr HM explained his team and the projects they are working on and tech stack and asked about my experience and everything that i put on my resume and few questions on Cloud tech and tools.

My package went to HC and after two to three weeks the recruiter reached out to me for additional coding interview.

Additional DSA round: 45 min I didnt prepare for this as i had like a day to prepare. I remember the interviewer asked something about arrays and binary search and i coded it and explained it to him in given time.

Recruiter didnt care to reach out to me for more than three weeks and i couldnt reach out to him by any means but mail. I kept sending mail for checking in for update. I was ghosted and after some time i got mail that my profile was sent across for team matching. You can imagine i was very exhausted at this point and this was around last week of Jan 2025.

After 2 months of ghosting, recruiter called me and said that they werent impressed with the feedback received for additional round and moving onto other candidates.

That's the end of my gruesome and mentally taxing hiring process. Didnt want to post but thought it would help someone.