I applied online. I interviewed at Google (Bucharest, Bucuresti) in May 2026
Interview
The process consisted of 3 rounds:
1. Pre-screening with the recruiter
2. STAR 45 minutes interview + basic technical interview 45 minutes. I had them in the same day with a 30min break or something like that
3. 2x coding interviews with tasks from leetcode. Both were forced to be in the same day with an hour of break.
What I liked is that they provided me a very detailed feedback on each round in very deep details. I with there were more companies to work like that
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
on STAR interview they asked me how would I deal with a colleague that has different working style than me and this style blocks my work.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Mar 2026
Interview
The process took about seven weeks from start to finish. It kicked off with a 30-minute recruiter call where we talked through my background, target teams, and compensation expectations. About a week later I had a technical phone screen over Google Meet with a senior engineer — one medium-hard coding problem on a shared doc, no autocomplete, no run button. I got passed through to the onsite loop, which was five back-to-back virtual interviews on a single day: two coding rounds, one system design, one "Googleyness and Leadership" behavioral, and one coding round that leaned more into problem-solving and edge cases than raw algorithms. After the loop, my recruiter told me packets go to the hiring committee weekly, so I waited about ten days for a decision. Once HC approved me, I did two team match calls — one with a Search Infra team and one with a team working on internal developer tools — and I picked the second. Offer came through roughly two weeks after team match, then negotiation took another week.
They give you standard leetcode question and you need to answer while explaining your though process. You code on whiteboard and need to test your code without using an IDE.