I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Google (New York, NY) in Apr 2017
Interview
Two Telephone Interviews followed by an On-Site Interview; screening process was the usual from the many stories i've heard at Google, nothing out of the ordinary, interviewers are usually journeymen techies, and are reading from a prompt. Other than that, one is expected to be fully proficient in SRE principles including distributed computing.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find the Height of a Binary Search Tree; How many leave-levels would a Tree with X amount of Nodes contain?
HR round after applying, then coding screening round, if passes, then final round which consists of four coding round or three coding and one design round. Problem difficulty medium to hard.
I applied online. I interviewed at Google (Zúrich) in Mar 2026
Interview
Frist had one roughly 20 to 30 minutes screening call with a recruiter, then had one online 45 minutes technical interview with a Google Site Reliability Engineer. The technical interview covered data structure and algorithm topics.
I applied online. I interviewed at Google (Dublín, Dublín) in Mar 2026
Interview
The interview lasted 45 minutes and was conducted one-on-one. I was required to walk through my thought process before coding and then implement an optimized solution with a focus on time complexity.
