It was very exausting and some of the questions were very random and had nothing to do with anything. That is the truth unfortunatly, really wish it wasnt as I'd love to have been able to work there
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Do you plan on getting pregnant in the next few years
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Google (Gurgaon, Haryana) in Sept 2025
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Four rounds Round 0 was dsa round , round 1 they provide an assignment with questions where we have to provide output to them, round 3 they review the project then in last they ask the techstack related questions
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Dynamic programming based dsa questions, prototypes and promises in javascript
So, I recently went through the Google backend engineer interview process, and wow—it’s as intense as they say. It all started when a friend referred me, and within a week, a recruiter reached out. The initial chat was pretty chill; mostly about my background, projects, and why I was interested in Google. I mentioned my experience with distributed systems, API development, and scaling microservices. The recruiter gave me a rough idea of the upcoming rounds and told me to brush up on data structures and algorithms. I nodded confidently while quietly panicking inside. Still, it felt exciting to even get this far.
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Oh man, one question really stuck with me—it was during one of the technical interviews. The interviewer asked me to design a URL shortening service, like Bitly, but with a twist: it had to scale to billions of URLs and support custom aliases. At first, I was like, “Cool, I’ve seen this on system design prep lists,” but then they hit me with follow-ups about handling high availability, rate limiting, and eventual consistency across data centers. We dove into hashing strategies, database choices (SQL vs NoSQL), and cache layers using Redis. They asked how I’d prevent collisions and how I’d handle abuse—like people using the service for malicious links. It turned into a full-blown distributed systems discussion, and my brain was both thrilled and slightly melting. Easily the most fun (and most humbling) part of the interview.
Lots of technical questions and some skill tests. Took about two months but was in contact whole time. The process was smooth and controlled. The people were nice and I feel like they were looking for me to ask questions.
