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.

i did several mock interviews, a technical screen, and the final round which was three technical interviews and a behavioral. i set the timeline for the whole process, personally it took four months but you can go faster if you want