I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Jan 2010
Interview
A Google research scientist got my resume, and circulated it. Then, I was contacted by the company to set up a phone interview. After a 45 min phone interview, I was invited to do an on-site interview. It consisted of a presentation together with 6 of 1:1 interviews. The 1:1 interviews consisted of puzzle questions, my thoughts about some research problems, and some high-level questions, like where I see the field should go in five years.
3 technical interview and 1 behavioral interview. There was 1 leet code and two ml interviews. I had a recruiter call before the interview where they shared the details of the interviews.
I applied online. I interviewed at Google (Seattle, WA) in Aug 2025
Interview
Coding interviews, research interviews, job talks, and behavioral interviews. The behavioral interviews were standard, designed to assess cultural fit, teamwork, and professional conduct. The coding assessments followed the standard LeetCode style, focusing on problem-solving and algorithmic thinking on whiteboard. Interviews are quite professional and warm. They asked questions based on my research.
First some basic introduction about yourself, and from each topic or research direction, you are asked more details. Finally they asked more about LLMs. And later ask you to code on LLM and explain what is transformer
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
what is the name of the procedure from a work to a vector?