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BQ, ML Domain, and a Mahjong-Winning-Hand Coding Question

GoogleSoftware Engineer · New Grad · Onsite · Mar 2026

Timeline: 2025/12/23: HR reached out and asked me to send my latest transcript. 2026/01/05: Another HR emailed to set up a brief chat. 2026/01/14: HR chat — mainly asked about my research area and explained the interview format. They said it's basically one BQ round plus three coding rounds, or one BQ round plus one ML domain round plus two coding rounds, split into two big loops. I chose one BQ…

Shared by a candidate · reported Mar 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.