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Coding, Networking, and a Distributed Rate Limiter

GoogleSite Reliability Engineer · Onsite · Sep 2025

I interviewed for a Google SRE position a few days ago. The overall difficulty wasn't especially algorithm-heavy — it leaned more toward system design, real-world troubleshooting, and coding. Interview content Coding (LeetCode style) They asked a string-processing question: given a log file where each line is "timestamp, user, action," count the number of sessions per user. It was a variant of "g…

Shared by a candidate · reported Sep 2025. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.