Recruiter contacted me on my old school email, said he had me resume on file from when I interviewed a couple of years ago. I talked with the recruiter very briefly over the phone. He described the role and asked me if it was something I would be interested in, seemed like a very heavy software coding role. I said it was, and then he asked for me to send an updated resume and he would setup the phone interview. Phone interview was setup for a week away. Interviewer called on a very poor phone line, and was probably on speaker phone. Luckily we moved to the google doc that was setup for the interview and when I could not understand the interviewer he would type the info on the doc. The interview was pretty straight forward.The interviewer asked three questions, two dealing with arrays, and one dealing with a linked list. I struggled a bit through the first question. I worked through it, and the recruiter asked the typical solution time complexity questions, and how can you make it faster, etc. Question 2 I struggled for about 5 minutes to come up with a solution. I was explaining to the interviewer my thought process as I was trying to come up with a way to solve the problem, but that just confused him and he asked if I would just code it, but I wasn't coding it because I had no ideas yet on how to solve the problem. :) After about another minute I came up with a solution. I started coding it and once the interviewer saw that once I had come up with a solution and was able to code it without a hitch he asked me to move onto another question. This was the linked list question, and I knew a solution right away and coded it without any issues. Somewhere in there he asked me "Do you have experience designing backend databases?" This is more of a question I would expect for a DBA role, not a typical Software engineer interview question. Anyway I answered him, and that was pretty much the end of the interview. He asked me if I had any questions and I did, and he gave a good answer back... This was my second interview with Google. The first one was a disaster, so I was pretty pleased with the outcome of this interview. I struggled a bit, but was able to answer the questions. Two weeks later I emailed the recruiter and asked if he had heard any results from the interview. He set up a time to talk and when he called he told me that I had done well in the interview but that they found another candidate better suited for the position. Overall a pretty good experience.