Ship production LLM-powered features for Google's Commerce/Shopping platform serving over a billion shopping queries a day

Google Commerce is hiring a software engineer to design, build, test, and deploy software for the shopping experiences that serve over a billion queries a day, spanning inspiration through checkout. The JD explicitly requires production experience deploying LLM-based systems and ML/Generative AI exposure, layered on Google's standard 2-year SWE bar - expect Google's typical coding + system design + googleyness/leadership loop.

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Likely format

Google's well-known hiring process typically includes a phone screen with coding, followed by an onsite loop of coding, system design/architecture, and Googleyness/leadership interviews.

What this interview tests

Data structures & algorithms (Google's standard coding bar)
Production experience deploying LLM-based systems; ML/Generative AI quality evaluation
System design for high-traffic consumer commerce features (search, recommendations, checkout)
Code review practices and design-review leadership
Debugging/triaging production issues across hardware, network, and service layers