Recently, while searching a keyword “headless chrome” on Google I got an unusual pop-up on my window, with a message:

Curious developers are known to seek interesting problems. Solve one from Google?

I was surprised to see Google sending me a challenge to solve and I accepted it immediately! Clicking on “I want to play” landed me on Google’s Foobar page.

It was Google Foobar Challenge!

What exactly is Google Foobar Challenge?

Google Foobar challenge is a secret hiring process by the company to recruit top programmers and developers around the world. And it is known that several developers at Google are hired by this process.

The challenge consists of** five levels** with a total of nine questions, with the level of difficulty increasing at each level.

What to do after getting the challenge?

After selecting “I want to play” option you land on Foobar’s website which has a Unix-like shell interface, including some standard Unix commands like help, cd, ls, cat and etcetera.

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