Google Software Engineer(Internship) interview questions
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Software Engineer(Internship) applicants have rated the interview process at Google with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 68.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Google in Nov 2016
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I applied through a referral. I applied for the US and Europe at the same time period and they asked me to choose one of them. I had a recruiter, she called me many times (3 I believe), to check on me and clarify all the processes. I had two phone interviews back to back, and after a couple of weeks, they requested a third one. Then the recruiter said I was approved to go into the table where they take the final decision, and finally, I was told I was rejected.
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Question 1
Build a crawler (it was incremental, so at first build, a simple crawler and then they would go deeper on fundamentals), also a dynamic programming question about the number of ways you can paint a fence, according to certain rules.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 8 weeks. I interviewed at Google in Dec 2018
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The Interviewer insisted on asking me a question in a programming language I didn't learn yet, although I said my preferred language before.
He was not nice at all
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Google (Chicago, IL) in May 2019
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2 Phone Calls. Each of those phone calls are 45 min interview. You will be expected to code in the language you choose, and they are most likely to be back to back interview.