Google Software Engineer(Internship) interview questions
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google
Interview
I got an email from my recruiter, scheduled the technical interviews in the next two weeks, and had two interviews over the course of three days. The second interview was much more difficult than the first, but both were pretty difficult.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Oct 2017
Interview
Two interviews over the phone after having a brief talk with the recruiter. The most annoying part is the host matching that can take a lot of time, fortunately it was fast this time but for other interns it took a lot of time.
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Queries are: add an interval and return the length of the union of all intervals.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google (New York, NY) in Dec 2017
Interview
Two rounds of phone interview in a row. 30min each. The questions are regular. You'll probable find it familiar if you practice enough in LeetCode. Interviewers are very friendly and provided good guidance.
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Question 1
Tell me about what you've learned on software engineering class.