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 online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Google in Jan 2018
Interview
First round is a coding test. One easy and one medium level Leetcode questions are asked.
Second round was two 45 minute phone interviews. The interviews were purely algorithmic coding questions which you had too code in a Google doc using any one of C++/Java/Python/Javascript.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
For a given string, check whether a string is "smashable". Smashable means whether a word can be reduced to a single character, which is in your predefined dictionary of words, and every intermediate word during the reduction should also lie in the dictionary.
For example -
Given: SPRINT
PRINT
PINT
PIT
IT
I
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Google in Mar 2015
Interview
Was contacted by hiring manager for phone interview and had two phone interviews with the developers are Google. The first phone interview was just a normal technical interview where you are on a google doc with interviewer and you write code to the problem he gives. The second interview was more focused on algorithm.
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Question 1
There is linked list of millions of node and you do not know the length of it. Write a function which will return a random number from the list.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Google in Nov 2017
Interview
2 Technical interviews back to back. First asks about a basic string reverse question, and a dynamic programming problem. Second interview is focus on a design problem. The overall interview questions are not too difficult. The only way to prepare it is to practice.