Google Software Engineer(Internship) interview questions
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I applied online. I interviewed at Google (Los Angeles, CA) in Aug 2020
Interview
Recruiter reached out after i had applied to the STEP program a year ago, and invited me to apply to the SWE internship for next summer. Extremely nice and kind people, they give you all the info you need and always get back to you. A TON of opportunities to get involved with the company
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Reddit users are pretty on point. The questions I got this year were basically the same topics that reddit users suggested I look over for the first round interview. One of them was string manipulation! So not incredibly hard since it was the first round but not a lot of time for 3 relatively intermediate questions
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Google (Tel Aviv) in Oct 2019
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The interview included two forty-five minutes technical interviews, back to back. 2 different interviewers. The questions were pretty difficult, but both interviewers were nice. I did not get an offer .
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DFS question - there is a board game with black and white players, have to find all the possible ways to move player
I applied online. I interviewed at Google in Sep 2019
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Two 45 minute interviews back to back; simple data structures (trees and string manipulation) questions. In the beginning we went over my resume, then I solved some questions, and then I had a chance to ask questions.
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construct a binary tree given the postorder and inorder traversals