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. I interviewed at Google in Jan 2019
Interview
Applied through the careers site. Got a coding round at first. Then a survey. Was contacted by a technical recruiter after 10 days to schedule a phone interview. There were two back to back 45 min phone interviews. Overall the process was smooth.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2+ months. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Sep 2018
Interview
— Drop in résumé (preferably at live event, or it will never get read)
— Two coding interview calls with engineers back-to-back, then reject or move on
— “Project Search” phase where they put your resume in an internal database and after 6-8 weeks someone might contact you or not
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
All purely technical, data structures questions; nothing behavioural
I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Google in Feb 2019
Interview
The interview process lasted for around 4-6 weeks. I applied through the Google careers website and was shortlisted for the first round. The first round had two coding questions. I cleared this round and was selected was the next round. The second round involved two technical interviews for 45 minutes each. I was asked to code one program in each round. The result was declared in two weeks after the interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was asked about analyzing the time complexity for a program after coding it