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.
Common stages of the interview process at Google as a Software Engineer Internship according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 100%
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Question 1
1 round of HR phone call interview (30 minutes)
2 rounds of leetcode (medium/ medium+) (45 minutes * 2)
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Google (Bengaluru) in Jul 2023
Interview
First Round : Coding test of one hour. Graphs, DP, Trees main topics that were asked. Questions were of medium and hard difficultly level. There was a question bank of 5 questions from which everyone was getting 2 questions to solve within 1 hour.
2. I was shortlisted for Round 1 of interview. 45 min technical round. One question was asked which was solved using priority queues. Try to achieve solving 2 medium difficulty questions within 45 min.
3. Shortlisted for round 2, final round. The interviewer asked a DP question, and then a question based on DFS algorithm. Last 5 mins was on basic HR questions like why you want to join the company, what things you expect, etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Suppose you are given an array of length 3 which contains the value that you acquire when you visit 3 cities. On a day, you can either remain within the same city or travel to another city. You can start with any city. Determine the maximum value which can be acquired by the person at the end of 30 days.
2. Find the number of contiguous islands in a matrix where land is represented by 1 and water is represented by 0.
Step 1: CV shortlisting
I applied off campus and my CV got shortlisted then I got an mail confirming a small personal interview round.
Step 2: Personal Interview
In this round, I was asked why I had applied for this position, some behavioural questions and why I am a good fit
Step 3: Technical Interview
2 questions
one on BST and second one was on queue and hashing
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