Google Software Engineer Internship interview questions
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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Google in Dec 2020
Interview
You can look up how this goes on YouTube. You get an online assessment with two problems, and if you pass you do two more problems over the phone while sharing a code editor. That's how far I got. I thought both interviewers were somewhat rude, especially the second one from NY. The first guy called me from Mountain View. For the latter, she seemed pretty condescending throughout the technical interview session. This all took place on Dec 2020 if anyone from google is wondering.
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Question 1
First one was about some kind of hash map problem and the second one was about a graph problem.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in May 2020
Interview
HR Recruiter contacted first, had a phone call discussing timelines and availability.
2 rounds of coding interviews (done over Google Docs).
After 2 interviews, heard back from the recruiter that I had moved to the team matching stage. They scheduled calls with 2 different hiring managers.
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The questions are easy-medium Leetcode level: they were modified versions of standard problems.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Google
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1 HR phone call
2 online technical interview (using google meet)
each has 45 minutes to solve 1~3 data structure or algorithm problem
all are classic leetcode problems
use google doc to code