Google Software Engineer Internship interview questions
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Software Engineer Internship applicants have rated the interview process at Google with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 80% positive. To compare, the company-average is 71.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer Internship roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 5 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Google overall takes an average of 43 days.
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Back to back coding interviews, 45 minutes each. One was a easy level coding question, reading records of users with messages, counting words in messages and outputting the K users with maximum words.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Jan 2019
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The interview was a technical phone interview in Python. They gave me a simple programming problem, then added layers of complexity once I solved a given stage. Overall the problems were not difficult and could be solved with rudimentary knowledge of , however, as an undergrad the problems given to me could have been easier than average.
I applied online. The process took 8 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Tel Aviv-Yafo) in Oct 2018
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I had one recruiter talking to me, they set an interview, the interview included two intervieas(each one with a difrent interviewer). each takes forty five minutes, includes one or two programming questions.