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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Google is remarkably quick at getting back to applicants when applying through directly on Google's employment opportunities page. I received an email two days after submitting my resume and was asked to schedule two back to back 45 minute interviews the following week. Each interview was technical in nature and I was asked to solve two coding questions by typing code into a shared Google document with my interviewer. After asking questions and coding my solutions, the interviewer and I went over my solution and discussed aspects of it such as the running time, security and readability of the code.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Google (San Francisco, CA) in Nov 2018
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Got referral from a Google employee, finished an online code challenge, got email from recruiters to schedule 2 phone interviews.
The interviewers called right on time, and asked to open the Google doc to code. The interviewer describe the question and gave examples, then ask you to think out loudly(meaning talk what you are thinking), then I proposed my solution, but the interviewer would ask you to increase the time or space efficiency. I didn't get enough time to write down my code.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Google in Jan 2019
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After I applied for the position, I first received a coding challenge in about one month. Then, after three weeks, an HR contacted me and helped me schedule two back-to-back phone interviews, each lasted for 45mins. In the day after the b2b interview, I got an email from my HR telling me to schedule one additional 45min phone interview. The interviewers are very patient and helpful, making me feel good about Google.
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Question 1
For the phone interviews, the first round was about completing an iterator interface. The second round was to calculate the number of trailing zeros after multiplying a group of integers. The third round was to find if a node in a graph is GUARANTEED to reach to the success node.