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 71.4% 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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Standard interviews with leetcode easy/medium problems. After that team matching where you get contacted by managers from different teams and talk about your experience and interests. If both you and manager agree to work together - the offer is given out
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I don't remember exact problems, but similar to google leetcode list
2 technical rounds for 2month internship. No projects subject are asked only dsa questions in both rounds. Medium level questions, requires real problem solving, competitive programming practice. And asked to optimise the problem to O(logn) complexity
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2 DSA questions, one is related to prefix sum and other bst
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 9 months. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Aug 2023
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Was invited year and a half before the internship summer to join. They applied for me. I did an OA, followed by 2 45 minute interviews. Both interviews were technical and back to back.