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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Applied through online and interview process of pretty quick. Heard back in two weeks or so after applying and got an interview. Did two phone interviews. One went well but the second one did not go well.
The interviews were fine, i had one interviewer that I could not understand that much because of international calls. The problemes were in a medium difficulty or easier, just about arrays and string manipulaitons
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Question 1
Given an string with just chars A, L, O, that represents the assistance of an student to its class, if the student is (A)bsence 2 times, or (L)ate 3 times on a row, return false, else true
I applied online. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Google (Toronto, ON) in Jun 2018
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Starts with coding challenge, then two phone interviews, and then 2 team matching interview. The coding challenge had one hard question and one very easy one. They will always follow up with phone screen and decide on the candidate after that according to the recruiter
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Question 1
Coding challenge had a dynamic programming problem.