Google Software Engineer - Internship interview questions
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Software Engineer - Internship applicants have rated the interview process at Google with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 61.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer - Internship roles take an average of 105 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Google overall takes an average of 44 days.
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I applied online. I interviewed at Google in Jun 2017
Interview
There are two sessions of 45 minutes each with two different software engineers. The interviewers describe the problem on shared Google doc and ask for the optimum solutions first before you proceed for the brute-force solution. Then the interviewer asks for the complexity of the algorithm that you are going to design. And finally the best solution proceed with coding.
I applied online. I interviewed at Google in Jan 2017
Interview
Applied online and completed the programming assignment. A recuriter sent an email to schedule for the interviews, Then, Had 2 interviews each of 45 mins . 1st interview was bad. 2nd was good.
I applied online. I interviewed at Google (New York, NY) in Jan 2016
Interview
It wasnt difficult but pretty long. They asked me for an interview after I applied online and then I had to prepare for 2 back to back phone interviews. It was the engineering practicum and I applied pretty late around November. Which is probably a big reason why its was harder to get into because they already filled a lot of slots.
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Question 1
Explain a time you worked on a project, and how did you attack the biggest problem for it.