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 61.3% 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.
Common stages of the interview process at Google as a Software Engineer - Internship according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
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I applied online. I interviewed at Google in Sep 2019
Interview
Two 45 minute interviews back to back; simple data structures (trees and string manipulation) questions. In the beginning we went over my resume, then I solved some questions, and then I had a chance to ask questions.
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Question 1
construct a binary tree given the postorder and inorder traversals
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Google
Interview
Interviewers were very good and helpful.
1-2 DSA questions were asked and they were of average difficulty. The difficulty increased as time passes by and same question had multiple parts of varying toughness
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Question 1
Q) Given and array, find the maximum subarray sum having first and last element of the subarray equal
There were screening round, and multiple behavioral and technical interview rounds. Applied. through Google Carriers and got the email with screening test URL. The screening round was composed with two programming questions.
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Basic programming questions can be solved using BFS.