Senior Developer applicants have rated the interview process at Google with 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 61% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Developer roles take an average of 60 days to get hired, when considering 2 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 Senior Developer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 25%
Other: 25%
One on one interview: 25%
Skills test: 25%
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Recruiter reached out to me
Multiple phone screens
Second phone call was with a bad engineer. They decided to reject me and did the interview to prove I am not a good fit, because from the beginning they lead the interview towards reject, with intimidating silly questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Filter Easy-Medium level questions on Leetcode, both phone interview questions were from there. They ask single question in one phone interview.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Google in Aug 2021
Interview
I applied online and then emailed back and forth with a recruiter where I needed to fill out a form about my specific experiences. Then I got to the next round where I had a 1:1 coding challenge.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Given a binary tree of integer values, implement a function to check if the tree is a symmetric tree.
Given a 2-d matrix consisting of 0's and 1's, implement a function to return the sum of perimeters of all the subfigures that contain only 1's in the matrix.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Google
Interview
The interview was done via Google Hangouts, which usually has a quite poor call quality. It was not a surprise that the call quality during the interview was very bad. That was the main obstacle and made the interview unmanageable.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What are the advantages and disadvantages of the merge sort algorithm?