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% 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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Three one-hour technical interviews, covering classic algorithm questions, with time at the end to ask them questions. They responded after a few weeks and proceeded to host matching. That took another few weeks.
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Edit distance, with costs depending on element inserted / removed.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google
Interview
I got an email from my recruiter, scheduled the technical interviews in the next two weeks, and had two interviews over the course of three days. The second interview was much more difficult than the first, but both were pretty difficult.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Oct 2017
Interview
Two interviews over the phone after having a brief talk with the recruiter. The most annoying part is the host matching that can take a lot of time, fortunately it was fast this time but for other interns it took a lot of time.
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Queries are: add an interval and return the length of the union of all intervals.