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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I applied online. I interviewed at Google in Dec 2017
Interview
There were total 2 phone interviews for the first round. Each round containing one technical question. First question was about tree and dfs. Second question was about LinkedList. Both questions were broad in nature so to get to the solution , I had to ask many questions to the interviewer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about yourself. Directly went to the question. It was based on tree traversal.
I applied online. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Google (Los Angeles, CA)
Interview
3 phone interviews, Recruiter remains in contact, the First interviewer asked a difficult question on DFS. next was supposed to be a back to back interview but it was postponed to two weeks later. got selected for the final coding round. The interview went very well and I answered all the questions. But at last they rejected me
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
DFS, modification of 4sum, Simple tree question, string manipulation
I applied online. The process took 5 months. I interviewed at Google (Sioux Falls, SD) in Feb 2015
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It was a pretty interesting process, I didn't belive how much time it took them to get back to me since I had applied and then over a few months later they came back and said that it was going to take more time but then eventually it was done and I ahd tht interview and it was aite