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 through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Google in Jan 2013
Interview
They contacted me a few days after my application referred by a engineer in Google.
Two phone-screen interview were assigned for me, each was 45 min.
The first one I was asked some stuff in my project and asked to search a number in an ordered array. I used Binary search. The recruiter then asked me to write some test cases.
In the second one was asked to draw a tree and then connect each vertices from left to right in each level. I was using recursion. I screwed up and cannot finished it. the recruiter did not talk too much.
Got the rejection information after 3 days.
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Question 1
1, search a number in an ordered array.
2, draw a tree and then connect each vertices from left to right in each level.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Google
Interview
I went to a career fair and was contacted by Google to set up a phone interview via email. They sent me information to open up a google doc so I could write code while they could view it simultaneously. I believe I talked to 2 different people during the process.