Google Associate Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details – They set up an interview, which they explained was a huge process. There are two phone interviews, on-site interviews, an essay, and then a final interview with the head of Product development.

They don't give feedback either, so it's really difficult to figure out exactly how you did in the interview. All in all though, I had a pleasant time.

Interview Details – The recruiter seemed nice during my communications with her and suggested she had some positions open. She then referred me to apply for a position that did not overlap with my skill set at all. The person I interviewed with was not professional. Overall it was not a great experience.

Interview Details – Was contacted by a recruiting firm regarding a contract position. Standard interview, none of the hard/tricky questions that others had experienced and posted about on the web. Questions were very straight forward and typical.

Interview Details – This ended up being a full out consulting style case interview, but I was really not prepared for that sort of conversation.
They acted as though I would be lucky to even be considered for the job, and I did not feel I was able to show my skills adequately.
I was not given adequate time to explain what I would be able to offer the company.
All in all, it felt as though I was not fully qualified for the job, which is possible coming right out of college.
But I did not feel that the interview process was geared to make me want to work there, instead it was all about whether Google felt I was acceptable for them.

Interview Details – I was matched up with a recruiter who was extremely helpful - emailing me interview tips and common questions, telling me what to highlight on my resume and important things to mention. She called me before both phone interviews I had to prep me. The first phone interview I had was more of a screening and was very routine; the second interview was much more elaborate and intense. My recruiter also followed up and called me to tell me that they'd gone with another candidate, which is a courtesy many companies don't extend.

Interview Details – A recruiter reached out to me via LinkedIn and we set up a phone screening interview. After my phone interview I was given a writing assignment. Shortly after turning in my assignment, I was contacted again to schedule an in-person interview at the Google campus. I was interviewed by two people, the first was a more casual interview in the Cafe, followed by a more formal interview. The first interview went fine, it felt more like a casual, 2-way conversation than an interview and in that short period of time I got a general sense of the culture and environment. My interviewer for the second part of the interview was very late, and I felt that my formal interview was very rushed.

Interview Details – First round interview was a phone interview with a Google PM, he asked a few design questions, very broad and not so difficult. I think it was more to get a feel for how creative you can be. The interview was really short, probably less than 40 minutes. I didn't expect a call back.

Surprised when I did hear back 2 weeks later with an invitation to on campus interview. They flew a bunch of us in and even arranged a scavenger hunt for us around SF. The actual interview day was long, and consisted of 4-5 one on one interviews with existing APMs. Each of them are responsible for one "area", such as technical, design or both. The design questions often have to do with how to improve an existing product or how to design a consumer product from scratch. Since Google is a web-based company all the designs had to do with websites or mobile apps. Overall, there wasn't any too difficult, but it's hard to think on the spot sometimes.

The culture is great, you can tell everyone is super smart there and you'd be able to extract a lot out of the experience.

Interview Details – Multiple interviews over a few weeks. Everyone was very nice throughout the process, and the recruiter was helpful in answering all questions. On-site interview was with three different managers. The "Googliness" of the New York office is very in-your-face.

Interview Details – After two phone interviews, I was invited to Mountain View where I had 4 interviews during one day that all were asking me for problem solving (I am trying to find a pot of gold in the middle of the jungle in Brazil, how can I get there the cheapest way possible), etc.

Offices were beautiful, the lunch was absolutely fantastic.