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Updated May 4, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Mar 2012 (took 1+ week)

I got call from staffing agency. They commuincated me on about the latest update.

Interview Questions

Why you want to join Google?

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Give eaxmple how you can be a team player?

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Negotiation Details

It was good. people was ready to hear you.

Other Details

I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Background Check.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jun 2010 (took 3 weeks)

Basic phone screen.

Interview Questions

Tell me about yourself.

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Other Details

I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jan 2012 (took 2 months)

got the 1st round interview after 1 month submitted cv. The interviewee is very nice very helpful and tells me a lots about his work and his role in Google. He asked two questions. One is open ended another is a question about t-test.

Interview Questions

I have a coin, I tossed 10 times and I want to test if the coin is fair.

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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jan 2011 in Mountain View, CA (took 2+ months)

I was referred through my neighbor. I had a phone screen, and was passed on to an in-person interview, which consisted of market-sizing and brain teaser questions. I believe I started the process in November. I had the phone interview in December.

I was scheduled for an in-person interview in January. I met with 5 employees. I was given one particularly tough consulting-type question. I didn't get any feedback on it, except that if I thought of a better answer, I should email this employee my new answer. Of course I did this, but I didn't get confirmation that it was received.

Later that week, I heard that I did not get the job. The recruiter offered to recommend me to other positions at Google, which she did, but those never got past the phone interview stage.

Interview Questions

I signed a confidentiality agreement.

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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.

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5.0

Very Difficult Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Dec 2009 (took 4 weeks)

The interview process includes skill test and one on one HR interview and some written test. there was an online test also for the interview.

Interview Questions

there was an odd ball in the 8 balls you have to find out the odd ball with 2 weighs

Answer Question

Why man holes are in round shape?

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Negotiation Details

It was good

Other Details

I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Background Check, a Skills Test, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a 1:1 Interview.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jan 2011 (took a day)

Did not receive those tricky questions require creativity or imagination. The interviewer focused on quantitative skills and statistical knowledge.

Interview Questions

What kind of analyses would you conduct for a business problem like this?

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Other Details

The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Dec 2010 (took 3 weeks)

Had two phone interviews and then a set of five on-site interviews. The phone interviews were pretty straightforward--one from the recruiter and another from a potential peer, which assessed if my basic qualifications matched the job requirements. Feedback at the end of each call was immediately given, which was nice and reassuring.

The onsite interviews were basically scheduled back-to-back with 5 separate interviewers, 30 minutes each, and with one break in-between. Some of the interviewers were at remote offices, so I had needed to speak to those interviewers via video conferencing.

On most of the phone and on-site interviews, the interviewers seemed a bit rushed with their 30-minute time limits. I didn't feel like I had much time to ask questions of my own, but the interviewers were generally polite in responding to my questions even though the sessions ran beyond the allocated 30-minutes each.

All the interviewers appeared to be well prepared and trained for the recruiting process--each knew their specific role on the recruiting team. The hiring process appears to be very well organized. Everyone I had contacted were professional and generally warm, but seemed also rushed for time. Ultimately, the recruiter telephoned me several days later to tell me the outcome.

Interview Questions

What do you think would be the part of the job that you think you might like the least?

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2.0

Easy Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jun 2010 in Mountain View, CA (took a day)

Got a call from a recruiter to discuss an analyst position. Mainly just talked about my experiences. The call seemed to go well and the recruiter said he'd pass along my resume to the team to move the process forward, but I got an email rejection a couple weeks later.

Interview Questions

Describe your past work experiences.

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Other Details

I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed May 2008 (took a day)

I took a phone skills test with Google for a Network Analyst position. It consisted of questions about very specific algorithm complexities (such as certain search methods) as well as simple questions about pointers, or common network protocols. Additionally, there was a question similar to what you'd see on an algorithms class final exam, which required knowledge of a specific tool for quickly accessing a large amount of data. General knowledge will not help solve the skill test questions; they were VERY specific!

The person I spoke with was very friendly and the test was enjoyable even though it was challenging.

I didn't like the that most of the questions were just on book knowledge. I figured Google would care more about innovative ideas and thinking out of the box.

Interview Questions

What is the worst-case complexity of mergesort?

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Other Details

I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Skills Test.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jun 2010 in Palo Alto, CA (took a day)

I was interviewed after being contacted by a Google Recruiter. Very excited and got a a great overview of the entire process from the Recruiter, but things went south very quickly. My resume was "great" according to the hiring manager and I had 6 years of very relevant experience. Case questions were pretty straightforward, estimations, prioritize, etc.

The interview went south when asked about my undergrad GPA. I never went to class, but have risen quickly in my professional career and have hard skills to show it. Unfortunate that GPA is still a hiring bar to jump over even 6 years out.