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Updated Feb 12, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Engineering at Google
Posted Feb 12, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 (took 2 months)
Pretty average but far too much delay to be taken serious.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Engineering at Google
Posted Oct 20, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2010 in San Jose, CA (took 2 weeks)
After recruiter's phone call with general organizational questions, I had short technical phone interview.
Interviewer was late for 10 minutes, thus we talked only 30-35 min. For this time he was able to ask me not very much: some of my previous experience, most difficult bug I've faced recently, and one technical question with coding in shared doc. After that he let me to ask him something about google. He answered one question and finished interview, so I had no change to fund out everything I planned. Also I had a feeling, the guy was not interested to be there, coz he was not leading me through resolution process and talked very little. Also his communication skills could be better - I hardly understood his questions in Indian English and asked to repeat several times. Google should sent better skilled and more open English speakers to interview, IMHO.
I successfully resolved technical coding question in two different ways (time and memory efficient) with commenting my resolution thoughts, but have got negative response from recruiter in 1 week.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Engineering at Google
Posted Sep 6, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 (took a day)
Overall a fairly strenuous interview process - likely because you know you're interviewing at Google. Preparation for the initial phone interview is key to making it onsite. The onsite interview lasted all day and interviewed with 5 different people. Each asked similar questions but each also had their own unique questions depending on their role. The key is preparing well, confident with your answers but not rehearsed. And don't wear a suit - you'd be really out of place. I wore a shirt, slacks, and tie and that was plenty. The interviews went very well. I was narrowed to the final 5 people and I didn't get selected.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Engineer at Google
Posted Aug 9, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2011 in Santa Monica, CA (took 1 week)
I was approached by a Google recruiter based on my LinkedIn profile. After an initial phone conversation to assess me and my proclivities, they arranged a couple of interviews. The interview in Santa Monica consisted of an in-person interview with the hiring manager and lasted for almost 2 hours. The guy was intelligent and sincere. He tested my knowledge, which was adequate for the position. Unfortunately, the position was not interesting enough for me, and we agreed that it wasn't a good fit. Very pleasant experience, exciting company, and I hope there are other departments that would be a better fit.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Engineering at Google
Posted Jun 22, 2011
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 (took a day)
I received phone from Google's HQ. He mentioned that he found my resume in google's recruitment system and would like to offer some positions. He mentioned some positions such as SRE, Software Engineering, Linux Sysadmin, etc in US, Europe, and Australia. Due to my current restriction I asked him if these positions available in Tokyo office?. He can not answer and he will discuss and search with his colleagues. He will contact me again.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Background Check.
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Engineering at Google
Posted May 5, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 (took 2 weeks)
After the recruiter contact, two phone interviews follow. The questions asked are really very basic and not appropriate for the job level (seems they have a fixed set of Qs for all levels). Then the questions get into details of packets and other tiny details. Looking for you to memorise details. Very funny but I was no impressed.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Engineering at Google
Posted May 10, 2011 — 0 of 2 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2009 in Mountain View, CA (took a day)
very positive. Programming and brain teasers questions.
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very smooth and pleasant
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Engineer at Google
Posted Mar 25, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in Atlanta, GA (took 3 weeks)
got a phone interview for a new grad position from Google. recruiter mailed me to setup an interview. she asked me to choose a week and asked me for the best time to call in that week. interviewer was from Google, NY. He called on time and was friendly. So he asked me about my previous projects and soon. After 5 min of that, he jumped into the questions. he asked me to open the Google docs. then he asked me which language i was comfortable with, i was good at java, so told him that. So he asked me a question involving algorithms then gave me a problem to solve. it was a trick question. i failed to recognize it and misunderstood the question completely. i solved the question for what i understood. he didn't say whether it was wrong, and asked me to write the code for my solution. i wrote the java code. he wanted me to optimize it. i did it. finally i asked some random questions about his work and Google. when interview was done, i had a good feeling about my answer. later i was discussing it with my friend, that's when it strike me, the answer was so so so simple. i over did it. so all hopes were done with after that. one week later, they told me i am not good enough.
i think, it was a pretty good experience over all. i was nervous, this was my first interview ever and that may be the reason i wasn't able to think straight.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Engineer at Google
Posted Jan 17, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2010 (took 2 weeks)
Got the job through college career website. There were two back to back interviews. The general format of the interview was that we were given a data structure based question. You had to suggest mukltiple solutions and finally state the most efficient solution of the set of answers. Ultimately the algorithm needed to be coded up. You could choose any programming language of preference.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Engineer at Google
Posted Dec 15, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2010 (took 2 months)
interview process (overall) was great, but some engineers made some picky and meaningless questions. hiring process takes a long time, I spent 2 months and they told me that I was on halfway. They are very interested on your GPA by asking and also requesting to send transcript and certificates.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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