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Updated Feb 10, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Software Engineer at Google
Posted Jan 31, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 in Berkeley, CA (took a day)
It was an on-campus interview with Google, and it was quite pleasant. I went in to the interview place, and the matched me up with two different interviewers. I had nice conversations with both interviewers. The questions were also not too difficult, but being my first real technical interview, I had no idea what to expect :(... But if you do your preparation and stay relaxed, you should be able to do fine
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Development Engineer at Google
Posted Feb 5, 2012
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 (took 1 week)
I earned my phone interview one week after I posted my resume for a particular job in youtube. First I received a 5-7 minutes phone call from HR, it was just about usual stuff, what I am doing currently and what I have done in the past. Then I scheduled with their HR person a 45 minute technical interview. The interviewer told me he is working in youtube. After 5 minutes of intro stuff about my previous work, he asked me to start writing on the shared doc. The problem he posed to me was not usual algorithm and data structure stuff. I found it really very hard, first to understand and then after few more minutes of his explanation, I still had little clue. I don't know if he was unable to make me understand or my brain was just blocked.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer at Google
Posted Feb 5, 2012
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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 Jan 2012 in New York, NY (took 2+ weeks)
I got an email from a recruiter on LinkedIn. I accepted the request from the recruiter. Then the recruiter setup the 45 min phone interview with one of the google engineers which consisted of several questions pertaining to hashing, sorting and the end I needed to write a piece of code to implement one of the algorithms.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer at Google
Posted Feb 5, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 (took a day)
two 45min phone interviews
all about technology, algorithm, data structure
1. Compare HashTable and Binary Tree(pros and cons, why use binary tree in some place, the time complexity of insert, delete of hashtable and binarytree)
2. favorite sorting algorithm and why, advantages
3. find the longest prefix
abcde
abf
abdf
4. last internship
5. dictionary = [hello, world, top, pot, nice], source = [opt] => output = [top, opt]
First sort every element in the dictionary and source, then compare.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Developer at Google
Posted Feb 3, 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 Jan 2012 (took 4+ weeks)
I got the response from Google one week after I submitted an online application. Then I scheduled two one-hour phone interviews. I did not do well in the phone interviews. Anyhow, I got the onsite and flew to Seattle. The google Seattle office is so so small. I wanted to work at the headquarter. But I applied at a wrong time. No opening at the headquarter then. I so regret that.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Software Engineer at Google
Posted Feb 3, 2012
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4.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in New York, NY (took a day)
asked technical question about algorithm . both sorting. the interviewer didn't give any hints about the question. the first interviewer called me 3 hours before the schedule, probably because of time difference. asked question about the project I have done
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Software Engineer at Google
Posted Feb 3, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 (took a day)
two phone calls. each lasts 45 minutes.
they asked my background written on the resume, the projects in my undergraduate.
also, they asked algorithm puzzles about graph theory, string processing.
they also tested my knowledge in C++. They asked me to write a bunch of lines of code to process a simple algorithm.
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Software Engineer at Google
Posted Jan 28, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 (took a day)
Two back to back interviews. Applied through google website
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer at Google
Posted Feb 2, 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 Oct 2011 (took a day)
Two back-to-back 45-minute technical phone interviews. Each takes 45 minutes.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Senior Manager at Google
Posted Feb 1, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2010 (took 10 months)
Very long....everyone had to have a say and nobody could decide....
Negotiation Details
Easy
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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