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Updated Feb 10, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Inside Sales Manager - MBA Intern at Google
Posted Jan 25, 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 Mar 2011 (took 4+ weeks)
Initial contact asked for additional information: GMAT Scores, SAT Scores, etc... Next was a phone interview that was very informal and conversation. Final interview was pretty intense. It was with three separate individuals asking various sales and people management questions. Definitely wish I knew Google's Enterprise business better.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Community Manager at Google
Posted Jan 25, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 (took 2 days)
A recruiter contacted me for this position and I submitted my resume. Had a phone interview with the hiring manager, and they arranged for a follow-up phone interview with team members. I asked what the following steps were after, and the team member said they weren't sure and would get back to me. I waited two weeks without hearing anything and contacted the recruiter, who told me they hired someone else.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Test Engineer at Google
Posted Jan 24, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 (took 2 weeks)
1 phone call from recruiter and 45 minute technical interview. The position did not match my background or skills at all the technical interview was confused as to why the recruiter set me up for his team. He was also condescending and said everyone in his team had 10+ years experience and that he does "very intense things" ?!
study linked lists. The other questions were algorithm "how would you solve this".
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Skills Test.
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Software Engineer II at Google
Posted Jan 24, 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 1+ week)
I applied online and got a mail saying they were interested in my profile and sent me details regarding filling an application form. It was basically to determine my areas of interest and my area of expertise. After this the HR sent me a mail asking for a convenient time for scheduling a phone interview. Had 2 back to back interviews. Interviewer was friendly.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Online Media Associate at Google
Posted Jan 24, 2012
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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 May 2011 in Wroclaw (Poland) (took 5 weeks)
I started the application just to try
i sent CV and Cover letter
They got back to me in 3 weeks asking to set a phone interview
I did and passed the phone interview
they asked to set a second phone interview
I did and passéd the second job interview
they asked me to come to poland
I went there for an interview, they paid flight and hotel
i did 4 interviews in a row. 45 min each. with two future colleagues / managers
I went back home
Got negative reply
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineering Intern at Google
Posted Jan 24, 2012
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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 2011 (took a day)
Initially fit screening that is basically a hello. Then a 2-part phone interview by two interviewers who were both very nice. However, just answering all the questions correctly does not mean you pass. Questions range from easy to medium-difficulty (started with graph theory, ended with Prims)
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer at Google
Posted Jan 23, 2012 — 1 of 2 people found this helpful
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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 Jan 2012 in Los Angeles, CA (took a day)
Recruiter contacted with me via linked in. Then scheduled phone interview after a couple of weeks. The phone interview was conducted well, that was what I felt. Asked several questions from math to coding detail. Answered all question well. But did not get offer. Checked with recruiter, was told she can not share with me regarding the result.
I feel they are already pre-determined if they want you or not based on the school you graduated. If you did not graduate from decent school, forget about it. It is wasting of time.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Account Strategist at Google
Posted Jan 21, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2010 in Dublin, County Dublin (Ireland) (took a day)
There have been 4 interviews onsite and 2 via phone. Usually they ask questions about leadership experience, role related knowledge and experience, your personality and hobbies and of course they do a lot of brain teaser.
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When you´re graduate there is no room for negotiations. Otherwise I would say they are generally open for negotiations
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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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Linked In at Google
Posted Jan 21, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 in Mountain View, CA (took 1+ week)
They asked general questions, nothing related to what was on my resume, file merging question and I felt they were looking for large data set file merging, while I work with in-memory data structures.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Graduate Software Engineer at Google
Posted Jan 20, 2012
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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 Oct 2011 in Munich (Germany) (took 4+ weeks)
First of all, I want to say that, beside I didn't get an offer, I liked the experience of interviewing with Google.
The people that spoke to me on the phone were nice and helpful to the extent they could be and I could hear they tried to make me feel as confortable as possible.
Now, to the interview process itself.
I applied online to various Graduate Positions as Software Engineer and a recruiter from Munich contacted me. I then had a phone screening with her during which she would just test if I knew anything about programming and that of course went well.
Then, scheduled for a couple of weeks later, the first phone interview. I spoke with an engineer in Zurich and he asked me some Java theories questions; after I answered most of them correctly, he asked me to code a problem for him: he shared a google doc and told me to solve a problem.
The problem was pretty straightforward, but we had some problem communicating the details that he wanted, so I ended up taking a lot of time (compared to the difficulty of the problem itself).
However, one week later they told me I passed and I would be moved to a second phone interview.
This I spoke with an engineer from Dublin, and after the standard Java and networking theory questions, he asked me to solve a problem in Java, which I did, and then asked me to solve another problem.
It was a string manipulation problem: Given a string, how to find the minimum window containing a given set of characters.
I tried to tackle it, but I never saw that problem before and, being really nervous, I literally coulnd't come up with any better solution than the naive O(n^2)....I knew there was a O(n) but I just couldn't think of it....so I ended up not doing anything. Classic mistake.
However the interviewer tried to help me where he could, to make me relax....all things considered, he was very nice!
However, not surprisingly, after a week or so I have been told I didn't pass the interview.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Background Check.
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