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Updated Jan 31, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
Ratings are reflective of location and job title.
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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
Average Interview
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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 Engineer at Google
Posted Jan 6, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2010 in San Francisco, CA (took 3+ weeks)
Everybody that interviewed me was generally pleasant. Lots of emphasis on puzzles, which I tend to enjoy, but don't find to be very effective interview questions.
Interview Questions
How can you determine which one weighs less in 3 weighs?
Now how would you do it if you didn't know if the odd coin weighs less or more?
Other Details
The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and an IQ/Intelligence Test.
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Software Engineer at Google
Posted Nov 1, 2011 — 2 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 Oct 2011 in San Francisco, CA (took a day)
Recruiter called me and set me up for a phone interview. Phone interview consisted of a simple coding question about an array of structs in C. Some questions about my thesis.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Site Reliability Engineer at Google
Posted Sep 27, 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 in Dublin, CA (took 1 week)
I was contacted by a recruiter asking if i am interested in working at google and scheduled a phone interview.first round is a recruiter screen with basic unix/linux commands which went well.second interview is more technical,it included topics from networking,Tcp/ip protocols,RAID etc,They would dig little deeper as you keep answering.It ended with a writing a program in language of your choice.I chose perl.
3rd phone screen was mostly into Data structures and algorithms which required coding in C or Java.
implementation of hash tables and binary trees etc and more of open ended questions.3rd interviewer was hurrying up and did not give much time to think because you fail to answer the first question correctly.Overall it was a good experience.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Skills Test.
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Technical Account Manager at Google
Posted Jun 13, 2011 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 Jun 2011 in San Bruno, CA (took 4 weeks)
I felt the recruiting/HR process was messy and my recruiter didn't communicate with me very well. I tried to ask questions along the way to help me prepare, but her responses were short and unprofessional. The phone interview was pretty average and lasted for maybe 30 minutes. I heard back within a few days to schedule an onsite interview with 3-4 people. I ended up only having 2 onsite interviews since the third person was on a vacation. My recruiter was a no show, so someone else helped me out. The technical interview felt off topic for the position and didn't go well. Overall, the process made me like Google less and I wonder how a company this big can have such a flawed process. After my messy onsite day, I was assigned a new recruiter who was very helpful, so I guess it was just bad luck! Since I like Google and the products, I'd apply again!
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Software Engineer at Google
Posted Mar 8, 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 Jan 2011 in San Francisco, CA (took 2 months)
They called me 1 month after sending my resume. After a first phone screening, we set a date for a phone interview. The day of the interview no one called me at the expected time, what was lame. I had to call the recruiter and push them to call me again that day because I had taken the day off only to do the interview. Another guy from the Colorado office called me 3 hours later. The interview consisted of some questions and then writing some code in a interactive GoogleDoc based on two algorithms, and analyze it. I nailed everything but got stuck in the second implementation of the algorithm, what got me out.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Financial Analyst at Google
Posted Mar 1, 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 Feb 2011 in San Francisco, CA (took a day)
I just had 1 interview with the HR. Didn't get past that. She asked about my GPA both in undergrad and grad schools. Other questions:
1. Why Google?
2. Why this role?
3. About the previous role.
She said it was a very competitive position so it was important to highlight relevant "analysis" experience as much as possible. I couldn't get past this stage because it wasn't possible for me to join asap as they wanted.
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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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SRE at Google
Posted Jan 31, 2011 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 2010 in San Francisco, CA (took 2 weeks)
Contacted by a recruiter on the phone, passed a few idiot proof screening questions, then was scheduled for an on-site interview consisting in 5 interviews, ranging from theory to coding on the white board.
Overall experience was OK, one interviewer wasn't really cool, the other folks were great. I have been pretty disappointed by the way the recruiters act (e.g: don't give you any response, you need to contact them to have feedback).
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer at Google
Posted Jan 18, 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 Jan 2011 in San Bruno, CA (took 1 week)
I applied for the youtube job on their website and got a call after a week from their recruiter HR. Initially the HR forwarded me the wrong job profile. The job profile was for team lead and I am a developer. She asked me to study python for interview. Few days later, the other HR mailed me confirming the date for phone interview. This time she forwarded the correct job profile.
The interviewer called after 10 mins of scheduled time. Intially she mistook me for some other candidate. There was no formal introduction or description of the role or project. She seemed busy and she directly asked me if I am willing to work on php or python and Mysql.
And then she proceeded with questions.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Associate Product Manager at Google
Posted Sep 9, 2010
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2008 in San Francisco, CA (took 4+ weeks)
Full on-site interview process with roughly 10 people, written essay, phone interview, culminating in a group scavenger hunt in San Francisco. Process was very thorough, but not intimidating; there are plenty of great Googlers involved with the process. Only criticism would be that it was a long, somewhat drawn out affair.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test, a Personality Test and a Background Check.
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