YouTube Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details – Applied on LinkedIn, received a email asking for some questions about GPA, preferred location...Then scheduled a phone interview. The interviewer is a lady, we spent 5 mins on talking about most challenging project then coding questions. It's about a list of parent/child pairs, then print out the family tree.

Interview Details – Contacted via email by the recruiter who found my resume from a previous application and upon request of the hiring manager who was interested in my experiences and skills. First interview in the form of a Google + hangout with the hiring manager. Very positive experience, conversational interview, a lot of questions about the company/brand to see how I would do on the job. They then invited for a round of interviews in San Bruno (paid for flights and accommodations), where I met with three people and the hiring manager again. Out of the three people, one was a peer from the same team, one from the creative team and one from cross-functional. Typical interviews following Google's style with a lot of emphasis on how/what I would do on the job, very friendly conversations. After this I was called back for a final round as a Google + hangout and heard back about three days later. Unfortunately I didn't receive an offer but the process was enjoyable and professionally handled by the recruiter.

Interview Details – Probably the worst interview process I have ever had. It started out with a quick response from a recruiter to setup the tech screen. Now I'm not a huge fan of being asked or asking technical questions that have real life implications, but that was the only question I was asked. The question was "Given a telephone write a program that generates all possible permutations of letter strings." Sounds easy... it's not. It also has nothing to do with the job that I would be preforming. I worked on the problem for 35 minutes then talked about some technical topics for another 10 minutes or so. It was extremely difficult understand the person performing the interview (thick accent and he had me on speaker phone).

I never received a call after that. A month latter I got a survey to take about the experience. I let them know how I felt about the process. It was not a positive one.

Interview Details – I got two interviews, first is phone interview with HR, it was easy. 2nd interview was with a DBA, he is very knowledable, his questions are very detailed, kinda remind me about the ACT test which test bookworms.

Interview Details – Was contacted by a recruiter and then gave a phone interview

Interview Details – This was a contract job. I was contacted by a 3rd party contracting company that found my resume on Craigslist. After an initial phone screening where I was basically presented with a brief but vague summary of the job and its perks, I was set up with an in-person interview. I interviewed with three employees at YouTube and started the job two weeks later. The contract started as a 3-month agreement and was extended to a full year. At the end of the year, Google requires contractors to take off three months before being eligible to start a new contract. At the end of the three months, I was asked to return for another year-long contract.

Negotiation Details – I was not able to negotiate for my first contract. The contract was already set. Before excepting the contract for my second year, I asked for at least three dollars more per hour, but they only raised the rate by one dollar per hour.

Interview Details – First contacted by a company recruiter and did the initial phone interview with HR which covered current resume, work objectives, interests in future career, etc. Went really well. Scheduled a technical screen call.

Interview took place on a Google doc. Interviewer went through some basic background questions and then asked for implementation of a Fibonacci function. I did a recursive version. Interviewer asked me to walk through the code, which I did. Then asked to create a non-recursive version. After several false starts, completed a working version of non-recursive. Asked how I would optimize the routine.

At that point, I clearly did something wrong, because interviewer said that was all the questions he had. He asked me if I had any questions about the company. Answers to all my questions were evasive or non-answers. A week later I received an email that they weren't interested in continuing the interview process.

Interview Details – Communicate through a recruiter. Difficult to prepare for the interview because the questions were not typical and tested thought process more than actual answers.

Interview Details – Always my interview took through online.

Negotiation Details – i think nothing special.