Software Engineer New Grad applicants have rated the interview process at Google with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 61% positive. To compare, the company-average is 61.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer New Grad roles take an average of 44 days to get hired, when considering 203 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Google overall takes an average of 38 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Google as a Software Engineer New Grad according to 203 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 37%
One on one interview: 23%
Presentation: 15%
Skills test: 10%
Personality test: 5%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Group panel interview: 2%
Other: 1%
Drug test: 1%
Background check: 1%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Sep 2015
Interview
I had several phone screens and 4 on-site interviews at the Mountain View Office. The interviewers are nice and comprehensive and they won't hesitate to push you in the right direction if you have the right idea and just need a small push. You'll also have lunch with an engineer which is not part of the interview process so feel free to ask any questions you have in mind, they're usually very open !
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Arrays manipulation + manipulate/check data using tree manipulation + manipulate processes
1 coding assessment. If you pass, you get to the final round which consists of 4 rounds in one day. 3 technical and one behavioral. The algorithms I had was BFS, Min heaps, and backtracking(parentheses)
Got an OA first.
And an interview call.
Question was backtracking leetcode.
i would say a medium-hard question . I was able to solve it but still got rejected. I was hoping for second on site round. idk why .
But i think my interviewer is not in interested in my code like she is not even correcting me.
I applied online. I interviewed at Google (Seattle, WA)
Interview
I applied online with no referral. First was an online coding challenge then 4 virtual onsite 45 minute interviews. I had a call with my recruiter to learn about the details of the interview process. They were 3 technical interviews and 1 behavioral.