1 phone screen. 5 on-site interviews. Phone screen: briefly went through the skills mentioned in my CV. Discussed my favorite programming language. 1 easy algorithmic question which required some experience in backtracking implementation.
IMHO all algorithmic questions at on-site interviews were not any harder than TopCoder Div1 250. Simply read a book on algorithms then solve some TopCoder problems (say, 20-30) and you should feel comfortable on these interviews. I highly recommend coursera algorithmic courses.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Open-ended questions were the most difficult because it's hard to say how you perform.
It was a 3 round interview process with 2 technical rounds and 1 HR round. I was mostly asked DSA focused questions. Trees, heap, graphs and sliding window were mostly stressed for me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Trees, heap, graphs and sliding window were mostly stressed for me.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at YouTube in Oct 2024
Interview
Long and slow. There were four rounds of interviews spanning over a month and they don't get back to you quickly. The interviews themselves were ok and took an hour each.
The interview process was demanding as they asked several questions about my masters degree thesis and on my research projects, which were challenging to remember as I had done these more than 7 years ago.
