I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at YouTube (Mountain View, CA) in Feb 2015
Interview
Several weeks ago, I applied software engineer new grad position of YouTube. Two weeks ago, I got the recruiter's phone call. There were seven separate interviews total. The two three were over the phone (phone interviews) and the remaining five were on-site. The first interview was with the recruiter and was not very technical but the other seven were very technical. Both two phone interviews are with a member of their engineering team. Both is about 45 mins, the first round has 2 coding questions and some simple questions, the second round is more technical.
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.
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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.
