Google Software Engineer Internship interview questions
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Software Engineer Internship 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 80% positive. To compare, the company-average is 71.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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one online coding challenge, then fill out some questionnaire about where do you want to work/ what fields are you interested in, etc., and someone will schedule two back to back phone interviews for you
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Google (Taipei) in Apr 2018
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Just go through the algorithm problem simply, I answered it very quick so there is still plenty of time for me to have a little chat, there are two questions in my interview, and the second one will be quite hard to those who are not very familiar to algorithm task.
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A algorithm task that will need to know something about search and disjoint set
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Google (Atlanta, GA) in Dec 2018
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The process was overall positive. The software engineers I spoke to were very supportive and honest. I enjoyed speaking with them and I could tell they wanted me to do well.