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.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer Internship roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 5 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Google overall takes an average of 43 days.
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Some interviewers are good and actually care about your learning and others are not. I had to fill out a survey. Then I had to pick some phone interview dates. The phone interview involved coding on a google doc.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Oct 2018
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Was sent an online coding test with a practice problem and a personality quiz. The person managing the applicants was nice enough to contact me to add some information.
It is not really a difficult interview. Doing some online coding problems and learning to code on the whiteboard will help a lot.
I applied online on google careers web site. After several (3-4) weeks I had two interviews: about my research and technical interview about programming and algorithms. Interviewer contacted thought google hangouts.