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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The process is great. I spent a lot of time discussing with the problems. However my ability is not enough so finally I failed... (Fill up to 30 fill fill)
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Rochester, NY) in Jun 2018
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The interview lasted for 90 min. Two interviews 45 min each. None of my interviewers spent more than 20 seconds talking about my background. Your approach to a algorithm tech problem is paramount. Language of the questions is very contrived, but if you can break them down in simple terms, they are pretty standard (easy to medium on leetcode).
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They asked two standard leetcode style question, but in contrived language.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Wellesley, MA) in Sep 2018
Interview
Two back to back technical interviews, 45 min each. Interviewers are really helpful and give a lot of hints. Sometimes they will let you pass if they think you understand the problem. They would use about 10min to talk about what they do at Google and then jump right in. I coded in Java.
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I got three small questions in the first interview and one big class design question in the second.