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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Leetcode medium, prepare lots of leetcode and get practice talking through your thought process. Several levels of questions and extensions and also talk through run time and test cases. interviewers were friendly
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given a sequence s of n digits, find a subsequence of k digits such that the number formed by these k didgits (in order) is the largest
It was very professional and the interview questions were very clear.
There were two 45 minutes long meetings, one after another, hosted by two different Google Engineers. Every interviewer had a Google Sheet Document prepared with an algorithmic problem.
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Basic Complexity problems for different sorting and searching algorithms.
Not too difficult, guess i got down on details, i was not the best in my communication skills.How ever it is typical gooogle, 2 back to back interviews of 1 h each with 2 different engineers, was not easy to get both, but its possible!