Itnernship applicants have rated the interview process at Google with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Itnernship roles take an average of 120 days to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Google overall takes an average of 42 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Google as a Itnernship according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 33%
Phone interview: 33%
Group panel interview: 33%
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This review is solely about the first telephone interview:
The interview was essentially a fast-paced walkthrough of my CV. For each of my previous jobs that I had listed I was asked to describe the position in detail. I was often asked to give examples and specify, especially when I made strong statements such as "experience X was great because it gave me a better understanding of Y".
Key takeaway: you better be prepared to back-up your personal sales pitch with memorized examples from your past experience.
In the end I was asked about Google's revenue composition (it's almost entirely from AdWords) and what I knew about Google's other projects.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Definitely the clarifying questions! Fortunately I was well prepared, but you basically have zero time to search you memory. You need to have pre-composed answers, otherwise you'll come off as having oversold yourself in your CV.
I applied online. I interviewed at Google in Jan 2014
Interview
Phone interview using Google doc, they ask me to solve a numerical problem using my own programming language. I can not remember exactly but is too detailed. They gave a set of graph point and edges and ask to process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The question is too detail for the implementation. It is like undergrad question and need to be very well prepared instead of using solid professional experience and creative mind (mind opinion)
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Feb 2012
Interview
Submitted resume and got an email to schedule an interview within 3 weeks. Scheduled it as later as possible to be able to review my algothms, and my Java. The first interviewer was half sleepy half eating during the interview. He asked about my background (in order to finish his bagel while i was talking). Next he tried to explain me a question but he started from LCD display (why ?).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The actual question was: given an integer, its digits are stored in the array, the very last digit is the very last element of the array. Write a function that adds one to this integer. The LCD display discussion was totally misleading and inappropriate.