SWE Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Google with 4 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 SWE Intern roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Google overall takes an average of 42 days.
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Relatively low stress, there’s two rounds of technicals and the first is purposefully easy to help you feel more at ease. Second was much more challenging but the biggest problem I had was that my interviewer was not very engaged
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Nov 2023
Interview
Went through two hour-long technical interviews after an initial phone screen. Received simple leetcode medium / easy style questions from the interviewer. Was asked if I had any questions after the interview.
I applied online. I interviewed at Google (Austin, TX) in Aug 2022
Interview
They will test you on projects from your resume so be prepared. They will ask you about the best and worst case Big-O of methods you use and intensively want you to type while you code, that's a big one. They purposefully want you to ask them questions about edge cases and tricks you find.
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Question 1
Can't remember but it was about recursion over a map.