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 65.3% 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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Random DSA questions - they expected you to mug up random questions. They did not help at all. Not expected from a company like Google. No resume questions were asked.
The interview was very complex for me. I got asked a question about a matric and a graph cycle using C++. Unfortunately this was not a topic i covered in my leetcode sessions
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Google (Atlanta, GA) in Nov 2021
Interview
Coding Challenge and 2 Phone Interviews 45 min with two engineers. No behavioral questions. The interview questions are straight forward and the interviewers do ask follow up questions. Overall I enjoyed the process and interviewers. Heard back from Google 2 weeks after.
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Question 1
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