Google Senior Software Engineer interview questions
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Senior Software Engineer 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 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 65.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 60 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Google overall takes an average of 42 days.
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One on one interview: 50%
Phone interview: 50%
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I submitted my resume first, then HR called and asked some culture fit questions, then moved on to the phone screen interview with a senior project manager. Didn't make it to the next stage.
Various coding and infrastructure problems with 5 different interviewers. Solutions were whiteboarded. Interviewers asked good questions to drill deeper on complexity. Some problems were easy and well-defined. The hardest problems were more open-ended.
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How would you design a successful cloud computing offering?
It was split into two days.
5 interviews in total: 3 virtual interviews one day and 2 the next day.
Coding algorithms for 4 interviews and Googlyness .
The entire loop was online using google meet.
The recruiter contacted me the next day to give me the rejection call
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Question 1
Leetcode questions about matrices and random numbers