First of all, I'm glad to hear that you are preparing for Google internship as getting an internship is a 'shortcut' for your full time position. AFAIK, Google has a very high intern to full time conversion rate, so once you are an intern, you get. Glassdoor has 3,249 interview reports and interview questions from people who interviewed for Software Engineer jobs at Google. Interview reviews are posted anonymously by Google interview candidates and employees. These Google interview questions are some of my favorites collected from different sources. Every Programmer knows that Google is one of the best technology company and its dream for many software developers to work for google, but at same time interview process at google is very tough and only a few genuine intelligent programmers get through their interview process. GroupLens students and alumni successfully interview at Google on a regular basis. Several current GroupLens students have interned at the company, and our alumni have become Google research scientists and software engineers. I collected the following technical interview preparation tips from Google recruiters and engineers. Glassdoor has 14 interview reports and interview questions from people who interviewed for Software Test Engineer jobs at Google. Interview reviews are posted anonymously by Google interview candidates and employees.
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I applied for a job at google and i was able to receive a phone call from them within a day.I am not sure if it is because i live in the west coast. Your resume should have all the key-words for the job requisition for starters. ---------------------------------------------------
Interview candidates say the interview experience difficulty for Software Engineer at Google is average. Some recently asked Google Software Engineer interview questions were, 'How would you manage the project of the replacement of discs for a data center? Write a program to find if an Integer is a palindrome?
i did have my first round of google phone interview(test engg position).it was okay.they ask you hard-core computer science questions.one of the questions i had was based on theory of computation/finite automaton.
i know the really tough questions are going to be in algorithms..bottom line..you should know algorithms from back to front, down to up--basically 360 degrees knowledge.So that is only the basic.
if you dont know algorithms--you can forget about getting into google..i will be reading it up.its been a while.
And the questions they ask--you will not find them in text books or anywhere.:).
i am going to have my second round of phone interview soon.
good luck for the rest of you folks..
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This post is about the interviewing / hiring process at Google. Parts of it may apply to other jobs at Google, or possibly engineering jobs at companies similar to Google. I hope this will give you some insight into how companies like Google operate, and might help you get a job there.
I’m posting this with a throwaway because I’m trying to be as honest as possible, and cut the usual corporate bullshit, and I don’t want to lose my job.
That being said, I like working at Google and would highly recommend it to anybody in the software engineering field.
This is pretty long - there are a couple of actionable tips at the end if you’re not interested in the whole process.
I'm a software engineer at Google, and I have been working there for 6 years. I have interviewed over 120 people in this time and interview people pretty much every week now.
Basic english writing skill pdf. So this is how it works.
First off, you must know that the recruitment organization at Google is run by complete and utter morons. Recruiters get hired and fired all the time, and almost all of them are completely useless. Trust me, I have interacted with a great many of them. They may not be bad (or dumb) people, but the environment in which they work makes it impossible for them to do a good job.
It is completely normal that they forget to call you, forget your interview half way through, reassign you to random people, or to positions which you are clearly not qualified for. Almost every single person working at Google has a story regarding recruiter incompetence which affected them or one of their friends. I referred 2 people, and they royally screwed up in both cases.
Now that that’s out of the way: you either apply for a job (usually via our website), or a recruiter contacts you, usually because they found you on linkedin (or similar) or because someone referred you.
Then a recruiter looks at your CV (more on your CV later), to weed out the people who have obviously no business working in IT. If you have a suitable degree (e.g. BS in CS, EE, math or physics), or a few years of experience, or are a contributor to some well-known open source project, then the game can begin.
Round 1: a recruiter calls you. They will ask you a few simple questions. Things such as 'what's faster, quicksort or bubblesort'. If you answer enough of these correctly, you get to the next round. If you fail here: stop moaning, go away and go improve yourself, there is no way you would have passed the later stages anyway.
Round 2: an engineer will call you, and interview you for 45 minutes. Only the 'best' interviewers get to do what we call 'first phone screens' because that's where the most people get kicked out. Sadly, I am one of them.
From the interviewer perspective, this is the absolute worst. About 1/10 candidates pass this step, because most candidates (even with master’s degrees and claimed multi-year experience) are completely incompetent.
So be prepared to talk to an engineer who expects you to fail, and would rather be doing something else.
I can’t tell you what exactly will happen during this interview, because different people have different styles, but from what I have seen it boils down to two main approaches:
Google Software Engineer Interview Questions 2019
To give you an idea, a warmup question might be something like “reverse a string in place” or “implement atoi” or something like that. A good and capable engineer should be able to solve this in about 5 minutes. Sadly, only a minority of the people I interview ever get past this warmup question in the allotted 45 minutes.
I used to care much more. I used to try to help them. Try to make them feel good. But I can talk and talk, explain and explain, in the end we won’t hire you if you can’t reverse a linked list, or do a case-insensitive string comparison. I have done this so many times, I'm terribly frustrated about this. So now if you fuck up here, I’ll just let you talk for 20 minutes, say “uh huh” once in a while and review code in the meantime. And then I’ll ask you about “your most interesting project so far” or some bullshit like that.
Side note: if any interviewer starts out with a technical question, and then switches to “your most interesting project” or “the most complicated bug you have ever fixed”, this means one of two things:
a) Unlikely: You are so awesome that you ran the interviewer out of questions. This does happen, but very rarely. b) More likely, you are such a muppet that the interviewer would rather stab himself than hear you fail again. So he lets you tell a story while he zones out. In his rating, he will give you the lowest possible score, and this will end the interview process for you.
Now assuming that you made it past the warmup question, that you - congrats! - are part of the elite who know how to write a recursive function, or how to split a string by commas - then we get to the “real” question. I usually choose them so that they can barely finish it in the remaining 35 minutes.
Examples might include:
Google Software Engineer Internship Interview Questions
These are all pretty hard to do in 35 minutes. Most people can't, and it's not necessarily a failure if you don't get 100% there. But once in a while, when you are very, very lucky, you find a guy who finishes this, and has time to spare.
After the interview, we write a report about the interview (“interview feedback”), which includes a score. By the way, don't ask how you did, you won't be told. We are not allowed to because people might sue us (e.g. if an interviewer tells you you did great, but we don’t hire you).
That report goes to the recruiter, which will then decide whether they want to go on. If yes (mostly no):
Round 3: exactly the same as round 2, but with a different engineer. From the interviewer's perspective, second phone screens are infinitely better than first phone screens, because the totally incompetent have been weeded out already.
If you pass again: onsite interviews!
We fly you to one of our offices, where you will have 3 interviews of 45 minutes, lunch, and 2 more interviews. These are basically the same as phone screens, but you get to see the interviewers face to face.
Senior Software Engineer Interview Questions
If you totally suck, they sometimes walk you out after lunch, and skip the last two interviews.
Otherwise: the collected feedback goes to a committee of senior engineers who look at the feedback which was collected from you in 7 gruelling hours. They look at it for 3-5 minutes and decide whether you are hired or not. In exceptional cases, they decided that they don’t have enough information, and ask you to do more interviews. Hooray.
If they decide to hire you, the recruiter will call you and make you an offer. You will probably say yes, because we pay very, very, very well.
A couple of tips:
Have fun guys.
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