Google Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details 2 phone interview

Interview Details The second phone interview which was a technical interview.

Interview Details Contacted by recruiter for a initial phone interview. Later a week, i got a call from a person in Google sydney office. He was very polite and trying to get best out of me by giving hints. Interview went well. One puzzle and one simple problem. I used java to solve it. But later one week, they had mentioned, though interviewer were impressed with your accomplishments, they felt my experience was not strong match for current requirement.

Interview Details I started at Google as an intern, which required one non-technical phone screen followed by three technical phone interviews (one more than most people get). The questions here were all fairly straightforward questions of the form "Write some algorithm with some performance characteristics".

After a three month internship, I took "conversion" interviews to apply for a full time position. After a practice interview (where feedback is given - a tool to help interns prepare), I took two in-person, whiteboard-coding interviews back-to-back. I was lucky enough that the questions I was asked and my skillset intersected, and was offered a job several weeks later.

There was quite a long time between my interviews and my job offer, but my HR representitive was very communicactive and helpful the entire time, letting me know which stage my application was in.

Negotiation Details – Given that I was hired in at the new graduate level, there is very little/no negotiation. I highly doubt any new grad would even *want* to negotiate on salary given their standard offer :)

Interview Details The initial recruiter was excellent. She got me very excited about Google, but may have misinterpreted my interests a little (putting me in SRE instead which seems somewhat sysadminish for a developer).

I had 2 phone interviews and got asked to interview in Sydney. The interviewers were excellent, although again there was a focus on system administration stuff which I made clear was not a strength or interest. The coding questions were good, and I particularly enjoyed the algorithms/big data questions which they saved for last.

Unfortunately the guy I was assigned to for lunch let the whole group down. He was arrogant, unhelpful and made me hope this kind of person didn't represent the usual lunchtime/peer situation.

After a long waiting time, Google asked for yet another phone interview which I really struggled on. I had been interviewing elsewhere given how long they'd taken to get back to me, and scheduled the interview after another. I did poorly and was getting quite frustrated with the Google process.

Finally after another long wait, they suddenly requested my transcript, which took some time to dig up. Another Google department gave me a phone interview almost exclusively based on Javascript despite my clearly stating I'd written about 10 lines in my entire career. This was similarly misinterpreted, and I never heard back from that department again.

Eventually I was told to try again in 12-18 months.

Interview Details I had three rounds of phone interviews. I made some mistake in the second round.

Interview Details The interview stage was composed of a phone interview and two one-hour coding sessions on a shared document.
The phone interview included 2-4 general questions and about 8 technical questions.
The coding interviews were composed of 2 programming problems and related theoretical questions
Coding questions were as seen on websites such as codejam and ACM

Interview Details The hiring and interview process is quite rigorous at Google. The first was an initial phone interview which was not too daunting, just covered general experience, achievements to note and gather my interest in the role. The second interview was quite intense. It was basically 2.5 hours of 1 case study to test problem solving, general IQ/mathematical questions, behavioural questions and questions around a real life work example to test if I could perform in the role. There was no break and the interview was conducted by 3 different employees.

Interview Details Phone interview asked standard code related questions, about object oriented code, defensive
programming, etc. did well at that. one to one interview was similar but more in-depth