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Claude responded: The hiring process consists of a CV screening stage, followed by a behavioral online assessment, and then wraps up with a 30-minute interview with the team.
The hiring process consists of a CV screening stage, followed by a behavioral online assessment, and then wraps up with a 30-minute interview with the team.
Difficult interview
Application
The process took 2+ months. I interviewed at Google in May 2011
Interview
Two or three phone screens with recruiters. A 30 minute interview with another APM. Then flew out to HQ, from VA, for the on-site interviews. 3 hour long interviews before lunch, lunch interview and 3 varied length interviews after lunch. Was on the campus about 6 hours total. One interview was purely technical, the others were focused on strategy and creative thinking/problem solving.
They asked what my favorite product was and how I would make it better. The entire interview was mostly centered around the product that I chose and my thinking about it.
5 interviews on-site with different team members.
It was hard to go from a friendly office tour to a deeply technical CS question first thing in the morning! However, it got easier after the first question and everyone was very friendly.
PS- The office is very fun too.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write code to calculate number of combinations of N numbers