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      Software Engineering Interview

      22 Mar 2017
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Google in Nov 2016

      Interview

      Applied through the web page, soon afterwards a recruiter contacted and scheduled two 1-hour technical interviews. Each interview was based on one big problem, with subproblems of increasing difficulty. After passing the technical interviews, you get into host matching phase, where you fill a questionaire about yourself and different project hosts reach out to you, scheduling 20-30-minute talks/interviews. Host calls usually consist of describing the project, the team, your potential role and talking about your experience/interests. If after the host call both you and host reply positively, you're hired.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Suppose you have a stream of (timestamp, tag) events. You need to filter this stream (online), leaving only events with tags that haven't been already encountered in the last X seconds.
      Answer question
      3