I applied through university. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Google (Chicago, IL) in Nov 2018
Interview
It was a long but smooth process and my interactions with the recruiters were excellent as they genuinely care about you. The interviewers were way more interested in my thought process when compared to my interviews at other companies. One thing I noticed was that they were very interested in little optimizations I made to my code that didn't necessarily reduce the Big-O time complexity of solutions but reduced the overhead required. My onsite interviews felt very conversational and genuine and I thoroughly enjoyed brainstorming solutions with the interviewers. I chose the Chicago office but they were full so I got placed with YouTube in California, and I can't wait to start in June!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Signed an NDA, but don't be fixated on specific questions. The thought process and path you take to arrive at a solution is as important as the solution itself. I knew none of the questions asked to me which helped me shine in the interview (with help from the interviewers of course).
1 coding assessment. If you pass, you get to the final round which consists of 4 rounds in one day. 3 technical and one behavioral. The algorithms I had was BFS, Min heaps, and backtracking(parentheses)
Got an OA first.
And an interview call.
Question was backtracking leetcode.
i would say a medium-hard question . I was able to solve it but still got rejected. I was hoping for second on site round. idk why .
But i think my interviewer is not in interested in my code like she is not even correcting me.
I applied online. I interviewed at Google (Seattle, WA)
Interview
I applied online with no referral. First was an online coding challenge then 4 virtual onsite 45 minute interviews. I had a call with my recruiter to learn about the details of the interview process. They were 3 technical interviews and 1 behavioral.