I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at YouTube (San Bruno, CA) in Feb 2017
Interview
I was called by a Google recruiter and after passing the phone interview, I was asked to interview at Youtube. The interview was weird overall. There were many low level questions and I had applied for a general SWE role. There weren't the usual array/hash/trees/lists etc questions.
2 weeks later I had feedback that the hiring committee rejected me for inconsistent performance. Apparently, some interviewers had really good feedback, some had really bad ones.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Big Edian/Little Edian
2. Design a board game
3. Graph + matrix question
etc.-
It was a 3 round interview process with 2 technical rounds and 1 HR round. I was mostly asked DSA focused questions. Trees, heap, graphs and sliding window were mostly stressed for me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Trees, heap, graphs and sliding window were mostly stressed for me.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at YouTube in Oct 2024
Interview
Long and slow. There were four rounds of interviews spanning over a month and they don't get back to you quickly. The interviews themselves were ok and took an hour each.
The interview process was demanding as they asked several questions about my masters degree thesis and on my research projects, which were challenging to remember as I had done these more than 7 years ago.