I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at YouTube (New York, NY) in Jan 2016
Interview
Applied online and was contacted by the recruiter in 3 or 4 days asking me to schedule a phone screen. The recruiter was very friendly and cooperative when I asked for some extra time as I had some other interviews lined up and college work to take care of. When I eventually did schedule a phone interview, it lasted about 45 mins. There was one matrix related question and I was asked to code in Java on a shared document.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One problem to be coded in Java. Exception handling, complexity measurement and optimization of the problem.
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.