Candidates applying for Developer roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Google overall takes an average of 38 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Google as a Developer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
Skills test: 33%
One on one interview: 33%
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I got some recommendation from my friend. And the day after I submitted related documents, recruiters sent me very kind Emails to arrange two back-to-back telephone interviews. And days before the interview, they send mails again to remind the date of interview, that is very sweet.
During the interview, there are some coding questions and interesting discussion. That was a good experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Some design questions. You have to abstract the essential of the problems and design the appropriate interfaces.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Google in Nov 2012
Interview
A recruiter from Google contacted me via LinkedIn. After an initial 10 minutes call, we scheduled a phone interview for the next week and I got a link for a shared doc to use during the interview. It lasted 45 minutes and I was asked a coding question, which I was solving the whole given time (bad). Then I was asked for a time complexity of the function (right). The SW engineer was nice and helpful.
At the same day I got a feedback that they will not continue with my application.
They hired me from my oline application. This was followed by a telephonic screening after which I had to clear about 4 technical interviews. there was no HR round. The rounds showed their work culture ehich did not focus on formality. I was impressed by the questions/