Google Developer interview questions

I was one of 25 people who qualified to Onsite round of Google Code Jam in New York. I decided to interview with them on the day before the actual competition. There was no phone interview, since getting into Onsite round of GCJ is considerably harder than passing phone interview. There were 4 interview in total - each being 45 minutes long. There was a lunch break after the first two. The third interviewer was about 25 minutes late, so they decided to put him after the fourth one. All that extra time I could explore the floor, they even agreed to arrange me a short show-around. Interview questions seemed rather easy to me - some of the questions seem to have roots in classical programming olympiads problems. They told me in a week, that I did well on the interview, then they sent all my feedback to a recruiter in London, because I wanted to work in Zurich, and not in America. There were several more things they wanted to know before they could make the final decision: grades in university, current salary and so on. Thus, in about one month after the interview they came up with the offer. It's also worth noting that I am still on my last year in university, so I will only start working in about a year.

I had a few recruitment emails about starting the process. Eventually I scheduled a phone interview, but the soonest slot was three weeks away. When they did call me, they'd prepared the wrong questions (for a Site Reliability Engineer, not Software Engineer). Heard back from them a few months later but by then I'd lost interest.