I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Zürich) in Jan 2011
Interview
Phone interview, then 2 interviews at a branch office close to where I lived, then some 5 interviews in a day in the office I applied for.
Interviews are technical, be prepared to solve concrete problems, may involve coding, complexity of algorithms, system design. Interviewers are more or less free to ask what they think is relevant, so one interviewer asked about concrete numbers for how long a certain algorithm would run (i.e. expected some basic knowledge about typical hardware), others wanted to know complexity of algorithms or problems in concurrency, or what the most exciting thing was that I learned. If you write about what you did prior, be prepared to answer detailed technical questions about it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you detect a loop in values generated by x <- f(x) ?
The interview lasted about a day, with 5 different interviewers. For each section, the technical questions took most of the part. They also showed me their office in Toronto, which was nice
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What was the most difficult problem you solved during your last job?
it was difficult. lengthy dsa questions. design was ok. needs nice preperation. googlyness also needs preperation. it was difficult. lengthy dsa questions. design was ok. needs nice preperation. googlyness also needs preperation.
One of the interviewer seemed disintered about core tack and focused on AI only. No techinical project wer considered ven if they were highly rated by peers an the community
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