Google Software Developer interview questions

human resources department is very slow. takes weeks for the final feedback. interview itself was not hard. i interviewed for software engineering position. most of the questions they asked were standard SE algorithm type questions, with only one question being very involved graph algorithm, which was not easy for an interview. if you had just taken a class on graphs, you would probably get the correct answer in 5mins - i hadn't, and in fact i have never taken a single course in computer science. everything i know about algorithms is what i learned on my own. some of the interviewers were hard to understand because of their accents. of the 7 people i met, 3 were chinese, 1 indian, 2 eastern europeans, and 1 american who was the HR dude. googleplex was not impressive. typical corporate buildings. i didn't get to see much of the campus because they locked me up for 5 hours inside a windowless room for the interviews. nothing struck me as unique or eccentric. i didn't get the impression that these people were stuck up or arrogant. only one european guy was kinda rude. lunch was free, and it was good, but it is not some gourmet sh*t that they would have you believe. also, the engineers didn't strike me as super intelligent. they were average software engineers. it's total bullsh*t that you have to be smart to work there. also, it was so easy to tell who worked in engineering and who worked in business. i don't know why i didn't get an offer, and i didn't ask. i wasn't really sure about working at google from the beginning. i didn't initiate the interview process. they did. mountain view and its adjacent areas (san jose, sunnyvale, etc.) are full of these tech sweatshops employing tons of h1b's. i don't know if i would be happy living among them - nothing against them, but they look miserable, and they only work there because they have very little choice. considering that the real estate in the area is very expensive plus all that tax in CA, i don't know if it's worth it. but they have good asian food - which was nice since it's kinda hard to find where i live.