Candidates applying for Software 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 Software Developer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
Skills test: 33%
One on one interview: 33%
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Just coding questions for coding roung(medium/hard level in leetcode) followed by 2 interviews which also ask coding questions(the interviewres help to solve them if you got stuck, tell them what you are going to do and seek for their approval)
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sum type one:
like if i am given an array [2,3,5,10] i should give all possible ways to make the sum(target) some k which here is 10; ans would be [2,2,2,2,2]....[5,2,3],[5,5],[10] type
The interview process was comprehensive.
First came the usual gauntlet: multiple rounds with different team members, each one upping the difficulty. I breezed through behavioral questions and tackled a couple of live coding problems — the kind where you feel like you’re solving a riddle while someone watches you type.
Then came peer coding, which was like a collaborative jam session but with algorithms instead of guitars. We debugged each other’s ideas in real time, traded code snippets, and silently judged one another’s variable names.
Finally — the pièce de résistance — the “creative problem-solving” round. They shrunk me down to action-figure size, tossed me into a blender, and said, “Okay, you have 30 seconds to escape before we hit purée. Go.” It was less about JavaScript and more about pure survival instincts. I like to think my solution was elegant: I rewired the blender’s base using its own safety interlock, climbed the cord, and exited with dignity intact… mostly.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
"You’ve been reduced to 3 inches tall and placed inside a running blender. You have 60 seconds before the blades start spinning. How would you design an escape plan using only the physical materials immediately around you? Please explain your approach in Big-O notation."
I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Google (San Francisco, CA) in May 2022
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Fairly easy; more conversational than technical. I interviewed for ML eng position back in 2022 and got the job. Just study medium/hard leetcode and you will do fine on the interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe how a neural network works and what backpropagation is.