Candidates applying for Software Engineer 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 Engineer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
One on one interview: 33%
Skills test: 33%
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I got a phone interview from google, for software engineer. Firstly we set up the date to have this phone interview. Then I had a 45 minutes phone interview with one of the googler. The question was not hard but not so straightforward. I need some help from my interviewer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Read a line of data and encode method, determine the end element is belong to which type.
I submited my resume online. After 2 weeks the HR contacted me to arrange a phone interview.
It was about 40 minutes.
The process is writing code on google doc and interact with interviewer through the phone.
I was informed to get an onsite one working day after the interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. merge two sorted lists. 2.merge k sorted lists
He asked followed up questions about memory allocation, difference between heap and priority queue, , time complexity and a few issues with my STL usage.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Google
Interview
Applied through a employee referral. Was contacted by a recruiter who asked me about my background and told me about the interview process (1-2 phone screens and then ~5 on-site interviews). He then scheduled a phone screen with one of their engineers. The phone screen was a bit odd I think, the person did not really introduce her self and jumped right to the questions. The rush made me a little bit more nervous but I guess she didn't think the usual background/interests chat mattered. Otherwise the format was very similar to other technical phone screens I've done.
It took a rather long time for the recruiter to get back to me and actually it wasn't until I sent him an email >3 weeks later that he promptly replied that he coincidentally just received the results (right) and there weren't enough positives to move forward.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Started off with some knowledge questions about graphs (no coding). Then a rather tricky combinatorics problem that involved a base 9 number system (as opposed to binary base 2 or hex base 16). I stumbled on the solution in the end but was way to nervous and that probably didn't look to good.