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:
Skills test: 33%
Phone interview: 33%
One on one interview: 33%
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I applied on the company website, got contacted several weeks later.
Planned a phone call a month later.
The first interviewer was not very friendly and started to ask questions directly.
The second interviewer was nice, asked questions and did not say nothing when asked to repeat the question. I could talk with him at the end of the interview, like asking what he is doing in Google, and which products he is working.
The interview was decent. Was asked an easy question initially followed by a tough question. The interviewer didnt ask anything about the interview, and jumped straight to the coding questions. Also it was a phone screen so I wasnt given any hint.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement hash table.
Given a mountain of integers :: like 1 2 3 9 6 5 or 4 9 3 give the maximum
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Oct 2014
Interview
First I applied the position online. Then few weeks later they scheduled a phone interview. After that, they scheduled an onsite interview in Mountain View. Phone interview took 45 minutes and onsite took 4*45 minutes.