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:
One on one interview: 33%
Skills test: 33%
Phone interview: 33%
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Applied via their website. Initial contact was made in one week and interview was conducted after two weeks. As you know, Google's interview process is almost similar to others, unless your so exceptional in some area.
The interview was not that difficult, however, it was tricky to me. Interviewer just start coding test through Google Doc after asking one simple question related to my resume. There's no small talk for warming up.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement typical graph algorithm in both recursive and iterative manner
I was emailed about an opportunity to work at Google. The email asked me to set up a phone interview where they asked about my interests and background. They they set up another phone interview, this time a technical one. The technical interview involved coding and asking the interviewer questions about his role at Google. After the first interview, I received another phone call from my recruiter. My recruiter said I needed one more technical phone interview before an on-site interview, so we scheduled one. The second interview was similar to the first.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write code to determine if a given input string contains balanced parentheses.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google in May 2014
Interview
1. HR Recruiter: standard chat
2. Technical Recruiter: scheduled the interview
3. On site Interview
- 5 rounds of technical interviews
- system design questions
- recursive questions
- some java language questions
Three out of five engineers doing the interviews were not very friendly. One was very abrupt. One behaved like a police officer who pulled me over. One was late and kept interrupt me while I was writing code