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%
Skills test: 33%
One on one interview: 33%
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Recruiter contacted me via LinkedIn. HR phone interview a week later, then technical phone interview 4 weeks later. Asked me to write a code for the "Fill with color" tool functionality in MS Paint or Photoshop.
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Question 1
write a code for the "Fill with color" tool functionality in MS Paint or Photoshop.
The first interview was a behavior interview. The recruiter asked some question about my resume, such as the projects I have participated in, and my previous work experience. Since the position I apply was software engineer, so she also ask me about my professional skill like which programming language I am most familiar with. This behavior was easy, but unfortunately, there were still 6 months to graduate that time, the recruiter told me they can't wait that long.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in May 2014
Interview
Just like eveybody else. 2 phone screens and 4 onsite. You need to write codes using Google doc during the phone screens and the difficulty of the questions are the same as onsite. So you can really feel how the questions will be. For the onsite, Google did pay my hotel for one night and breakfast + lunch. Onsites are 1-1 and you need to write codes on the white board. They didn't ask me much about myself though. Most the time is just writing codes.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The questions are not as difficult as I think though. Compare to the book "Cracking the code interview", I can say the questions in Google is 50% as hard as the questions in the books.