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%
One on one interview: 33%
Phone interview: 33%
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phone interview, B+ tree, optimization of database, two algorithm problem, sort the array so that the odd number in front of the even number and their relative order doesn't change in O(n)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
sort the array so that the odd number in front of the even number and their relative order doesn't change in O(n)
I applied through other source. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Google in Sep 2013
Interview
My intern conversion interview, two rounds.
First Round: talk my intern project about 5 minutes. Then a hard algorithm problem. Cost all the rest time.
Second Round: Since the hard problem has already been asked, the interview is much more casual. Only a simple program problem and the most time are talking my project and the interviewer's work.
I applied through other source. I interviewed at Google in Sep 2013
Interview
It was a phone screen interview, the interviewer asked me question regarding my interests, my favorite programming language, algorithm, projects I have previously worked on. The interview was mainly conversational.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The unexpected question was to implement merge sort in java.