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%
Phone interview: 33%
Skills test: 33%
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They hired me from my oline application. This was followed by a telephonic screening after which I had to clear about 4 technical interviews. there was no HR round. The rounds showed their work culture ehich did not focus on formality. I was impressed by the questions/
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Google
Interview
The hiring process usually begins with one or two phone screens, followed by a day of onsite interviews. I applied through my university, so the initial phone screens were replaced by two more back-to-back in-person interviews. If all goes well during the onsite interviews, there is a series of three hiring meetings behind closed doors, each higher level than the last, after which an offer is made.
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I do take my NDA seriously, but in general terms: the interview questions at Google are extremely difficult and often very tricky.
With that said, contrary to popular opinion, they are not necessarily any harder than the questions that any tech company with high standards would ask. Know your data structures and algorithms back to front; be prepared for questions as high-level as very general OOP design problems and as low-level as bit manipulations; and know your resume cold, because every interviewer was interested in at least one item on it.
I HIGHLY recommend finding a copy of at least one coding interview book (Cracking the Coding Interview, Programming Interviews Exposed, and Design & Analysis of Algorithms served me well) and tackling the problems in it -- they will give you a good idea of what to expect. I will say that I had never seen any of the questions I was asked in my Google interviews (whereas the rest of the industry seems to recycle the same 20 questions over and over), but my practice with general interview-style coding questions was extremely useful nonetheless.
Remember that the interviewer wants to see how you approach a problem you haven't necessarily seen before, so think out loud a lot, and don't forget your edge cases!