Google Software Engineer University Grad interview questions

Overall process took 14 weeks The recruiters were very friendly and helpful. Week 1 Recruiter emails to set up phone screen Week 2 Recruiter phone screen: informal phone call with recruiter to discuss your current projects and skills Week 4 Coding sample: they give you link to 2 coding problems you have to solve in 60 mins Week 9 One phone interview with google docs: this is where most of the filtering of candidates happen. I delayed this for 4 weeks to review. Interviewer was helpful and was not intimidating. Make sure you walk through your thinking and not go straight to coding. 2 problems, was not able to finish the 2nd one but I told him my approach. Make sure to engage the interviewer throughout the 45 minutes. They will give you a broad problem, so ask questions! Week 12 Onsite interviews: the most fun interview experience I've ever had! They're campus is awesome. They book you to this very nice hotel with shuttle to the campus. They pay for hotel and flight, reimbursements for food and ground travel expenses. 2 interviews in the morning, lunch with another engineer (not an interview), 2 interviews in the afternoon. First 2 interviewers were really friendly. 3rd interviewer was kind of intimidating. He was on his laptop don't know if he's taking notes or doing his own thing. I was still able to engage him a little bit and was still able to come up with a solution. 4th interview was where I screwed up. The interviewer was from an Asian background and I could not understand most of the words she was saying. I wasn't prepared for the question. It was with a lot of analysis and math. All interviewers take pictures of your code for every progress and fixing of bugs you make. Approach to all interviews: ask questions, talk through your approach, start coding at the same time talking to what you're writing, do testing Week 14 Recruiter called me they cannot give me an offer. I was kind of expecting this because I knew I have to nail all 4 interviews. They cannot disclose any information regarding the decision I may not have received an offer, but going on-site was such an amazing and memorable experience!

Skipped the phone screen because I had limited time. Went straight to on site at NYC, thought i did well on all of the 4 technical (1hr each) interviews. Got a call from the recruiter a couple of weeks later saying I had done really well on the interviews and received positive feedback, but the hiring team did not think I had enough previous experience for the position, was referred to another (more entry level position, did not pursue).