I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in May 2009
Interview
I applied online. After about 4 weeks, I got a call back from an internal recruiter.
An initial step was to fill out a form that serves as a self evaluation of skill sets: rate your top-level language ....
Another 2 weeks past, another phone call to invite to have on -site interview: 4-hour afternoon.
While on-site, I had 3 blocks of interviews: 45 minutes each. Type of questions was related to algorithm, sorting, big O, dealing with large dataset ... Little was asked about previous experience, real-life problems ...
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given two files that has list of words (one per line), write a program to show the intersection.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Google (Poland, ME) in Jan 2024
Interview
Sadly I didn't get through the first tech interview, but the whole process was amazingly well prepared, and everyone was very nice and helpful. They gave all the informations to prepare, and I fell like I want to try that again in a year or so.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
It was a problem, where I had to do recursive approach, I had to clount the size of files, and dictionaries,
Tell me about yourself. What are your hobbies. In technical I was asked questions related to python and java. And also questions related to oops concepts. And few problem solving related questions.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Google in Feb 2022
Interview
A phone screening call from a recruiter for the first round interview.
Second round was a technical interview, including understanding algorithms and data structures and implementation using a programming language.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
DFS algorithm and its implementation with a programming language