Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Google with 3.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 79.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Google in Nov 2014
Interview
I had three phone interviews back to back. The interviewers seemed very friendly. Each interview was technical. The coding questions asked were straight forward. I would say out of the three on of the questions really stumped me. However, the interviewer was very helpful in trying to help me understand the question and produce an answer.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google (San Francisco, CA) in Nov 2014
Interview
Applied though a refferal. Recruiter mailed me and said that there would be 3 interviews (which now suprises me because most of guys here say that thay had only 2 interviews) and she also specified a number of dates and asked to choose one day where It was suitable for me to have the interviews. And she also said that I could have interviews via Hangouts. Then all three interviews were scheduled. I had three interviews in a row with small pauses in 15 minutes between them. And they were at night because my local time differs from a local time in California. Be ready that having interview via Hangouts in some cases may be not very good idea. It seems like Google employees don't have headsets and instead of this they use embedded webcam microphones. My third interviewer put webcam quite far and because of that I could hardly hear them and had to ask to repeat what he said few times during the interview. First interview was quite good, I coded the task and after that interviewer asked to propose a solution for the case when we can use multiple computers, I resolved it. Second interview was quite good as well, Interviewer asked to code a function that he specified. The third interview, as I said before, wasn't so good - I solved just a half of the problem and probably would have solved the other part if interviewer had better microphone because he tried to give some hints but I just didn't understand what he said. For now I'm waiting for some response but because of the last interview I think that I'm not going to have an offer.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Google in Oct 2014
Interview
After applying for one of their on-air hangouts, where I have submitted my CV, a recruiter asked me if I would be interested in an interview process for EMEA.
Of course I have answered affirmatively, so the dates of my 2 interviews were set up( 2 consecutive days).
Both interviews were only about coding, I wasn't asked much about myself, and the interviewers weren't so talkative. The problems were medium to difficult. The duration was 50 minutes for each.I didn't have the opportunity to get to the project interviews.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Find the kth element in the reunion of two sorted arrays.