SWE Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Google with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% 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 4 days. I interviewed at Google (Chennai) in Apr 2021
Interview
The interview was online and it started with technical questions. Interviewer was extremely friendly and makes sure you are comfortable. Another 3/4 ish technical rounds and a final hr round which was just basic questions and such.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Google in Oct 2020
Interview
Interviews were 45 minute long with an engineer. Sometimes, engineers had different accents that confused me a little, as English is not my native language. Questions had a context and then you had to choose what data structure to use.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Google in Aug 2019
Interview
Several meetings over phone and computer that involved tacking some open-ended problem, while discussing your thoughts and reasoning along the way. Nothing was exactly hard, but depending on what your interviewer comes up with as a problem it can be a bit vague or light on details, which may give some trouble.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One of the more technical questions was about treating a 2 dimensional array like a map, and given some values that correspond to different types of land, give some statistics about each special type of land (adjacent cells with the same land type would define a group, and some statistics involved the number of individual groups and the average group size for a given type of land.