Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Google with 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 56% positive. To compare, the company-average is 61.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 31 days to get hired, when considering 250 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 Senior Software Engineer according to 250 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 29%
One on one interview: 24%
Skills test: 17%
Presentation: 7%
Group panel interview: 7%
Personality test: 6%
Background check: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Other: 2%
Drug test: 2%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Aug 2012
Interview
The recruiter was very helpful initially. There are some weird interviewers please be careful. If you know any questions in advance they will screw you with a hard questions. I came across an interviewer like that. When I answered his first question his face went pale and he told that some people get to know the questions in advance and I want to stump you with a hard question haha. I guess his day was bad. I strongly recommend unless you know what you are going to work on don't apply for google.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
some questions were common like .. serialize and deserialize strings big 0
a variable m/n matrix m,n are variable m*n> 26 filled with letters from A to Z write a program to navigate from one letter to another using < > ^ v the output should print the path from one letter to another. Handle boundary conditions etc
The process consisted of four technical problem-solving interviews and one "Googleness" and leadership round. The first technical interview started off relatively easy but quickly dove deeper into complex edge cases. The second interview increased in difficulty.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
it was 4 problem solving interview and one googleness
Initial intro call, prep time , prep material provisions,
1 Phone Screening by HR, 3 DSA, 1 HLD and 1 Googliness, Team matching and offer negotiation and offer discussion , offer acceptance
After clearing all the interviews in 2 months, here comes the team match. Where no one ever knows when they gonna get a team match call. Even if you get the TM call next comes the HC again no one knows why they reject.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Coding questions from Leetcode google tagged but deep dived into it based on the level.