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 a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Jun 2008
Interview
I had two rounds of phone interviews. In the first round the interviewer asked me about my current experience, motivation to work in google etc. I believe this was mostly to get an understanding of who should be interviewing me. In the second round, the interview was mostly technical. I was asked some coding questions, questions about memory management, and data structures.
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I was asked a question about the following. If a user types in a n digit number on the telephone, how do you write a function to deduce if the number constitutes a valid word. For example, if the user enters 123, then can a valid word be made out of (a/b/c) + (d/e/f) + (g/h/i)
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.
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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.
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Coding questions from Leetcode google tagged but deep dived into it based on the level.