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 online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Google (Boulder, CO) in Jan 2010
Interview
The interviewer over the phone asked me to describe an algorithm to find intersection of two arrays of integers. Also asked me to write pseudo code in a shared google docs session. I got the algorithm right the first time, may be not the most efficient right away. But with more prompts from the interviewer I nailed all his questions and gave improved algorithm. I was then asked couple things about what are the hardest things to test. And some other OOP questions. Thats it. He said 'thats good' couple of times. And at the end I felt I would at least get called for on site. But was told within 2 days that they did have anything that fit my profile currently. Not sure what ticks Google !
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.