Software Engineer New Grad applicants have rated the interview process at YouTube with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 71% positive. To compare, the company-average is 69.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer New Grad roles take an average of 39 days to get hired, when considering 7 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at YouTube overall takes an average of 26 days.
Common stages of the interview process at YouTube as a Software Engineer New Grad according to 7 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 39%
One on one interview: 28%
Presentation: 17%
Skills test: 11%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at YouTube (Mountain View, CA) in Jan 2018
Interview
Applied through Google's career page. About a week later I was given an online coding exercise which consisted of two 45 minute questions. I continued to the phone interview which I did in Javascript and consisted of three front end questions and two coding questions. A few weeks later I was invited to the on-site interviews. It consisted of five 45 minute interviews and a lunch break where I was paired with an engineer who showed me around.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Cant say, but every questions was within the bounds of their list of possible topics.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at YouTube (Mountain View, CA) in Aug 2018
Interview
Referred by a friend and get a call by HR pretty soon. Write a code sample first and scheduled a phone interview. There is an onsite interview with 4 rounds algorithm question after pass the phone interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1.Classis problem "Number of islands" with a tough follow-up that requires to judge whether exist a single point whose removal will lead to the split of the original one connected component.
2.Classic problem: Top K elements
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at YouTube (San Bruno, CA) in Jan 2018
Interview
Initial contact included a coding challenge and personality assessment. That was followed by a phone interview where coding questions were completed in a shared Google docs document. A couple weeks later, a recruiter contacted me to invite me to an on-site interview. Transportation and lodging were paid for this. The On-site interview consisted of four 45-minute 1-on-1 sessions with four different engineers and an informal lunch session which was not included in consideration. 1-on-1 sessions consisted of one or more coding questions which I designed solutions and wrote actual code for on a large white-board surface (an entire wall of the interview room was white-board). A couple week's later the same recruiter contacted me regarding the decision to not extend an offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a class which is an efficient representation of a sparse vector.