Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at YouTube with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 79% positive. To compare, the company-average is 69.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 35 days to get hired, when considering 41 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 according to 41 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 44%
One on one interview: 21%
Skills test: 18%
Presentation: 5%
Background check: 4%
Group panel interview: 4%
Personality test: 3%
Drug test: 1%
Other: 1%
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at YouTube in Nov 2018
Interview
First interview was with a recruiter who reached out to me through LinkedIn. Typical interview where I talked about myself and my experience, as well as had the chance to ask some questions.
The second interview was with a software engineer. The coding challenge had to be done in Google doc. Question was fair I expected it to be a lot more difficult but was amazed that it was pretty average. After i finished the problem I had to give the time and space complexity of my algorithm. In all i thought the interview was fair. Still haven't received an answer on whether I am moving on to the next stage.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Do a lot of leet code and learn how to speak your thoughts out loud
It was a 3 round interview process with 2 technical rounds and 1 HR round. I was mostly asked DSA focused questions. Trees, heap, graphs and sliding window were mostly stressed for me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Trees, heap, graphs and sliding window were mostly stressed for me.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at YouTube in Oct 2024
Interview
Long and slow. There were four rounds of interviews spanning over a month and they don't get back to you quickly. The interviews themselves were ok and took an hour each.
The interview process was demanding as they asked several questions about my masters degree thesis and on my research projects, which were challenging to remember as I had done these more than 7 years ago.