Frontend Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at YouTube with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 69.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Frontend Engineer roles take an average of 5 days to get hired, when considering 2 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 Frontend Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 50%
Skills test: 50%
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I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at YouTube in Feb 2013
Interview
Probably the worst interview process I have ever had. It started out with a quick response from a recruiter to setup the tech screen. Now I'm not a huge fan of being asked or asking technical questions that have real life implications, but that was the only question I was asked. The question was "Given a telephone write a program that generates all possible permutations of letter strings." Sounds easy... it's not. It also has nothing to do with the job that I would be preforming. I worked on the problem for 35 minutes then talked about some technical topics for another 10 minutes or so. It was extremely difficult understand the person performing the interview (thick accent and he had me on speaker phone).
I never received a call after that. A month latter I got a survey to take about the experience. I let them know how I felt about the process. It was not a positive one.
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I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at YouTube
Interview
Recruiter contacted me via LinkedIn and we set up an initial phone interview the following week. 2 weeks later I had a coding interview with 2 engineers via phone. I had 2 medium to hard problems that I was asked to solve with space-time complexity and followup questions.