Google Software Engineer Internship interview questions
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Software Engineer Internship applicants have rated the interview process at Google with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 71.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer Internship roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Google overall takes an average of 43 days.
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The interviewer asked for an introduction and quickly moved to the coding question. The question was based on graphs. It was a modified version of dijks tra algo rithm. After solving this next question was given which was based on dynamic programming.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Google in Jul 2023
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2 45-minute technicals with a FT Engineer. The first interviewer didn't show up, so it was chaotic trying to get a hold of my recruiter to figure out how to proceed. I was offered a third interview, probably because the review committee was on the fence. During my third interview the interviewer was distracted on a different tab or looking at their phone.
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Tree construction and traversal, traveling knapsack-like problem, DP. Leetcode medium-hard.
I have not prepared well. I was unable to solve any of the two problems given. The teat was of moderate to hard level. Don't give google test without preparation. It will be totally waste of time and effort.
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