Google Software Engineering Intern interview questions
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I applied online. I interviewed at Google in Dec 2019
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The interview process was a series of 2 separate 45 minute phone interviews consisting of two different leetcode easy/medium questions.
I solved the first one, but ended up not finishing the second one.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Google in Oct 2017
Interview
I got contacted from a Recruiter to do the interviews for a Intern position at Google, after that I had really quick the two coding interviews. One of the reviewers was moving around the room the whole time, so I ended up asking him if I could minimize the camera so that I wouldn't get more nervous by watching him walking around. With the second we could connect to the call but couldn't hear each other so I ended up doing the interview by phone, he was really nice and calm, it was great.
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Question 1
The first one wanted me to program a checkerboard with zeros and ones as the basic approach and with that made he gave me different conditions and rules that I had to program. After that I had to analyse every part of the code and I had to answer questions.
online coding challenge with 2 easy questions followed by a phone interview on google docs with 1 medium level question focused on basic DSA concepts. Got a final round after and proceeded to host matching where no one picked me up