Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at YouTube as 100% positive with a difficulty rating score of 2.75 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Auxiliar and Técnico rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Testador De Software and Técnico roles were rated as the easiest.
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I applied through college or university. I interviewed at YouTube in Oct 2014
Interview
I was contacted about a month later after career fair, and was scheduled for a phone interview. The recruiter was quite professional. I was asked about general data structure questions like what is a hashmap, the time complexity of operations of hashmap and bst, when you prefer bst to hashmap, what is java gc. Then I wrote a small program to remove duplicate strings in a file on google doc.
Then I received a call from recruiter next day telling me to prepare for an onsite interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
generally not hard. you have to be clear with basic data structures
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at YouTube in Mar 2014
Interview
a recruiter contact me online and we made a phone interview a couple weeks later. when i passed the phone interview, the next step is on-site, it took about 2 weeks.
Apply it on google, receive the response from recruiter after a weekend and has a 45-minutes Technical interview after three weeks. This was my first interview. I was too nervous and interviewer had an accent, so I waste a lot of time to understand the question itself. The question is to design a class to realize three functions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
It is hard to understand the question in a short time when the interviewer has an accent for your first few interviews.