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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1 phone screen. 5 on-site interviews. Phone screen: briefly went through the skills mentioned in my CV. Discussed my favorite programming language. 1 easy algorithmic question which required some experience in backtracking implementation.
IMHO all algorithmic questions at on-site interviews were not any harder than TopCoder Div1 250. Simply read a book on algorithms then solve some TopCoder problems (say, 20-30) and you should feel comfortable on these interviews. I highly recommend coursera algorithmic courses.
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Open-ended questions were the most difficult because it's hard to say how you perform.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at YouTube (Mountain View, CA) in Mar 2012
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I got two interviews, first is phone interview with HR, it was easy. 2nd interview was with a DBA, he is very knowledable, his questions are very detailed, kinda remind me about the ACT test which test bookworms.
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what does "length" field of explain plan tell you.
Failed at phone interview. One question, but I did not figure it out totally
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question: Write a function that takes two numbers and adds them together -- one is an unsigned int, and the other is a (possibly very large) number, represented in int array form. So e.g.
add([1,2,3], 5) --> [1,2,8]