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Leadership. Google looks for a particular type of leadership called “emergent leadership.” You'll typically be working in cross-functional teams at Google, and different team members are expected to step up and lead at different times in the lifecycle of a project when their skills are needed. Googleyness (i.e. culture fit). The company wants to make sure Google is the right environment for you. Your interviewer will check whether you naturally exhibit the company's values including: being comfortable with ambiguity, having a bias to action, and a collaborative nature.
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Senior Software Developer Engineer

Interviewed at Google

4.4★
Jun 30, 2021

Leadership. Google looks for a particular type of leadership called “emergent leadership.” You'll typically be working in cross-functional teams at Google, and different team members are expected to step up and lead at different times in the lifecycle of a project when their skills are needed. Googleyness (i.e. culture fit). The company wants to make sure Google is the right environment for you. Your interviewer will check whether you naturally exhibit the company's values including: being comfortable with ambiguity, having a bias to action, and a collaborative nature.

HR Round Questions: 1. When did you complete your B.E.? 2. Graduation year? 3. When did you complete your 12th? 4. Why there is year gap? Was there any back log during your? 5. Do you have any Java certficate? If no then please leave you are rejected. 6. We don't accept one who have backlogs in any year during graduation, if you have any back log during any year of graduation then please leave you are not selected for next Technical Round. Technical Round Questions: 1. What are four pillars of OOPS 2. Give me Real life example of Polymorphism 3. What is difference between Abstract class and Interface. 4. Can we have multi level inheritance in Java 5. What is difference between composition and inheritance 6. What is exception handing 7. What is difference between throw and throws 8. Can we have multiple try block 9. When is memory allocated, when class is created or instance is created or when it is? 10. What is stack 11. What is queue 12. Difference between stack and heap 13. Asked what will you use for debugging other than print statements 14. Difference between error and exception 15. Other than inheritance what you will use to connect to classes? 16. What are Access Modifiers in Java? 17. What is protected? 18. Can subclass access private methods parent class? 19. Can subclass inherit the properties of Parent class if we not load parent class constructor inside subclass? 20. Can class be private? 21. What are collections? 22. What are different types of collections? 23. Difference between array and heap? 24. Can we add duplicates to Set? 25. Can we add duplicates to Array? He asked me to write a program to check whether string was Palindrome or not? Later he asked me some nonsense questions which he himself was not understanding, for those questions I tried my best level to give the information. This Technical Round was of 80 to 90 minutes long. Didn't given 3rd round, so sorry I dont know any questions of it.
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Software Engineer - Java Developer

Interviewed at Cross Country Infotech

4.4★
Feb 11, 2023

HR Round Questions: 1. When did you complete your B.E.? 2. Graduation year? 3. When did you complete your 12th? 4. Why there is year gap? Was there any back log during your? 5. Do you have any Java certficate? If no then please leave you are rejected. 6. We don't accept one who have backlogs in any year during graduation, if you have any back log during any year of graduation then please leave you are not selected for next Technical Round. Technical Round Questions: 1. What are four pillars of OOPS 2. Give me Real life example of Polymorphism 3. What is difference between Abstract class and Interface. 4. Can we have multi level inheritance in Java 5. What is difference between composition and inheritance 6. What is exception handing 7. What is difference between throw and throws 8. Can we have multiple try block 9. When is memory allocated, when class is created or instance is created or when it is? 10. What is stack 11. What is queue 12. Difference between stack and heap 13. Asked what will you use for debugging other than print statements 14. Difference between error and exception 15. Other than inheritance what you will use to connect to classes? 16. What are Access Modifiers in Java? 17. What is protected? 18. Can subclass access private methods parent class? 19. Can subclass inherit the properties of Parent class if we not load parent class constructor inside subclass? 20. Can class be private? 21. What are collections? 22. What are different types of collections? 23. Difference between array and heap? 24. Can we add duplicates to Set? 25. Can we add duplicates to Array? He asked me to write a program to check whether string was Palindrome or not? Later he asked me some nonsense questions which he himself was not understanding, for those questions I tried my best level to give the information. This Technical Round was of 80 to 90 minutes long. Didn't given 3rd round, so sorry I dont know any questions of it.

1) Given a singly linked list and an integer K, reverse the nodes of the linked list in groups of size K and return the modified list. If the number of nodes is not a multiple of K, then the remaining nodes at the end should remain as they are.
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Software Engineer - Java Developer

Interviewed at Apolis

4.3★
Oct 14, 2025

1) Given a singly linked list and an integer K, reverse the nodes of the linked list in groups of size K and return the modified list. If the number of nodes is not a multiple of K, then the remaining nodes at the end should remain as they are.

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