Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Google with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 66.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Intern roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Google overall takes an average of 39 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Google as a Intern according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 67%
Personality test: 33%
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I applied online. I interviewed at Google in Oct 2014
Interview
I submitted my resume online, and got my first round on campus interview after a 2 weeks. The interview was 2 one-hour-interview back to back. After a week, I got a response from the HR that I am on to the next step - host matching! I waited for 4 weeks and then gave up because I got another offer.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Jan 2015
Interview
Get referral from inside, takes 1 week to schedule 3 back-to-back phone interviews, asked several technical problems. 2 weeks later, told me decided not to move forward with me.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google in Feb 2015
Interview
I applied online on google careers website and got response in less than two hours. The recruiter asked me a date for three technical phone screen interviews in a row.
The experience was really positive as it made me study and develop data structures from scratch. I didn't receive any feedback about my performance, just a notice that they will not move on with the process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There were questions involving data structures and algorithms - these involved code - and a discussion about scalability.