I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Google in Jan 2019
Interview
The interview process consists of technical interview and team matching. Technical interview consists of 2 interviews with research scientists. Majority of time was spent on describing my prior research and follow-up questions by the interviewers. There was a coding question which is designing an algorithm and describing it verbally.
Team matching stage consists of two calls: one with the research scientist who will supervised me and another with the members of the team (including the manager).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The coding question was about a very simple image processing algorithm.
I was asked what is the main conclusion of a paper I have never read about. So I didn't know the answer. Then we read through the paper together and the interviewer asked me to summarize the paper.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was asked what is the main conclusion of a paper I have never read about. So I didn't know the answer. Then we read through the paper together and the interviewer asked me to summarize the paper.
Tough when I was there they said I would have to do coding interview but I didn’t because I just wanted to see how it is and at the end my computer broke down and then
One research interview with a research scientist to assess research interest and one technical interview with an engineer to assess technical skillset. Each took 1 hour. Then a shorter HR interview.