I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Google in Nov 2019
Interview
I was contacted by a Google recruiter. After a brief behavioral phone screen in which she asked about my background and interests, she invited me to apply to the Software Engineering Internship once the job was posted, and provided me with resources on how to prepare beforehand.
A time to take the OA was quickly set up, and it being my first real interview, I pushed back the date further than necessary and over prepared. The questions were very easy (2 questions in 90 minutes) and seemed like a way to weed out applicants with no coding knowledge rather than a real test of coding aptitude.
Soon after I was asked to scheduled 2 phone interviews back to back. The first one went really well, but the second one was significantly more difficult and I was not able to solve the problem in time. Luckily, I was asked to give a third and final phone interview roughly a week after the first two. I scheduled this one for 2 weeks from when I was contacted. 2 weeks later I received a call from my recruiter saying that unfortunately they would not be moving on with my application and to apply again next year.
Throughout, the process the interviewers and recruiters were very helpful and friendly, and recruiters never took longer than 2 business days to respond to any email.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a list of lists as input, return every unique combination that can be made by taking one element from each list.
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Google
Interview
There were atleat two weeks between every stage. The stages were a coding challenge and two interviews. They gave me the second interview after i had a good performence on the first.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In a 2d grid with some number of cells that are filled with x or y and some are empty. Find the distance between the closest x and y.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google in Sep 2019
Interview
The first round were two online assessments, leetcode is a good webpage for practice. If you got them right then some checks your cv and there were two calls.
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