Google Senior Software Engineer interview questions
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I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Google (São Paulo, )
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Muito bom , você tem que ser bom , ser focado prestar atenção nas respostas, eles vão escolher o cara que se destacou , se você gosta do que você faz .
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Quais números são utilizados para fazer um software ?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Google in Oct 2017
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Takes way too long, They never got past the question of "What do you want to do?", recruiter after recruiter, I got an offer from another company while Google is still asking the same question, over and over. Expect to spend a lot of time talking with recruiters before getting to a technical interview. Way too slow, this went on for over a month. They are even proud of this. For my purposes, this touchy-feely business didn't work so other companies that just got right to the point were more attractive.
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What do you want to do? That's the only question the really asked me.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Irvine, CA) in Feb 2015
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HR called me and did open ended question on why I wanted to work there, any interesting things I am into etc. I wasn't super prepared because I didn't really care to get the job.
Then I got a phone screen as a technical interview that ignored anything on my resume and asked a brain teaser question into a very easy question, it was a waste of time.
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Question with answer that was basically a functional binary search.