Candidates applying for Sr Software Engineer roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Google overall takes an average of 39 days.
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Google in Apr 2014
Interview
Google continues to play the game of "20 questions" despite the fact that it has admitted that a better approach to finding good employees would be to determine whether the potential employee plays well with others. The Google interviewers are typically young and therefore inexperienced with the interview process, and hence don't know how to interview a candidate effectively.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A system architecture question about how to synchronize temporally a cluster of computers.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Google (New York, NY) in Sep 2014
Interview
I have two recruiters during the process. Both are nice, the interviewers are in general nice. Just take it as a collaboration effort to solve some interesting problems. I went through almost everything, somehow did not have the blessing from the final VP. The recruiter could not tell me why.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basic stuff: relatively practical problems use stack, queue, binary search. None expected.
For example, maximum points on a line given a list of coordinates, 3 sum variants: a+b+c<target integer for a given unsorted into array, RPN. Some design questions, touched consistent hashing.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Google in Aug 2014
Interview
It was long and after 2 phone interviews was schedules for an in person one. And they totally messed up on that last part.
I was first contacted by a recruiter and informed them on the progress of my career and they said google would be certainly interested.
What followed up was 2 phone interviews which I passed with flying colors.