J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris 3 mois. J'ai passé un entretien chez Google (Mountain View, CA) en mai 2016
Entretien
Overall process took 14 weeks
The recruiters were very friendly and helpful.
Week 1 Recruiter emails to set up phone screen
Week 2 Recruiter phone screen: informal phone call with recruiter to discuss your current projects and skills
Week 4 Coding sample: they give you link to 2 coding problems you have to solve in 60 mins
Week 9 One phone interview with google docs: this is where most of the filtering of candidates happen. I delayed this for 4 weeks to review. Interviewer was helpful and was not intimidating. Make sure you walk through your thinking and not go straight to coding. 2 problems, was not able to finish the 2nd one but I told him my approach. Make sure to engage the interviewer throughout the 45 minutes. They will give you a broad problem, so ask questions!
Week 12 Onsite interviews: the most fun interview experience I've ever had! They're campus is awesome. They book you to this very nice hotel with shuttle to the campus. They pay for hotel and flight, reimbursements for food and ground travel expenses.
2 interviews in the morning, lunch with another engineer (not an interview), 2 interviews in the afternoon. First 2 interviewers were really friendly. 3rd interviewer was kind of intimidating. He was on his laptop don't know if he's taking notes or doing his own thing. I was still able to engage him a little bit and was still able to come up with a solution. 4th interview was where I screwed up. The interviewer was from an Asian background and I could not understand most of the words she was saying. I wasn't prepared for the question. It was with a lot of analysis and math.
All interviewers take pictures of your code for every progress and fixing of bugs you make.
Approach to all interviews: ask questions, talk through your approach, start coding at the same time talking to what you're writing, do testing
Week 14 Recruiter called me they cannot give me an offer. I was kind of expecting this because I knew I have to nail all 4 interviews. They cannot disclose any information regarding the decision
I may not have received an offer, but going on-site was such an amazing and memorable experience!
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
data structures, algorithms, time complexity
trees, hashmaps, lists, strings, graphs, coding design, OOP principles, searchs, sorting, traversals
they give you a study guide. make sure to review all of those.
Cracking the Code Interview and Hackerrank definitely helped me prepare
J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 2 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Google (Bengaluru) en déc. 2025
Entretien
Recently bombed an interview.
Started of the interview with introduction and I could not lift my profile after that. I applied for Software Engineer University Grad and they asked about CS core at the end.
Final result : rejected
J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 2 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Google
Entretien
A 45 minute phone screen. The interviewer was very rude and did not even give me a chance to finish most of my sentences. I assume that after the phone screen, if I moved on to the next round, there would have been a day of on-site interviews.
J'ai postulé via la recommandation d'un employé. Le processus a pris 3 mois. J'ai passé un entretien chez Google (San Jose, CA) en nov. 2018
Entretien
Got an interview through an internal reference. The first round was an online code test, which was 2 questions in around 30 minutes. The second round was a phone screen, where I was asked 3 algorithm questions. The third round was another phone screen which was 2 algorithm questions. Both phone screens were 45 minutes. I passed both phone screens and was called for an onsite interview, which is 4 interviews with 4 different people. Each one is 45 minutes and the interviewer asks 1-2 algorithm questions.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Questions involving arrays and dictionaries for the phone screens. Graphs and 2D arrays for the onsite.