I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Gemini
Interview
Started by talking to a recruiter followed up by a phone screen with a senior engineer. Following the phone screen was a take-home coding challenge. The final round consisted of 3 onsite interviews and a talk with the hiring manager.
Overall the interview process was very pleasant. The take home challenge offered a lot of flexibility to demonstrate software engineering skills instead of just white boarding skills. My conversations with the engineers were rich with technical discussion and offered plenty of opportunities to get to know the kind of work Gemini is doing.
Put me into 5 rounds of interviews to be rejected. It was mixture of easy and medium difficulty questions. Timing for interviews was bad where some of it was mid night or somewhere between mid night and morning.
Recruiter call, HM interview, onsite
- got contacted by recruiter only to get ghosted after he told me there were openings for multiple teams. doesn't look like they have their openings for engineering teams anymore anyway but i never got a proper update
Overall the interview process was professional.
Team manager was frank and honest about the workload.
Had a take home assignment.
Interviewers take good attention in analysing the skillsets I have.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
My experiences, some DSA and System Design questions.
Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Gemini with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 31% positive. To compare, the company-average is 35% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 18 days to get hired, when considering 16 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Gemini overall takes an average of 24 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Gemini as a Software Engineer according to 16 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 31%
One on one interview: 17%
Skills test: 17%
Group panel interview: 11%
Presentation: 9%
Background check: 6%
Drug test: 6%
Personality test: 3%
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