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Resident Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Google with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 68% positive. To compare, the company-average is 61.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Resident Engineer roles take an average of 56 days to get hired, when considering 28 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Google overall takes an average of 38 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Google as a Resident Engineer according to 28 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 44%
Presentation: 27%
One on one interview: 16%
IQ intelligence test: 7%
Skills test: 2%
Other: 2%
Drug test: 2%
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I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Google
Interview
Contacted by the recruiter. She set up a call with 2 back-to-back google hangout call with the engineers. I thought I did horribly as I wasn't able to write up the code in the given time; I was only able to identify that its a BFS problem and what data structure will be most efficient. Somehow I made it to the next round and had another google hangout call with a different engineer. This time I was able to solve the problem and improve it. I got rejected after few days. The whole process until I got rejected took a month.
I applied through college or university. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Google in Jan 2017
Interview
The interview process was a bit long. It involve an code sample, and then four phone screens-- first round one, second round two back to back, and third round one. After each round, it took the recruiter about a week to two weeks to give feedback and the okay to advance to the next round. The difficulty of the questions depended on the interviewer. Some interviewers were much friendler than others.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Signed and NDA but involved algorithms and data structures
A recruiter will reach out to contact you for how the interview process goes. Another Googler will arrange interview times with you. The interview process goes through two 45-min phone interviews with Google engineers. Wait a week before moving up in the interview process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Interview questions were similar to Leetcode interview questions.
I applied online. I interviewed at Google in Dec 2019
Interview
2 back to back phone calls, in which I talked through solving a coding assessment. Both questions were reasonable but didn't find the interviewer helpful. It wasn't made clear what questions they wanted you to address while solving the problem