The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Ann Arbor, MI) in Jan 2019
Interview
A recruiter emailed me about three weeks ago after I submitted my application. She scheduled me to have two technical phone interviews the next Tuesday.
A day before the technical phone calls one of the interviewers canceled. The next day, the second interviewer ghosted me and the recruiter emailed to apologize.
Off to a great start.
We rescheduled to Thursday and they actually called this time. I solved the problem asked in the first interview and managed to solve the second problem.
I will not be continuing the process and here is why.
Both of the interviewers did not ask my name, what I am interested in, why do I want to work at google or even simply “hi how are you”. It was the coldest interview experience I have had and I’ve interviewed with multiple awkward fin tech companies! They checked if I could hear them then copy and pasted a coding problem.
At the end of the interview I asked both of them “why google”. The first interviewer said it pays well. The second said it is the best company. How can you be that shallow?!
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Given points representing cities, find the max cities you can travel too if you have to move at least once up and to the right each time.
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.
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
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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