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Engineer Resident 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 Engineer Resident 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 Engineer Resident 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%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Google
Interview
Recruiter for my university reached out in September and again in October. Decided to start my process in October but then pushed my interviews until after graduation in December. Once December came I got sent the Snapshot. One week later got a call moving to 1st phone interviews. I had two back-to-back phone calls. Then got informed 1 week later again that I passed to google hangout rounds. After the two back-to-back google hangouts a week passed when I was informed I passed HC.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
NDA signed. Just study DS&A and Leetcode. Make sure to say any idea that comes to mind. Interviewers were extremely nice and guided me if I was a bit off.
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