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      Software Engineering Residency Interview

      22 Sept 2020
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience

      Other Software Engineering Residency interview reviews for Google

      Software Engineering Residency Interview

      8 Dec 2017
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Dallas, TX
      No offer
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Google in May 2020

      Interview

      The interview process consisted of 1 phone interview and ~3 google doc interviews. The difficulty of the questions got more difficult as I progressed through the process. However, in the I was not able to get the offer.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

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      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through university. The process took 8 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Dallas, TX) in Nov 2017

      Interview

      I was contacted by a recruiter roughly a week after submitting my application. We talked about the Residency Program, and she asked me where I wanted to work first if selected. (I had to choose between Mountainview, NYC, and Seattle.) I was then scheduled for two phone interviews that involved almost entireley technical questions based on my chosen language (I chose Java). Those interviews ran for about 45 minutes each and I had to solve a coding problem, and type the code into a Google doc. I got a call from the recruiter about a week later, and she congratulated me on making it to the next and final round of inteviews. I was then referred to another recruiter at my chosen location (Mountainview), and she scheduled me for a single phone interview, followed by a Google hangouts video call. The third phone interview went exactly the same as the first two, and I didn't have any problems. My last interview (Google Hangouts), was a little less formal and my interviewer was someone who worked in the residency program before. She asked me why I wanted to work at Google, and where I wanted to work. After that I was given a very tough coding challenge that happened to target one of my weak points. I managed to get through it, but I'm convinced it took longer than was expected of a Google caliber employee and the last interview is my reason for not recieving an offer. Overall, I very much enjoyed the experience. All of my interviewers were nice, professional, and extremely knowledgeable. I plan on applying again in a year or so once I've had more practice, because the recruiter said I made it almost all the way.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      I can't go into specifics due to NDA, but its important for you to know the syntax for your selected programming language, and have above average skill/knowledge in data sctructures and algorithms. I highly reccomend using a book such as Cracking the Coding interview and the website Hackerrank.com.
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