The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at YouTube (San Bruno, CA) in Aug 2011
Interview
Started off with a phone interview. I did not hear back for about 3 weeks so I thought they were not interested but then the interviewer called back and scheduled a 2nd phone interview. That went well and they called me in for an on-site-interview. Their campus is really nice and they give free breakfast and lunch. On-site interviewers were professional except one of them. He jumped to technical questions without even introducing himself or asking me about my background.
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
Mainstream database questions and a few Java questions since my background was in Java
Given K sorted buckets which in total have N elements, merge these buckets so that the resulting bucket is also sorted. Also, do it better than O(NlogN).
It was a 3 round interview process with 2 technical rounds and 1 HR round. I was mostly asked DSA focused questions. Trees, heap, graphs and sliding window were mostly stressed for me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Trees, heap, graphs and sliding window were mostly stressed for me.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at YouTube in Oct 2024
Interview
Long and slow. There were four rounds of interviews spanning over a month and they don't get back to you quickly. The interviews themselves were ok and took an hour each.
The interview process was demanding as they asked several questions about my masters degree thesis and on my research projects, which were challenging to remember as I had done these more than 7 years ago.
