I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Jan 2008
Interview
It was just HR calling and normal interview
questions such as
"tic-tac-toe or paper-rock-scissor, which is a better game" and of course "have you played any Zynga games and what are your favorites". Some follow-up questions include "what metrics are important to measure success of a social game?"
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Jun 2010
Interview
My on-site interview had 5 rounds. The questions were quite simple. I went in expecting to be grilled on a lot of theoretical computer science, but the questions were of a very practical nature. All the interviewers were extremely nice and helpful with giving hints when I got stuck. Overall, a very positive experience even though I didn't get hired.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A lot of whiteboard coding. I found the algorithm & datastructures questions to quite easy. I did badly in one of the coding rounds, mostly because I was not used to somebody looking over when I'm writing code and being conscious, made me make some very silly mistakes.
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Google in Jan 2010
Interview
one telephone, 1 day on-site, 5 engineers, each 45 mins. various problems from the interviewers themselves. Each problem needs to be solved by coding rather than describing the overview. Not specific algorithm to be answered, all are integrated in a virtual problem.
file system design. How to organize the files efficiently. How to search them quickly and how to distinguish the files with same contents but different names.