I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Google in Sep 2009
Interview
First a recruiter contacted me via phone and email and asked for some basic information. She explained their hiring standard is looking for good generalist, so I'll be interviewing with several engineers from different teams. Then she arranged one round of phone screening with a person, who asked about my resume questions and some simple programming and design questions. Then next stay she contacted me for arranging an onsite. The onsite was with 6 engineers, from 3 year googler to googler from start-up, including a very senior engineer/researcher. They are all very kind and interview is quick-paced. On average each asked 3-5 questions covering algorithm, coding, knowledge, experience, design, and my research. They passed on a piece of paper to avoid asking same questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Out of my skillset, which aspect did I consider as my primary skill and they should consider a primary reason why they hire me.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google in Sep 2009
Interview
I applied on their website and they found a position relevant to my education and courses. They made me schedule a phone interview. The interview was for about 45 minutes and was heavy on the technical side. I managed to answer 75% of the questions but they declined my candidacy after the phone round. It took them 4 weeks to get back to me with the results.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you were given the land prices in the Bay Area, what would you pick, the mean or the median? Why?
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Google (Seattle, WA) in Sep 2008
Interview
I got a call to schedule a initial phone interview. It was scheduled in a week, but the questions they asked me was somewhat unanswerable under my knowledge. So I failed.
I want them to go little easy on the interview and try to get to know the candidate a bit more than just asking the whole bunch of difficult questions. I don't like that!!!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a time-ordered log of user visits to web pages find the most common 3-page sequence