I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Mar 2010
Interview
Sent a mail to Google recruiter who was prompt to call me. After initial screening, she setup a phone screen with someone in engineering team. At the last moment, the person who was supposed to interview was not available and someone else called me.
Questions were fairly straight forward.
What happens when you type www.google.com in your browser?
What are the things part of HTTP request?
How are headers and body seperated in a HTTP request?
Given a URL which has url-encoded name-values and a variable, return the value for it.
Now modify the function to handle when the name appears multiple times.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
What happens when you type www.google.com in your browser?
Write a function for -- Given a URL which has url-encoded name-values and a variable, return the value for it.
Now modify the function to handle when the name appears multiple times.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Google (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2010
Interview
Was great Phone interview, really liked the interviewer - In person interview was not very impressive. If only they could stress on what exactly they were looking in my skills vs. keep on agreeing with me with what I was talking that would be helpful.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Really can not disclose any questions due to NDA. But a hint! Heap DataStructure is more important than most of us think of!
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Google (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2010
Interview
I had 1 technical screen with a Sr developer at Google. First 30 minutes were discussing software development methodologies, which went well. Second half was spent doing technical design over the phone. Mainly it was a discussion of how to solve problems and what data structures I'd use. I didn't think the questions were very difficult, and I'm pretty sure my solutions were correct, but I guess I didn't do well enough because I was told I wasn't a fit.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe an in-order binary search tree traversal.