I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Google in Aug 2019
Interview
Several meetings over phone and computer that involved tacking some open-ended problem, while discussing your thoughts and reasoning along the way. Nothing was exactly hard, but depending on what your interviewer comes up with as a problem it can be a bit vague or light on details, which may give some trouble.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One of the more technical questions was about treating a 2 dimensional array like a map, and given some values that correspond to different types of land, give some statistics about each special type of land (adjacent cells with the same land type would define a group, and some statistics involved the number of individual groups and the average group size for a given type of land.
It was interesting to see the way that the team was able to make the candidates more comfortable. The process was fast and interesting in order to make the candidate feel more relaxed
It was online and fairly standart. You will be sent a Google Meet link after scheduling with your interviewer. You will be asked one or two coding questions for STEP and SWE Intern positions. If you pass the technical rounds, you will be advanced to the team matching phase. As a tip, team matching is unfortunately not a guarantee and you should definitely continue looking for other opportunities as long as you don't have an offer in your hand.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
It was related to DP. It was specifically 1D. Cant give more details.
it was in 2024, 2 rounds of interview were there, whether you get second one or not depend on your performance, i got the first one only and did not get the invite for the second one