Google (Senior) Software Engineer interview questions
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Bengaluru) in Sep 2020
Interview
Google will give you sufficient time to prepare. I asked for a month to prepare for my first telephonic round. They also send you sufficient headup material to look for.
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Question 1
Question were asked medioum to hard complexity.
- Wellformedness of parenthesis
- Replace underscore in a String with sombination of 0 and 1
I applied online. I interviewed at Google (San Jose, CA) in Sep 2020
Interview
1 Phone Interview and 1 Virtual Technical Interview
The questions were of medium difficult level involving graphs and trees. Overall the experience was very interactive and friendly. I did my best but missed by a slim margin
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Google (Kiew, ) in Jun 2020
Interview
1. Hr interview with general questions.
2. First tech interview(some common and theoretical questions).
3. Second tech interview(live coding in online editor or google docs with mid - to - hard difficulty algorithmic questions).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Time complexity for common data structures like trees, hash tables, search/sorting e.t.c.