Google (Senior) Software Engineer interview questions
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I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Google (Indore) in Jan 2019
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It consist of 3 round mainly competitive coding,then code writing on paper,followed by HR round. The HR round is qiut tougher than the other two . But the overall process was pretty good and interesting
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Why you want to join Google rather than other companies
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Google (Los Angeles, CA) in Jan 2017
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Friendly staffs. Nobody in the working areas. A lot of perks, including dinner.nice environment. Mostly coding in algorithms and discussions on algorithms .some mathematical questions and great lunchtime . Trees and hash tables
The interviewers are nice and friendly. There were a lot of rounds of phone interview, which could be a little frightening because sometimes the accents and not being able to see the faces make it difficult.