Candidates applying for Sr Software Engineer roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Google overall takes an average of 39 days.
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Good, thorough and fairly difficult. But fair.
I had two phone screens a few weeks apart.
After that, I had virtual onsite interviews.
1 behavior
3 coding
1 design
The coding interviews are challenging, but if you practice problem solving, you will feel confident.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Google (Dublin, Dublin) in Dec 2021
Interview
Interview was quite long and waiting times were too high. I did waste a lot of time!
Was aiming at L5 but after first round got an offer for L4, after another round of interviews I got the green light for team interview. Interviewed with HM and another Senior Engineer in the team (in two different days) and after another two weeks or so got the answer from Hiring Committee that I was being given an offer for L4 which I did not accept.
I applied online. I interviewed at Google in Dec 2021
Interview
Video call interview - standard programming question. Needed to write a unit test and proved my solution worked. (had to write a topological sort for the test) I did it in time.
I never got a callback after that. I thought i nailed it. The HR (recruiting for Taiwan) didn't even reply to my email. This is the second time a google HR (the other was a US recruiter) just flaked on me.
I think i'm done with this company forever.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Typical algorithm question on CS - you need to know graphs for this.