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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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Sydney) in Sep 2021
Interview
Applied via their website and got an email from the recruiter. The recruiter spoke in detail about the whole process. Fixed the first-round interview after 3 weeks. The recruiter also forwarded a lot of information about the interview process.
The question in the code pairing interview was not a very difficult one, but I made some silly mistakes and took a long time to come with a solution. The interviewer was not a very friendly person and kept very quiet for most part of it and didn't really help or nudge even after seeing me struggling!
As expected recruiter called and said about the rejection but he gave lots of tips on preparing for the next time. He said most people join google after multiple attempts and asked me to keep preparing and apply next year(which was nice to hear).
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google in Sep 2020
Interview
Got HR call several days after submitting application, standard questions about myself and why google. First round technical phone call was about a design of a game, I got confused initially when I hear "design a game" as I was not prepared for a "system design" type interview, after a quick clarification, I formulated the problem into a graph problem and successfully solved it, interviewer then went on and asked some graph theoretical questions. The one-site consisted of 3 coding, 1 system, and 1 behavior. Codings were not standard LC questions as they require candidate to define the tasks and input. I completely bombed the system design interview.
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Question 1
Graph, Dynamic Programming, Design of distributed system for a hypothetical google service.
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