Google Interview Experience For SDE Internship

Step 1: Resume Screening

Firstly, resume screening is the initial part of Google’s hiring process which is more or less similar to any other corporate job. At this stage, your resume will be looked at by recruiters who check its technical requirements, education and experience to make sure that you suit the role you applied for.

• SUGGESTION 1: Display the skills and traits that Google looks/requires in a candidate directly.
• SUGGESTION 2: Be specific about what you achieved; Use Bullet Points.
• SUGGESTION 3: The language should be professional structured and straight to the point.

Step 2: Phone Screening Round

In phone screening rounds, you’ll receive a call from the recruiter who will brief you a bit on the interview process and what position you are applying for. The duration of an interview ranges between half an hour to one hour depending on the kind of job one applied for.

For Technical roles, such as software engineering, if Your first phone screening goes well, you Can expect additional rounds. These are technical phone screening which involves phone coding challenges to test basic problem-solving and data structuring skills, such as DOM manipulation, or CSS. If your technical phone interview goes well you may be asked to complete a take-home coding project.

Step 3: The Onsite Interview Round (4-5 ROUNDS)

On-site interviews usually consist of 4-5 rounds, in which two things will be Given :

• Your fit for the selected role / The Role For Which You Have Applied.
• Process, teamwork, and culture fit (firm-specific fit).

GENERALLY FOR TECHNICAL ROLES TWO TYPES OF INTERVIEW PROCESSES ARE THEIR :

CODING ONSITE INTERVIEW ROUNDS: A Whiteboard-Based Data Structure And Algorithm Round Which consists of Some Questions Which Are Harder But Not Impossible. Some Questions That They Have Asked Me :

• Sub Matrices With Sum 0;
• BST Queries.
• Clone Graph.

System Design Onsite interviews are all about coming up with high-level design architectures for real-life products. The more experienced you are, the more of these interviews you may have.

Hiring Committee Reviews

Some candidates move directly to the hiring committee at this stage while others go through a team-matching phase. The team matching phase is where you will sit down with potential managers and discuss the teams in that company (the one you would join) and the work that comes with it. When a team wants to hire you, they inform your recruiter who adds this to your portfolio which goes to the hiring committee.

Executive Reviews And Offers from Google

After everyone has had their say at the hiring committees’ meeting, an executive reviews all offers. Yes, there is an executive at Google who examines each offer made by the hiring committees before they reach candidates.

You see if I could give my tip today :

Think about how your experiences about traits for Google and also identify personal values that make you happy when you reflect on them and then choose those stories that best communicate such traits/qualities. You should be able to show why recruiters should consider your values and past experiences as a perfect match.