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Google Engineering Practicum Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

December 1, 2016
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

It's a two-step process:

  • One short phone call with a recruiter.
  • Two 45-minute coding interviews on Google Docs over Google Hangouts.

Video chat was an opportunity to meet the interviewer and explain my thought process during the interview.

Questions

Given a piece of code, tell me what it does.

Modify the code to find the index of the earliest instance of a number immediately smaller than x if x is not found.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 5 interview experiences for the Google Google Engineering Practicum role in Mountain View, California.

Success Rate

40%
Pass Rate

Google's interview process for their Google Engineering Practicum roles in Mountain View, California is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive100%
Neutral0%
Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Google's Google Engineering Practicum interview process in Mountain View, California.

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