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Google Engineering Practicum Interview Experience

October 1, 2015
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Process

The interview process timeline:

  • From application to hearing back to scheduling the interview: exactly 1 week.
  • From interview day to receiving the result call: 2 weeks and a day.

Interviewers were super nice. There were two video calls.

I had initially thought they would be phone calls, so I wore a casual shirt, pulled all my hair up, and had a messy background. However, the interviewers didn't mind at all.

The first interviewer asked about my resume; he was very friendly. The second interviewer posed a tougher question, which initially caused my brain to freeze. However, I managed to solve it.

The questions were very similar to those found in the "Cracking the Coding Interview" book.

Questions

First interview:

Two arrays of strings, same length. Find out if one is a permutation of the other.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 81 interview experiences for the Google Google Engineering Practicum role in United States.

Success Rate

30%
Pass Rate

Google's interview process for their Google Engineering Practicum roles in the United States is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive75%
Neutral16%
Negative9%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Google's Google Engineering Practicum interview process in United States.

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