SDE INTERVIEW - Online Application

Online assessments: After Google approves your application (resume/cover letter), you will be required to take an online assessment. Here’s an overview:

• Number of questions: 2
• Time allowed: 90 minutes
• Topics: Typical algorithm/data structure questions

Technical Phone Screen: (30-60 minutes) Google’s interview process begins with a technical phone interview for experienced software engineers. During this stage, tech leads conduct interviews via Google Meet or Hangouts.

Onsite: Onsite is the last stop. On average, 4 to 6 rounds should be finished in a day. Each round should take around 45 minutes and include questions on both system design and code. Interviewees note that more coding is done than system design, and expectations change depending on your skill level.

Behavioral Skills (Googleyness): As part of its hiring process, Google wants to determine whether a potential employee has “Googleyness,” a value that the company uses to describe those who are culturally fit.

Given an unsorted array of integers, sort the array into a wave array.

An array arr[0..n-1] is sorted in wave form if: arr[0] >= arr[1] <= arr[2] >= arr[3] <= arr[4] >= ...