Process
Great Experience!
Without any doubts, one of the best processes among all the big techs. You have a personal recruiter assigned that follows you during all the interview phases and gives you feedback by call, not by email, which I value a lot.
The phone screening was not so tricky. I had a problem divided into sub-pieces with increasing difficulty, which helped me relax.
On the other hand, the virtual onsite was very tough, with questions assessing your algorithmic and data structure knowledge in depth. I solved all the questions optimally but forgot to validate input on the first.
Questions
Don't spoil the questions! Google stops asking anything that leaks, and it's hard to come up with cool questions!
Prepare on graphs a lot; 3 out of 4 questions were about that. The other one looked like dynamic programming, but could be solved optimally by binary searching the solution space.
Do your homework on LeetCode and similar platforms. Make sure to know all the pathfinding algorithms, binary search, bidirectional BFS, and DFS.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 16 interview experiences for the Google Software Engineer role in Paris.
Success Rate
Google's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Paris is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Google's Software Engineer interview process in Paris.
Google Work Experiences
- 3.0Incredible benefits, boring jobSoftware Engineer • Former EmployeeMountain View, California, United StatesSeptember 18, 2022Pros: Really good infrastructure for pretty much everything: food, fitness, arts, games, maker spaces. Working on the main Mountain View campus is probably the closest I can imagine to a utopian vision of a socialist society, where there's a ton of stuff available for anyone to use.Cons: The actual work sucks. It's just a pointless treadmill of working on other people's fever dreams that get canceled or shuffled around every six months. I quit because I realized if I stayed there any longer, I would have absolutely no actual work experience to point to if I ever wanted to leave and get hired anywhere else. The entire company's hiring strategy is just to hire as many people as possible (lest another one of the tech giants picks them up), and let them try to figure out how to be useful (and then end up making ten competing chat apps). But if you're looking for something well-compensated, stable, and with a lot of great perks, you can do a heck of a lot worse.
- 1.0OyaSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeCalifornia City, California, United StatesSeptember 18, 2023Pros: Google was pretty good, but I was glad to leave.Cons: In-person requirement to work. Can't work from home.
- 4.0Excellent place to workSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeApril 27, 2024Pros: Great people, good work, good perks.Cons: Too much process. Can move faster.
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