Great Experience for New Grads
Great Experience for New Grads
- Gets you acclimated to the industry and the Google codebase with a fairly long training period.
- Gets you a breadth of experience since you work on two teams, 4.5 months each.
- You do regular full-time employee work, so your work feels meaningful and impactful.
It's currently a one-year contract, and if you didn't perform well enough, then you won't be brought on as a permanent employee. However, the stats show that over 90% of people get in, or something really high like that.
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I initially applied for full software engineering (SWE) out of college. After a phone interview and an online coding sample, I was flown onsite (in Seattle, per my request) for four one-hour whiteboard interviews. They let me code in a basic text edi
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I applied online and heard back from a recruiter within two weeks. The first step in the interview process involves two back-to-back technical interviews. They provide coding problems in your preferred language, which you type into a Google Doc. They
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Two phone interviews, back-to-back, with two different team representatives. The first felt somewhat rushed, while the second was a bit more calm. I expected easy-to-more-difficult questions, but both questions were on the more difficult side for m
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New York, New York, United StatesNovember 28, 2016I initially applied for full software engineering (SWE) out of college. After a phone interview and an online coding sample, I was flown onsite (in Seattle, per my request) for four one-hour whiteboard interviews. They let me code in a basic text edi
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United StatesDecember 26, 2019I applied online and heard back from a recruiter within two weeks. The first step in the interview process involves two back-to-back technical interviews. They provide coding problems in your preferred language, which you type into a Google Doc. They
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CanadaApril 16, 2017Two phone interviews, back-to-back, with two different team representatives. The first felt somewhat rushed, while the second was a bit more calm. I expected easy-to-more-difficult questions, but both questions were on the more difficult side for m
