Product Quality Engineering Intern Interview Experience - Palo Alto, California
Process
I was emailed after submitting my resume online to set up a phone interview. The emailer promptly replied to all my questions.
The first interview was a phone screen. It asked one question on arrays and then a testing question about an office printer.
They went silent for two weeks until another phone interview, which was more behavioral and included another testing question about a GPS.
Next, after a month of silence, I was offered an on-campus interview. This consisted of three interviews back-to-back, followed by a tour of the campus.
If you do well, they ask you back for another round. I didn't, and was given a t-shirt and a thank you. Their cafeteria is great, though!
Questions
Technical questions weren't difficult. Examples include finding the top k values of an array and generating Fibonacci numbers recursively/iteratively.
The testing question was: How would you test a defective Google Docs?
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