Google interview questions

March 16, 2006

Google interview questions

Posted in: Google

Today I had the full monty of Google interview training which makes a Googler a member of the Hiring Squad (comes with free t-shirt!).

I've had quite a few people ask me about the interview for tips etc. There's not really much I can say on this besides all the usual things like be well rested etc. I must admit, I didn't realise there would be four interviews strung together when I took mine.

Here's some info on the process. Apart from an initial phone screen by the technical recruiter the engineering interviews are conducted by engineers: two phone interviews then the famous four hour back-to-back experience. So even just for a potential hire that six engineers doing 45min interviews (in practice most of mine were longer), plus all the time writing feedback, etc. Pretty demanding on us too.

The interview training covers the range of areas we're looking for from coding ability to cultural fit, and how to structure questions that probe for these areas. We even built our own questions as part of the process, based on what we thought were particularly important aspects for the positions we'd be hiring for.

The interviews I had were hard, but fair, and having done the full training I can see how that was built in.

FWIW, there are sample questions online easily available. I haven't seen any of the questions I was asked as an SRE online however, so don't worry, you won't be bored ;-)

Posted by Paul Makepeace at March 16, 2006 04:48 | TrackBack

Comments

Is it any different for Product Marketing Position? I have a phone interview coming up with Google for the same. Would you happen to have any tips for this.

Posted by: Aparnaa at April 9, 2006 18:10

Is it any different for Product Marketing Position? I have a phone interview coming up with Google for the same. Would you happen to have any tips for this.

Posted by: Aparnaa at April 9, 2006 18:10

Is it any different for Product Marketing Position? I have a phone interview coming up with Google for the same. Would you happen to have any tips for this.

Posted by: Aparnaa at April 9, 2006 18:10

my name is Gaurang Parekh
i am a computer engineer.
looking for a job
have dreame to do hard work at google
how can i get job at google ?
skills: asp.net,C#,C,C++
give me tips abt interviewe and as a programmer which skils require in google programmer?
please ,reply me .

Posted by: gaurang at February 21, 2007 05:27

Thank you for the post. Gaurang, I have run across http://www.technical-interview.com which contains some questions and answers from real interviews. I am not sure if it will be helpful for you.

Posted by: Goole Guy at February 27, 2007 02:34

I have a Google interview coming up for their PSO organization - Technical Solutions Engineer. Do you have any idea what sort of questions are being asked for this?

Posted by: Gaurav at April 28, 2007 05:51

hello sir ,i m an electrical engineering student in 2nd year ,nd i hv gr8 intreast in computer .............for getting job in top IT compny like google,microsoft,tower research what should i do???

Posted by: abhi at September 21, 2007 11:01

hi sir,
i am doing engineering in computer science...i am very interested to join google...but i dont know what to prepare for can u suggest me what to prepare for

Posted by: praneeth at December 7, 2007 09:00

I am a network engineer. Plz guide me to get a job in google. I like the google ways . I m same innovative.

Posted by: K taneja at December 15, 2007 20:24

I just did a little research after eyeballing a google position in wa, resulting from a boring regress to mainframe code where I'm at. Everybody wants to work at google, lot of interesting posts out there, must be quite the competition.

Kansas City shuffle. They move right, and we...

Make an empty-minded post on an old blog. 1,500 resumes/day? Wow.

Posted by: Rod Tidwell at January 10, 2008 21:05

I found some more interviews conducted by Google,

here they are..

hi,

some more posts on interviews conducted by Google,

Interview At Google
Google Top Interview Questions ( around 30 With Solutions)
Google Interview for Freshers

Posted by: Chaitanya at March 18, 2008 07:00

Hi,
I interviewed for the associate product manager position at google, you can read it up here

http://ferozeh.com/Interviews/Google/google.php

Posted by: jhon at June 25, 2009 07:38

Hi,

I have a telephone interview coming up with Google in the next few days.

Your posting is about 3 years old so I am not sure 1. if you still work at Google
2. if you would know what sorts of questions they ask for an internal recruiter with them?

Thanks in advance for any help.

I found your piece quite interesting.

All the best

Posted by: Marco at November 23, 2009 21:53