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      Java Software Engineer Interview

      Jun 15, 2009
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Mountain View, CA
      Declined offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in May 2009

      Interview

      I applied online. After about 4 weeks, I got a call back from an internal recruiter. An initial step was to fill out a form that serves as a self evaluation of skill sets: rate your top-level language .... Another 2 weeks past, another phone call to invite to have on -site interview: 4-hour afternoon. While on-site, I had 3 blocks of interviews: 45 minutes each. Type of questions was related to algorithm, sorting, big O, dealing with large dataset ... Little was asked about previous experience, real-life problems ...

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Given two files that has list of words (one per line), write a program to show the intersection.
      6 Answers
      16

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      Java Software Developer Interview

      Feb 14, 2024
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Poland, ME
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Google (Poland, ME) in Jan 2024

      Interview

      Sadly I didn't get through the first tech interview, but the whole process was amazingly well prepared, and everyone was very nice and helpful. They gave all the informations to prepare, and I fell like I want to try that again in a year or so.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      It was a problem, where I had to do recursive approach, I had to clount the size of files, and dictionaries,
      1 Answer

      Java Software Developer Interview

      Oct 12, 2022
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Google

      Interview

      Tell me about yourself. What are your hobbies. In technical I was asked questions related to python and java. And also questions related to oops concepts. And few problem solving related questions.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      What is abstract in Java?
      Answer question

      Java Software Developer Interview

      Feb 24, 2022
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Google in Feb 2022

      Interview

      A phone screening call from a recruiter for the first round interview. Second round was a technical interview, including understanding algorithms and data structures and implementation using a programming language.

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      DFS algorithm and its implementation with a programming language
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