I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Mar 2011
Interview
Difficult to understand what role I was interviewing for, could not talk to potential members in the group, and how I would be slotted into a group was not clear
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a tree of child/parent relationships, write an algorithm to find common parent
The interview lasted about a day, with 5 different interviewers. For each section, the technical questions took most of the part. They also showed me their office in Toronto, which was nice
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What was the most difficult problem you solved during your last job?
it was difficult. lengthy dsa questions. design was ok. needs nice preperation. googlyness also needs preperation. it was difficult. lengthy dsa questions. design was ok. needs nice preperation. googlyness also needs preperation.
One of the interviewer seemed disintered about core tack and focused on AI only. No techinical project wer considered ven if they were highly rated by peers an the community