Just had a phone interview/screen session w/Google and....
...I did ok I'm interviewing for a Software Engineer in Test position. Im not interested in test, but I'm hoping if i get this it will open doors into development at Google for me. In any case, SETs get to do a lot of dev it sounds like, it's not QA which is much more high level (and the exact opposite of what im trying to do)
anywyas, it lasted a little less than an hour. Basically you use this program called Writely (it's a shared whiteboard so the person interviewing can see the code you write). So he was asking me questions over phone, and the coding questions I had to write out in this program. He asked me to create a class/interface for someone who would want to implement a binary tree. So that was simple. Then he asked me to write a function to compare two binary trees. Well, this should have been easy, but I blanked on the spot. He ended up changing the question to "write a function to traverse a binary tree" as i was working on it.
I was nervous and couldnt think what I had to do, even though it was really simple. Fortunately he helped me out and gave me hints and stuff, but I totally forgot to do it RECURSIVELY until he told me...and then I got it. But he was looking for recursion from the beginning, and I totally blanked until he finally had to tell me. bleh.
*edit*
this guy was just a screener, so he takes notes of the interview, then gives them to a committee who decides if they want to continue the interview process.
Last edited by MrJiggyFly : 01-23-2007 at 11:21 PM.
thanks guys, I'll need it. Google got just short of 1.2 million applications last year, and just 1/500 of those (2200) got a job, so its a looong shot.
Hope you get it... We need a .net google insider to save .net members once google takes over the world.
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it's not easy to get an interview there. If you just send in your resume, that's not enough. Not to mention, if your GPA is below like a 3.7 they probably won't even sniff the rest of your resume, assuming you already got someone to go as far as reading your GPA (my undergrad wasnt even close, like a 3.2, and my graduate is more like a 3.6). I had to do a little networking to get my resume to the right people.
but hey, if i somehow manage to land this gig, free breakfast/lunch and dinner for everyonE!!!
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I'm interviewing for a Software Engineer in Test position. Im not interested in test, but I'm hoping if i get this it will open doors into development at Google for me. In any case, SETs get to do a lot of dev it sounds like, it's not QA which is much more high level (and the exact opposite of what im trying to do)
i'm root'in for ya!!!
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