Has anyone interviewed for an internship at Google? This is for a BS level position. How was your experience? How would you compare it to interviews at other companies like Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, etc? I have a pretty good grasp of CS fundamentals -- the essential/common algorithms and data structures. Any tips?
Oh yeah, I've read Yegge's post about "Get that job at Google" :-)
Here's some straight dope from an insider, Steve Yegge: "Get That Job At Google".
Steve Yegge's, Get That Job At Google, is a good resource. It is aimed at full-time employees, not interns. But honestly, I think most of it still applies.
I just did an intership phone interview yesterday. It was very very easy. He asked me only one question:
1- Write a class that takes a series of integers from a generator that generates numbers one by one. Include two functions: 1- Sum 2- Average. Although It was very easy, I was really stressed and I did not do very well :(. waiting for their feedback
Mine was very easy too. In first interview they asked simple DB design questions and a bit about OOP basis. In the second I had to code a program to generate al possible ways to pay a product given infinite number of coins of the types from an array.
When I was asked to solve something simple then they start to complicate it step by step, after that they asked for optimization.