Google was pleasant. Everyone was very professional. Their coding questions were unique, yet they all were needing a very straight forward CS 101 algorithm and

Google was pleasant. Everyone was very professional. Their coding questions were unique, yet they all were needing a very straight forward CS 101 algorithm and data structures. Nothing tricky, but I did have to think about the problem for a few minutes to have the insight that it wasn’t tricky. A lot of software engineering is finding the simple solution in what looks like a hard problem, and I thought their questions simulated that well. Their design questions were pretty standard but it was a good back and forth conversation, not an interrogation. It seems clear that google gives everyone at least some training on how to conduct good interviews.