Interviewing at Google, Facebook, Foursquare, Dropbox, Fog Creek, etc.

Interviewing at Google, Facebook, Foursquare, Dropbox, Fog Creek, etc.

I applied for internships at several tech companies this year, including Google, Facebook, Foursquare, Dropbox, Twilio, Bloomberg, and Fog Creek. Below, I describe the interview processes of all these companies. To potential applicants, this article will provide all the questions I received in these interviews, and it should be a helpful resource for interview preparation. For all coding phone interviews (where I didn't sign an NDA), I include the actual code written during the interview. I can only provide anecdotal evidence, but I believe my interview experience at these firms provides insight on their hiring philosophies. This is a long post (~3000 words), so feel free to skip the companies that dont interest you. Google Position: Software Engineer Intern Experience: I applied online at the Google website , then received an email from HR about three weeks later setting up two consecutive 50-minute phone interviews (with a 10 minute break in-between).

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