Google DeepMind Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

London, EnglandPosted May 2018 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After the recruiter/HR part of the process, my first real interview was a Google Hangouts screen that lasted about two hours.

It was essentially a four-part questionnaire covering CS, calculus and linear algebra, probability, and statistics. The CS and the first two pieces felt closer to what I was comfortable with, but the probability and stats sections were less familiar—still, I made it to the next round.

The next interview was another Hangouts conversation with a prospective teammate for about an hour, centered on software engineering with a specific emphasis on GPU and parallel programming. That round felt like it fit my experience, and it went well—nothing got awkward or unexpectedly hard.

Then I got cut

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