YouTube·Software Engineer

YouTube Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Positive

San Bruno, CAPosted Apr 2015 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I was contacted to set up a technical phone screen, and that first step was noticeably more challenging than a casual screening.

The phone interview included two technical questions, both solved with code typed into a shared Google Doc. There weren’t any behavioral questions, and I specifically remember being told I was interviewing for a YouTube role even though my interviewer wasn’t a YouTube employee—just someone doing the assessment so they could evaluate candidates consistently.

After that, I was scheduled for an on-site interview about two weeks later. The whole sequence felt tight and deliberate: quick tech screen first, then a focused on-site process designed to measure how I solved the problems when I was

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