YouTube·Software Engineer

YouTube Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

New York, NYPosted Mar 2016 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After applying online, I got in touch with a recruiter fairly quickly and ended up scheduling a 45-minute phone screen.

It felt structured: the conversation started with background and resume/project questions, then shifted into one main coding problem. I coded on a shared Google Doc rather than a normal editor, and I remember how the interface mattered enough that it took a little adjustment. One interviewer asked a matrix-style question, and I was also prompted to explain my approach while typing the solution in Java.

The hardest part was keeping the momentum up in that shared-doc coding environment. At times the interview started straight into the problem as if time was tight, and the pacing made me

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