YouTube·Software Engineer

YouTube Software Engineer interview experience

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

My journey started with a phone interview about a month after applying, and the recruiter was willing to offer hints during the coding.

The question itself wasn’t described as insanely hard, but I made an error on the first problem. Even so, I was moved ahead to an on-site process with four technical rounds and a lunch conversation that was non-technical.

At the on-site, the vibe was intense and throughput-focused: it felt like they expected me to answer as much as possible across multiple hour-long blocks, and the questions leaned toward coding and algorithm decomposition. One phone screen included Java-focused questions that progressed from basics like data types into time complexity and sorting, which set the tone for the

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