I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at YouTube in May 2014
Interview
Contacted by recruiter because of LinkedIn profile. Initial phone screening was set up within a few weeks, and the recruiter provided lots of links and resources to help practice for the interview. Contacted by phone one day after the interview, was told that I didn't pass initial screening, but explained what I needed to improve and encouraged me to apply again next year.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a list of elements arranged in ascending, then descending order (ex. [1, 3, 5, 7, 6, 4, 2]), write a function that returns true if an element x is found in the list.
It was a 3 round interview process with 2 technical rounds and 1 HR round. I was mostly asked DSA focused questions. Trees, heap, graphs and sliding window were mostly stressed for me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Trees, heap, graphs and sliding window were mostly stressed for me.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at YouTube in Oct 2024
Interview
Long and slow. There were four rounds of interviews spanning over a month and they don't get back to you quickly. The interviews themselves were ok and took an hour each.
The interview process was demanding as they asked several questions about my masters degree thesis and on my research projects, which were challenging to remember as I had done these more than 7 years ago.
