Hey!
I acquired the chance to interview for Google STEP Intern for the 2022 Summer time throughout my 4th Semester of B.Tech. I appeared in a complete of three technical interviews every of 45 minutes. All eliminatory in nature.
Generally, Google takes 2 interviews for the STEP internship however in my case, my 2nd interview didn’t go so effectively, so after consideration and evaluate I acquired a third likelihood interview after 2 months and that led to my choice in Google. STEP internship was one of the best expertise I’ve had up to now.
Interview: STEP Internship Interview is for 2nd-year college students and the subjects they give attention to are firstly robust fundamentals of DSA reminiscent of Sorting, Looking out, String Algorithms, utilizing HashMaps, Stacks, Queues, and aside from this do count on a query on subjects like BFS/DFS, Topological Sorting, Path Discovering questions and questions involving graph algorithm in a 2D Matrix. These had been the frequent subjects they requested questions on within the STEP Interview. The problem stage of questions is usually medium and a few arduous stage from Leetcode/GFG. Candidates are anticipated to be thorough with analyzing algorithms and taking edge instances into consideration.
Throughout my evaluate after 2nd Interview, I used to be knowledgeable to pay additional consideration to edge instances and area complexity. You might be anticipated to provide you with an optimized resolution after which write its code on the shared Google Doc and carry out a dry run if time permits.
The interviewer may ask you to write down two totally different options for a similar query, I used to be requested to optimize an array query on the premise of time and area each and write two codes for it.
Some suggestions:
- STEP Internship course of begins on the finish of November, so begin practising DSA on GFG and Leetcode as quickly as you might be within the third Semester of B.Tech.
- In google interviews, they not often ask about some other idea aside from DSA.
- Get assured in primary ideas and utilizing information constructions correctly to be able to clarify why you used this specific resolution. Be common in google coding competitions as I discovered these questions actually useful, particularly KickStart and CodeJam.
- Be assured to talk up your thoughts and should you’re altering your method make clear it to the interviewer, it’s your job to make the interviewer perceive what you might be pondering and the place precisely this resolution will lead.
- This helped me in my 1st interview, the place even when I wasn’t capable of code the entire resolution attributable to time constraint, the interviewer was happy with the reason and I superior to the 2nd spherical.
- STEP Internship can be a golden alternative to land into Google in 2nd yr solely. Sharing my experiences in order that extra college students come to learn about it.
