657 votes, 55 comments. I've received the rejection email for Google's 2025 summer internship position. I was reached out to back in March 202… More on reddit.com

3rd interview: yes, it's a tiebreaker. You'll be rejected if the feedback from this interview is negative. Delays: they're expected at this point. Not only did they interview more students than usual, but Q4 is also notorious for delays due to everyone scrambling to check in changes before the freezes, annual reviews, planning for next year, and the upcoming holidays. Since you can't enter project matching until the hiring committee re-reviews your packet with the 3rd interview's feedback, these delays will unfortunately affect your project matching experience. For example, if you pass but the decision takes longer to finalize, you might miss the initial wave of calls. More on reddit.com

as an interviewer: - YOU ARE ALMOST guaranteed to get asked trees/graphs. No complex manipulation but def know how to traverse. - Don't worry about fully implement the optimal solution, just make sure your solution works. - Speak while you are thinking, it is very important. Otherwise it either look like you are cheating, or maybe you are thinking about the wrong solution, we will correct you if you go too far into a rabbit hole. - Choose the language you are most familiar with, it doesn't look good on you if you don't know how to use the standard library. - Talk about assumptions, sometimes the question will have assumptions you can make, the interviewers just don't tell you :) More on reddit.com

when is online test generally? It can take weeks to get the OA. I applied in October a couple years ago and didn't get anything until early December (about a 55-day wait). More on reddit.com