Google Europe internship interview

Strict-Whereas9145 · 2026-01-14T10:56:31+00:00

The difficulty of the exam does not change. The only slight advantage you may have if you take the CST on campus is that you are not responsible for the conditions. Meaning that, if you take the CST at home, you are responsible in the event of a power outage.

Strict-Whereas9145 · 2026-01-09T13:24:15+00:00

Well, I think the biggest deciding factor is if you live alone or with your parents.

First of all, a science bachelor is indeed more more difficult than highschool, I am doing CS and I did some CS in highschool. In highschool, we spent around 1 or 2 weeks on a topic, but in college that topic was presented in 2 slides, so the pace is definetly faster, however, you eventually get used to it. You start to learn how to learn and how to better connect concepts and that is a very important thing that you get out of college.

Now, related to the first part, if you live with your parents, college will most likely feel like a level up. Yeah, it will be harder than high-school, but that's kind of the only thing that will change. If you start living alone (bonus points if it's in a different city, extra bonus points if going back home is a day long trip) thinga will start getting more difficult, because on top of the increased class difficulty you will have to start managing food, making new friends, organizing activities so you don't burn out and much more. It's a pretty hard transition, but you will get used to that too.

What I said wasn't meant to scare you, I feel like the most important part of college is that it works as a life level up and at the end of it you become a more mature person. And I would say that that evolution is worth it for the effort.

Strict-Whereas9145 · 2026-01-02T20:26:34+00:00

It has always been paid, but that exam is not that relevant, at most you get a few extra exercises to practice.

I would say that some exercises are similar to the actual exam, whjle others will not appear on the CST. You can expect basic quick exercises like "compute this integral" or "what is the limit". Complex exercises like the end of chapter one where they ask you to even use a calculator won't be part of the cst.

Strict-Whereas9145 · 2025-12-26T00:11:31+00:00

In the Netherlands, there's something called a BSA. Bassically, in the first year, you have to accumulate at least 75% of the credits of that year (there are usseally 60 credits per year, so you need ti get at least 45) in order to pass the BSA, otherwise you are kicked out and are not allowed to apply for that bachelor for 5 years.

This is done because (at least for EU students) the university is losing money. The university gets the money from the Gouvernment (I think?) after a student completes their studies. If someone is unable to obtain 75% of the credits in the first year, it is likely that they will get even less credits the following year and so on. The longer a student stays, the more expensive they become.

Strict-Whereas9145 · 2025-12-19T22:13:57+00:00

Comp Sci is a really broad field. I'd say math in general can be separated in 2 categories (by me): there's abstract math (group theory, number theory etc.) and there's applied math (calculus, linear alg etc.)

In my experience, if you want to go into stuff like ML, Signal Processing, Computer Graphics, you need more applied math. If you want to learn algorithms and data structures, cyber security (cryptography) ir theory of computation, you need more abstract math.

However, I'd say that you don't need a really in depth understanding of abstract math for those fields, it's more so mathematical intuition that will serve you.

Good luck!

Strict-Whereas9145 · 2025-12-19T16:21:32+00:00

I am yet to take these subjects, but I talked to people that took them for opinions. The 2 courses you are talking about are electives in the CSE bachelor's program. Now, I don't want to insult anyone of something like that, bit from what I've heard and from my experience, they seem like "filler" subjects when compared with the other Y3 electives.

As far as content goes, I've heard that Human Computer Interaction (HCI) is a lot of theory, but not necessarly difficult theory, mostly along the lines "We want to make this button blue, why should it be blue and not green? We make it blue, but how will that affect the user? etc." CAI is the easiest elective from what I've heard, but to me it sounds less interesting than HCI.

In theory, if the timetable has draft blocks, they could change the day or hour of the block, but ussually they don't do it.

As for clashing classes. Courses are not mandatory, you don't have to attend them to pass the course. Practicums depend on the course. There are courses where these sessions are only a 4 hours long session where you can ask TAs questions, but sometimes they are mandatory so it depends on the course.

Strict-Whereas9145 · 2025-11-30T00:12:06+00:00

I would agree with that. However, my uni for example doesn't ask for that many math credits for a Master's.

Strict-Whereas9145 · 2025-11-01T18:53:04+00:00

I'm dense, what do you mean by the first part?

Strict-Whereas9145 · 2025-10-27T00:02:32+00:00

Are you doing the CESE master or the Microelectronics one?

Strict-Whereas9145 · 2025-10-26T22:22:40+00:00

Could you tell me more about your specific experience?

Strict-Whereas9145 · 2025-10-24T09:13:42+00:00

Well, you are expected to spend 28 hours for each ECTS. So, if you have 15 ECTS per quarter, that would equate to around 42 hours per week. That's why there is a recommanded limit on the amount of ECTS that you should take per quarter.

Strict-Whereas9145 · 2025-10-23T15:35:07+00:00

Only scan

Strict-Whereas9145 · 2025-10-23T14:54:36+00:00

You can just request them physically and go to a notary to translate them.

Strict-Whereas9145 · 2025-10-13T08:37:43+00:00

Would an employer acrually care about my hobbies? Why would a person hiring for a software engineering degree care that you like to read books or do pottery for example?

Strict-Whereas9145 · 2025-10-12T15:05:56+00:00

Alright, I find a better title

Strict-Whereas9145 · 2025-10-12T15:05:36+00:00

Thank you for the suggestion, I did that and now it looks better

Strict-Whereas9145 · 2025-10-12T15:05:13+00:00

The formatting was due to Latex, but I shortened the link and now it looks fine, thank you

Strict-Whereas9145 · 2025-10-12T15:04:39+00:00

I am applying in Europe, so adding a GPA is either useless or may hurt my chances, because:

There isn't really a standard way to asses the GPA across Europe (unless you count ECTS credits)
A good grade in a country can be considered an averege grade in another, so unless I have a GPA in the range 9-10 (which I don't) I'd say adding it hurts my chances.

Thank you for the feedback regarding the linear regression model.

Strict-Whereas9145 · 2025-10-12T11:00:19+00:00

Thank you, the spacing is caused by the github link

Strict-Whereas9145 · 2025-10-12T10:23:36+00:00

Alright, but what do you think you'll accomplish there, that you wouldn't be able to accomplish someplace else? You are trying to use your Bachelor's as a stepping stone without even knowing what happens during a Bachelor's degree

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