First I applied for a test engineer position online, after several days, the recruiter called me to ask me whether I would change my position to search engineer for business search department (the core department of Baidu.com, most deal with algorithm and other challenge works). Then, about two or three days later, they arranged a on site interview for me. While the on-site interview, the interviewer is good (but do not smile at all : -)). He asked me some questions about Java multi-thread problems, DB questions, and some basic algorithm programming questions (write a method to convert a string); final question is about big data problem, the main idea of the question is to search some information through about 10G user action log file.

The interviewers were professional, friendly, and made me feel comfortable throughout the process. They tested the basic algorithm ability (leetcode mid). One aspect I liked was the emphasis on collaboration and communication. The interview felt more like a conversation rather than a strict Q&A