Applications Engineer Interview Experience - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
November 1, 2018
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer
Process
A recruiter contacted me from LinkedIn.
Google then conducted four rounds of coding interviews on campus. Each interview was 50 minutes long, and the four rounds were back-to-back.
- Three rounds focused on data structures and algorithms.
- The last round covered application design.
The recruiter maintained constant communication via email and phone. They also shared a few preparation resources.
Questions
Data Structures:
- Strings
- Arrays
- 2D matrix
Design:
How would you design a ticketing platform?
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 2 interview experiences for the Google Applications Engineer role in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Success Rate
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Pass Rate
Google's interview process for their Applications Engineer roles in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Experience Rating
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Neutral100%
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Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Google's Applications Engineer interview process in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Pros: Very, very good experience.
Nice environment.
Cons: No cons I can think of.
5.0
Lots of benefits, good WLB
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Pros: Google provides a lot of benefits to its employees, like free food, gym, swimming pool, sleeping pods, massage, comprehensive health insurance, and 401K.
Work is mostly chill, although you need to have some launches in each 6-monthly perf review and be in the good books of your manager and TL to get a good rating.
Annual bonus, base increment, and stock refresher are tied to your perf rating.
Cons: You need to have two interview rounds if you want to switch to an SWE role.
The company has grown very big now, with 150k+ employees. This has brought with it a lot of bureaucracy and politics. So it would be great if you know how to navigate some of this.
There is this thing called golden handcuffs. You can become very attached to the benefits and work-life balance at the cost of not growing at a pace that you would at a startup.
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