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Engineering Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

September 1, 2010
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Phone screen was good, done via Google Docs. All about trees. Interview consisted of several whiteboard-problem solving sessions; more trees, hash-tables. 6 interviews in total. 4 went well, 2 not so well. Last 2 were with people with very poor interpersonal skills... not sure if that was part of the test... I would not have accepted an offer anyway due to (a) location [Mountain View is very expensive, I found out while visiting], (b) office layout [everyone is crammed in to very small places], (c) attitude of last 2 interviewers.... What if one of those was my boss? And the food wasn't that great :)

Questions

Explain how a debugger works.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 13 interview experiences for the Google Engineering role in Mountain View, California.

Success Rate

31%
Pass Rate

Google's interview process for their Engineering roles in Mountain View, California is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive46%
Neutral31%
Negative23%

Candidates reported having good feelings for Google's Engineering interview process in Mountain View, California.

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