Engineering Residency Interview Experience - Mountain View, California
Process
The interview process was straightforward. I completed a coding challenge, followed by two back-to-back technical interviews conducted over Google Hangouts.
I received positive feedback, but the company had reached its headcount capacity and therefore could not extend an offer.
Questions
Given a list of dominoes (represented as tuples), what is the longest row of dominoes that you can place down such that adjacent sides of neighboring dominoes have the same label?
An example list of dominoes is [(0,3), (3,1), (2,1), (4,0)] and a valid row would be [(0,3), (3,1), (1,2)].
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Google Engineering Residency role in Mountain View, California.
Success Rate
Google's interview process for their Engineering Residency roles in Mountain View, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Google's Engineering Residency interview process in Mountain View, California.
Google Work Experiences
- 4.0Big possibilities, but the work is difficultSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeMountain View, California, United StatesFebruary 13, 2017Pros: Good salary. Comfortable office and great benefits. Smart people around.Cons: Bad work/life balance. A lot of bureaucracy.
- 5.0Best Company to Work ForTest Engineer • Current EmployeeMountain View, California, United StatesFebruary 13, 2018Pros: Best Company to Work For.Cons: You need to be ready to work with completely new technologies.
- 5.0Great place to work at as an FTE, but definitely not as a contractorSoftware QA Test Engineer • Current EmployeeMountain View, California, United StatesFebruary 2, 2023Pros: Great benefits, like free food (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) and access to multiple gyms. Diversity is a huge thing at Google and is taken seriously. Google has great cultures and values. Great work-life balance, definitely the best compared to other big tech companies. Google helps its employees a lot in learning and pushing your skills to the next level. Contractors do sometimes have an opportunity to get converted to full-time employees, depending on the department and project they are working on.Cons: Contractors do get treated differently, like second-class citizens. A lot of research projects, especially at Google X, have a high chance of suddenly getting shut down without prior notice. Everyone on the project (full-time and contractors) gets laid off without any help or chance to move to a different role/project inside Google.
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