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Engineering Resident Interview Experience

November 1, 2015
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I was initially contacted at the end of October inquiring about a phone interview. I responded to a few questions regarding my availability and asked about any deadlines they needed to be aware of, as well as a few other standard questions.

I was contacted a few days later to set up my phone interview, and they later scheduled my second phone interview to immediately follow the first. This was likely because I had another interview with a different company, so they felt a need to speed up my process.

From the time of the initial contact to the phone interview itself was 12 days.

Now, for the interview itself.

It involved coding in Google Docs. The first interviewer was helpful and willing to give guidance despite my struggles. He seemed enthusiastic about his job and had a positive attitude, which made the experience more bearable. He was very willing to answer questions at the end of the interview, even though we went over the allotted time.

The second interviewer was mostly silent, not very supportive, and kept asking if I was finished. My interview was cut short without much explanation. Due to a combination of fatigue and disgust, I chose not to ask any questions to the second interviewer.

Hopefully, you will have interviewers more like my first one, and not like the second.

Questions

You'll want to know about data structures and algorithms: how they work, their implementation, etc.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 11 interview experiences for the Google Engineering Resident role in United States.

Success Rate

45%
Pass Rate

Google's interview process for their Engineering Resident roles in the United States is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive73%
Neutral18%
Negative9%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Google's Engineering Resident interview process in United States.

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