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Resident Engineer Interview Experience

May 16, 2017
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Process

The interview process started with an initial "take-home" coding challenge. Following that were three technical phone interviews. Each interview was about 45 minutes long. The last two interviews were conducted back-to-back over a span of about 2 hours.

The process ended with a final 45-minute video interview, which was conducted over Google Hangouts. This interview involved a mix of technical and personal questions. My specific video interviewer said up front that the interview would focus more on technical questions, but your mileage may vary.

Questions

I was asked not to share details about interview questions, but topics covered included:

  • Bit-level representations of integers
  • Structures for efficiently storing strings
  • Building a simple parser/interpreter

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 27 interview experiences for the Google Resident Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

26%
Pass Rate

Google's interview process for their Resident Engineer roles in the United States is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive67%
Neutral19%
Negative15%

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

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