Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience - New York, New York
Process
I was brought into the New York City office for five forty-five minute problem sessions.
One session was with two interviewers, and the other four were with a single interviewer.
In each session, I was asked to solve a technical problem, writing my software solution onto a whiteboard. The program needed to be complete enough to actually run.
I was not able to completely solve all five of the technical problems I was given.
Questions
Build a program to play a computer game.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 16 interview experiences for the Google Senior Software Engineer role in New York, New York.
Success Rate
Google's interview process for their Senior Software Engineer roles in New York, New York is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Google's Senior Software Engineer interview process in New York, New York.
Google Work Experiences
- 5.0Smart People, Politics, PerksSenior Software Engineer • Current EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesMarch 26, 2016Pros: Lives up to the hype. Super smart people. Awesome perks. Pays well. As an engineer, lots of choices – can switch teams and offices with relative ease.Cons: No one is perfect. No company is perfect. There are great people and there are jerks. There are great managers and a bunch of not-so-great ones. If you go in thinking this is some utopia that doesn't have politics and bureaucracy, you'll get disillusioned really fast. And it's a company full of overachievers, so it's hard to maintain work-life balance if you want to keep up with your peers – unless you explicitly force yourself to only work a certain amount.
- 4.0It's Google, so what did you expect?Senior Software Engineer • Current EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesSeptember 15, 2022Pros: It's Google; cool office, good free food, good benefits, decent pay, nice people.Cons: Google is massive today, so processes and tech platforms are overly complicated and hard to get stuff done. This is because it's all done at scale and the learning curve is huge.
- 1.0Great Pay, Terrible CultureSenior Software Engineer • Current EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesAugust 24, 2021Pros: Good pay and great food.Cons: Horrible culture, slow processes, dying soul.
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