Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience - New York, New York
Process
I was able to skip the phone interview due to a friend's recommendation, but typically, you will be screened by phone.
Your on-site interview will be a full day, and you will be quizzed by 4-5 developers. You will be asked technical questions and be asked to write some programs on a whiteboard.
These will tend to be computer science-type problems:
- Convex Hull
- String manipulation
- List manipulation
- And so on.
Questions
Develop a solution to convex hull and state its complexity.
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Google Work Experiences
- 4.0L5 to L6 Scope is VanishingSenior Software Engineer • Current EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesJune 1, 2025Pros: Great work-life balance on average (Ads and GenAI teams are worse, though). Great colleagues. Great technical support and focus.Cons: You start to become rusty at Google. L5 to L6 scope is becoming very limited. Pay increase is slow.
- 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.
- 5.0That was a nice placeSenior Software Engineer • Former EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesJanuary 26, 2024Pros: Salary, clean office, amiable colleagues, flexible work schedule, and other perks.Cons: Highly proprietary systems, minimal supervision, questionable work-life balance, brutal competition.
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