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Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience - New York, New York

September 1, 2014
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I had two recruiters during the process. Both were nice, and the interviewers were generally pleasant.

Consider it a collaborative effort to solve interesting problems.

I went through almost every stage, but somehow did not get the final VP's blessing. The recruiter could not tell me why.

Questions

Basic stuff:

Relatively practical problems often use stacks, queues, and binary search. None are expected here.

Examples include:

  • Maximum points on a line given a list of coordinates.
  • 3Sum variants, such as finding if a+b+c < target for integers in a given unsorted array.
  • Reverse Polish Notation (RPN).

Some design questions were touched upon, including consistent hashing.

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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

6%
Pass 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

Positive50%
Neutral31%
Negative19%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Google's Senior Software Engineer interview process in New York, New York.

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