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Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience

March 15, 2013
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

They called me up after seeing my LinkedIn profile. It took a while to set up because it was near the holidays, but they arranged a phone screening interview, then an onsite interview.

Both were what I have come to know as typical Google interviews. Technical coding questions, questions with several possible answers, but only one 'best' answer.

I made a lot of dumb mistakes, like leaving return statements off the end of functions even though I had gotten the main body of the function accurately, and I was quite nervous, which didn't help. They were mostly nice, although a few of them seemed resentful that they had to be running an interview.

Questions

They asked me a computer vision question that involved needing to compute the integral image, which took me a while to dredge up out of deep storage.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 168 interview experiences for the Google Senior Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

10%
Pass Rate

Google's interview process for their Senior Software Engineer roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive50%
Neutral24%
Negative26%

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

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