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Software Developer Interview Experience

March 1, 2014
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Codility (online programming test) assessment + phone interview.

The question was easy enough, but it was horrible trying to write production code in a Google Doc in 5-10 minutes.

He went through all the corner cases, such as an empty string, and kept poking holes in my code.

Fair is fair, and I never thought it would be easy. I am pretty sure I won't make it to the next round, although I didn't get the result.

Questions

First, they sent a coding assessment on Codility which had two questions.

One was to return the number formed by interleaving the decimal digits of two numbers.

Then, during the phone interview, I was asked to serialize and deserialize a vector of strings in C++.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 211 interview experiences for the Google Software Developer role in United States.

Success Rate

6%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive64%
Neutral28%
Negative8%

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

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