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Software Development Engineer (SDE) Interview Experience

May 1, 2022
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Process

The interview process was pretty welcoming. The interviewer process felt more like collaboration to solve a problem, instead of asking you a really hard question and just seeing you fail.

Questions

  1. Robot log deduplication: The task is to deduplicate the same log information, which is generated multiple times within a set time window (e.g., 30 seconds).

  2. Car control: You can give commands "accelerate" and "decelerate" to a car. Given a distance, return the shortest command sequence to reach that distance.

  3. Card games: This is the easiest question. The most efficient solution involves a basic two-layer for-loop, checking the winning condition (based on hard-coded rules) in every iteration.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 61 interview experiences for the Google Software Development Engineer (SDE) role in United States.

Success Rate

7%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive61%
Neutral28%
Negative11%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Google's Software Development Engineer (SDE) interview process in United States.

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