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Software Development Engineer Interview Experience

April 1, 2015
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Phone Interview:

The interviewer was 20 minutes late and asked nothing about my resume.

Two questions were asked:

  1. A string consists of '0', '1', and '?'. The question mark can represent either '0' or '1'. Find all possible combinations for a string.
  2. Given a text file, remove duplicated lines. Follow-up: If the file is very large and a general hash map takes up too much space, come up with a better solution.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 111 interview experiences for the Google Software Development Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

10%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive57%
Neutral35%
Negative8%

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

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