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Software Development Engineer Interview Experience

March 1, 2015
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

This is a phone interview. Firstly, I was told to briefly talk about my working experience before my master's degree and my course project. Then, he asked some fundamental questions about binary search trees and hash tables and to compare their usage in different conditions. Finally, he asked two coding problems.

Questions

Write a function to determine if a string is a palindrome.

Write a class to calculate the average number of the current three numbers from the incoming numbers.

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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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