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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Cambridge, Massachusetts

January 1, 2015
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

One phone screen featured live Google Docs coding.

This screen involved questions on writing simple code for a simple problem.

On-site, the interviews were much harder and longer, with five interviews covering a wide variety of problems. Topics included:

  • Graphs
  • Multidimensional arrays
  • Trees
  • OO design and testing
  • Encoding/decoding

The interview process seemed disorganized, with some interviewers missing or arriving late.

Questions

One that is easy to describe:

  • Run-length encoding/decoding
  • Bilinear interpolation
  • Game of Life
  • Find if a path exists through two points in a graph, given a bunch of unidirectional edges.
  • Finding if a path down a tree exists.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 28 interview experiences for the Google Software Engineer role in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Success Rate

21%
Pass Rate

Google's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Cambridge, Massachusetts is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive61%
Neutral21%
Negative18%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Google's Software Engineer interview process in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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