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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Cambridge, Massachusetts

June 1, 2011
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

There were four "interviews":

  • A phone screen with a recruiter.
  • Another phone screen with a more local recruiter.
  • A first round of interviews on-site.
  • A longer interview on-site afterward.

All of the in-person interviews were whiteboard, conversation style, where I wrote functions/code to illustrate my answers.

Questions

All were puzzle-type questions.

Many books can help prepare you for this kind of thing.

I don't have a specific one in mind.

I would not say that they were trick questions in any way; they were more algorithm-based.

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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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