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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Cambridge, Massachusetts

October 1, 2015

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

It was an onsite interview for a full-time position in software engineering.

There were four 45-minute interviews and lunch with an engineer in the middle.

All four questions involved coding on the whiteboard, and all the questions were (unsurprisingly) related to algorithms and data structures, Big O notation, et cetera.

Questions

Write an algorithm to create an ordered list from the union of ordered sublists.

Write an algorithm to generate all unique possible letter racks in Scrabble.

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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.

Google Work Experiences

Stable and fulfilling

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Pros: The experience at Google is highly dependent on your working group. Mine is particularly awesome: super smart and kind teammates, interesting product work, excellent team culture. Benefits and pay are amazing, as people know.

Cons: Executive leadership is sketchy. HR is evil in a lot of ways. The workforce is predominately.

Stable and fulfilling

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Pros: The experience at Google is highly dependent on your working group. Mine is particularly awesome: super smart and kind teammates, interesting product work, excellent team culture. Benefits and pay are amazing, as people know.

Cons: Executive leadership is sketchy. HR is evil in a lot of ways. The workforce is predominately.

Requests everything from you, but provides for all your needs

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

January 25, 2017

Pros: Smart and hardworking people all around you, interesting projects. Unparalleled level of technical support for any possible needs. Fantastic benefits. In the end, it's more of a lifestyle than just a workplace.

Cons: Pressure of going "up or out." Huge difference between working in Mountain View versus any other office.

Requests everything from you, but provides for all your needs

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

January 25, 2017

Pros: Smart and hardworking people all around you, interesting projects. Unparalleled level of technical support for any possible needs. Fantastic benefits. In the end, it's more of a lifestyle than just a workplace.

Cons: Pressure of going "up or out." Huge difference between working in Mountain View versus any other office.

Fun and exciting

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

October 18, 2013

Pros: Lots of smart people, free food.

Cons: Can't think of any cons.

Fun and exciting

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

October 18, 2013

Pros: Lots of smart people, free food.

Cons: Can't think of any cons.

Stable and fulfilling

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Pros: The experience at Google is highly dependent on your working group. Mine is particularly awesome: super smart and kind teammates, interesting product work, excellent team culture. Benefits and pay are amazing, as people know.

Cons: Executive leadership is sketchy. HR is evil in a lot of ways. The workforce is predominately.

5.0
Stable and fulfilling
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
March 4, 2021
Pros: The experience at Google is highly dependent on your working group. Mine is particularly awesome: super smart and kind teammates, interesting product work, excellent team culture. Benefits and pay are amazing, as people know.
Cons: Executive leadership is sketchy. HR is evil in a lot of ways. The workforce is predominately.

Requests everything from you, but provides for all your needs

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

January 25, 2017

Pros: Smart and hardworking people all around you, interesting projects. Unparalleled level of technical support for any possible needs. Fantastic benefits. In the end, it's more of a lifestyle than just a workplace.

Cons: Pressure of going "up or out." Huge difference between working in Mountain View versus any other office.

4.0
Requests everything from you, but provides for all your needs
Software Engineer • Former Employee
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
January 25, 2017
Pros: Smart and hardworking people all around you, interesting projects. Unparalleled level of technical support for any possible needs. Fantastic benefits. In the end, it's more of a lifestyle than just a workplace.
Cons: Pressure of going "up or out." Huge difference between working in Mountain View versus any other office.

Fun and exciting

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

October 18, 2013

Pros: Lots of smart people, free food.

Cons: Can't think of any cons.

5.0
Fun and exciting
Software Engineer • Former Employee
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
October 18, 2013
Pros: Lots of smart people, free food.
Cons: Can't think of any cons.

Google Interview Questions

Two Sum

Find two numbers in a given array that add up to a specific target value, and return their indices. Essentially, you need to efficiently locate the pair that satisfies the sum requirement.

Palindrome Number

Determine whether an integer is a palindrome. That is, it reads the same forwards and backward.

Bit Manipulation

Add Two Numbers

You are given two linked lists, each representing a non-negative integer. Add the two numbers and return the sum as a linked list.

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