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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Chicago, Illinois

October 1, 2016
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Process

I was contacted after submitting my resume through their website. The recruiter was friendly and helpful, making sure I knew what to expect throughout the process.

After a technical phone interview, which involved answering a coding problem, I was asked to come in for an all-day set of interviews. This consisted of four whiteboard coding interviews and a design interview.

Around a week later, I was told that the interview committee had recommended hiring me. It was two weeks of back-and-forth with the recruiter before I received an offer.

The whole process, from first being contacted to receiving an offer, was around two months. This was expedited by the fact that I received a competing offer from another company after taking the phone interview.

Questions

The coding questions seemed intended to determine how I gathered necessary information, my problem-solving process, if I could notice errors in my code given some prompting (such as asking how a certain input would be handled), and the complexity of the solution. They weren't concerned with precise code so much as if I could communicate what I was doing.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 24 interview experiences for the Google Software Engineer role in Chicago, Illinois.

Success Rate

8%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive54%
Neutral38%
Negative8%

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

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