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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Los Angeles, California

January 1, 2017
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Process

Straightforward and friendly.

I was given a coding challenge, but I overthought things a little bit because I was a little intimidated by the prestige of the company at the time. In hindsight, the questions weren't really that hard. Later, I went through the interview process again, and I got similar questions and did fine then.

My advice is mainly to try not to get nervous, because if they called you, they had a pretty good idea that you would probably be able to do the coding challenge. It will be reasonable after you take a second and think out the problem.

Worst case, put any assumptions in comments.

Questions

The question was effectively: implement a recursive search in BFS and then DFS manner.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 115 interview experiences for the Google Software Engineer role in Los Angeles, California.

Success Rate

10%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive65%
Neutral28%
Negative7%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Google's Software Engineer interview process in Los Angeles, California.

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