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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

April 1, 2016
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I received the response from HR two days after submitting my application on the company career website. The phone screen involved a programming problem that was easy to solve with recursion. Starting with a vague problem statement, I needed to ask the interviewer questions to clarify it, a process that is also applicable to the on-site interview. The on-site interview was well-organized. While it was a bit annoying to spend a lot of time traveling from the East Coast to the West Coast and then back again, the interview itself was a good experience. The questions were not as hard as I had expected, but I still made a mistake on the last one, and I was almost exhausted by the end of the day.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 748 interview experiences for the Google Software Engineer role in Mountain View, California.

Success Rate

20%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive64%
Neutral23%
Negative14%

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

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