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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

August 1, 2012
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I had 6 or 7 interviewers in a row, and they all asked algorithmic questions, school-book style. Nothing about my past experience was discussed; all the questions were puzzle-like, covering topics such as sorting, lookup, hashing, and multi-threading. The entire process seemed targeted towards fresh graduates.

After the day of interviews, I felt I had performed quite well. I checked online to see if my solutions were acceptable, and they were. Therefore, I was pretty confident I would receive an offer. However, I was wrong, and they didn't provide any real feedback as to why they didn't select me.

Questions

All was expected, but it seemed like they didn't appreciate the thinking and getting to the answer; they wanted the answer right away.

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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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