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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

August 1, 2014
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

5 in-house technical interviews.

4 algo/coding and 1 design.

  • strtok implementation.
  • Given a set of characters (duplicates possible) and a dictionary (list of words), find the longest word from the dictionary that can be made from the given characters. How will you do it if '*' (matches one wildcard character) is also included?
  • Access card system design.
  • Implement a stack with a find_min API as well.
  • Given a set of points, find the line with the maximum number of points on it.
  • UTF-8 byte stream verification and character extraction.

Questions

The most difficult part is judging what interviewers want who don't talk that much and just keep on scribbling stuff down.

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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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