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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

August 1, 2018
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Process

Position: University Graduate, Full-time.

Process:

  • 90-minute coding sample (2 problems)
  • Onsite (4 interviews)
  • Hiring committee
  • Team matching
  • Offer

Preparation: ~150 LeetCode problems over the summer and practiced with a friend on a whiteboard a couple of hours a day for two weeks.

I explained my thoughts out loud and drew pictures/examples on the board, asking my interviewers if they were following my ideas. Sometimes they would give me hints or point out flaws in my ideas. Once they liked it, I would write the code on the board and go through some examples.

Advice: The interviewers and recruiters are on your side.

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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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