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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

December 1, 2015
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Reached out to a recruiter, who then followed up and set up a phone screen.

An interviewer had some technical difficulties. A few minutes later, we got started. We had to reshare the link.

The first question was not in my scope of knowledge. The interviewer was nice enough to explain the first problem but realized I was not familiar with the topic, so they switched questions.

The second question was related to binary trees, and the interviewer even told me that the majority of candidates did not know how to solve the problem.

Questions

Find if a given binary tree has duplicate subtrees.

(Just two leaf nodes of a parent do not count as a subtree in this question).

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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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