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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

December 1, 2020
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

A recruiter reached out to me, and then we scheduled a phone interview.

The interviewer asked me a LeetCode question in the "hard" category, involving a greedy algorithm. I found and implemented a sub-optimal solution.

I then progressed to the on-site interview, where I was asked four coding questions and one behavioral question.

The coding questions were in the "medium" to "hard" category. I provided optimal solutions for three of them and an acceptable solution for the other.

The interviewers were helpful, and they seemed happy with my answers at the end. However, I wasn't sure if they had asked all the questions they had in mind.

My package went to the hiring committee, but last week, I was rejected without any feedback.

Questions

Medium and hard category LeetCode questions.

There are 2 greedy, 1 dynamic, 1 heap, and 1 hashmap questions. I cannot give more detail.

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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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