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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

February 1, 2010
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

2 Telephonic Interviews.

I am an Electrical Engineering student with an RTOS/ARM background.

The first interview was conducted by an Electrical Engineer. He asked me questions about:

  • What an RTOS is
  • How to handle interrupts
  • Use of "static" in C and C++
  • An algorithms question on finding duplicates in an array

Questions

What is an RTOS?

How does it differ from a conventional OS?

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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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