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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

February 1, 2011
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Process

I submitted my resume online and Google contacted me.

The first round consists of two back-to-back interviews on campus (my college, not Google).

The second round involves three back-to-back phone interviews.

My recruiter is very nice. I felt like she was working for me, not Google, to help me get the job.

Questions

Design a cloud that sorts petabytes of numbers. The range of numbers is large. How efficient is it? What is the Big O running time?

A Gmail user login. How do you store the account information so that it can be retrieved fast?

Write a PriorityQueue<E> with three methods: Insert(E element, int priority), E Pop(), Update(E element, int new_priority).

Write a stack that keeps track of min and max elements.

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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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