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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

February 1, 2011
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

A recruiter emailed me to ask if I was interested in their company, and I replied "yes" with my resume attached.

Coordinators emailed me to schedule phone interviews, and the interviewers called me for phone interviews.

In the first phone interview, it seemed they put me in the wrong position. Someone from the hardware department called me, while I am a backend application software engineer. The second and third interviewers asked me technical questions, but I did not make it through.

Questions

Design a class to process a matrix. It needs to be able to return the average for the elements of an arbitrary sub-rectangle inside that matrix, in constant time.

Design a class to serialize/deserialize a graph.

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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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