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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

February 1, 2015
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I was contacted by a university recruiter.

I had three phone interviews and one coaching session.

Finally, I had an on-site interview.

During my on-site interview, I was asked four questions on these areas:

  • Hashing
  • Caches
  • Compilers
  • Graphs
  • Distributed algorithms

Questions

What was one of your professional achievements?

In an array of integers, return the smallest positive integer that is not in the array.

Reverse a string.

Reverse only characters in odd positions in a string.

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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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