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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

February 1, 2015
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I received an email from a Google recruiter to start the interview process.

First, I completed a phone screen interview. Then, she scheduled me for a technical interview.

We communicated via Skype, and the interviewer provided me with a Google Docs link to solve the problems.

Questions

  1. Sorting a linked list.

  2. There are sticks with various lengths in a box. You can connect two sticks at a time, and the cost is the total length of the two sticks added. Write a program to figure out how to minimize the total cost to connect all of the sticks in a box.

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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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