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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

February 1, 2015
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Extremely organized and professional.

Employee referred to recruiting staff.

Recruiting member conducted a phone interview and described the process.

Passed the phone interview, leading to the on-site interview.

Recruiter explained the process and sent suggested study material (did not study enough).

Recruiter set up an optional interview training (which was completed).

Trial interview with a mentor (which was completed).

On-site interview for one full day with four individuals, each session lasting one hour, plus lunch.

As people have said, the interview questions require you to think and know your data structures cold.

Questions

Given a genealogy tree with multiple roots and intersecting nodes, write a program to determine if two arbitrary children are related.

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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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