Software Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California
Process
The process consisted of multiple phone interviews, followed by being flown in for a day of interviews at the Mountain View Campus in California.
Interviews consisted entirely of receiving coding/algorithm questions and then coding a solution in Google Docs (for the phone interviews) or on a whiteboard.
The hardest part was staying sharp and solving these questions for a whole day, which involved 4-5 interviews.
Questions
The questions were under NDA.
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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
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
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Google's Software Engineer interview process in Mountain View, California.
Google Work Experiences
- 5.0Great company to work with, but don't abuse itSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeMountain View, California, United StatesNovember 20, 2008Pros: Food, message, offsites, endless perks. Great coworkers, interesting products, and technologies.Cons: Getting less Googley over time.
- 5.0Excellent working environmentSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeMountain View, California, United StatesDecember 7, 2021Pros: Great coding culture. Excellent working environment.Cons: Extremely competitive and too many talented people.
- 4.0Great, but slowly gravitating toward just goodSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeMountain View, California, United StatesJune 11, 2008Pros: Very friendly culture, incredible access to practically all company information, great people to work with and learn from. With thousands of users every second, almost nothing is trivial, so work tends to never be boring. The work process is very professional. Of course, just getting to build stuff on Google's awesome infrastructure (both hw and sw) might also be considered interesting :)Cons: Well, my salary is not particularly high. Some of the perks listed are just subsidized, and some are not even that. Also, there seems to be a slight trend toward money-oriented decision-making, slowly eroding Google's 'Googliness' factor.
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