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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

February 1, 2018
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interview process began with a non-technical phone interview. This was followed by a coding challenge, then a technical phone interview, and finally an onsite interview.

For the most part, everyone was very nice and helpful.

However, during the onsite interview, one interviewer (onsites consist of four different people interviewing you individually) was very insistent that I solve the problem as a graph problem, despite that not seeming like a good solution to me.

The questions were hard but generally strongly rooted in the fundamentals.

Questions

Programming fundamental questions on memoization, dynamic programming, data structures, graph programming, etc.

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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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