Software Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California
Process
After contacting a recruiter, I went through a phone interview.
The interviewer asked a couple of questions about tree traversal and string matching.
Afterwards, I was put in touch with another recruiter to take me through the on-site interview process.
I arrived on the Mountain View campus and went through five interviews with different engineers.
Questions
Among the questions:
- Given an MxN matrix, determine whether a path can be drawn through every node in the matrix such that the end node is next to the start node, and each node is only touched once.
- A n-child tree traversal problem.
- Array search and sort problems.
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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
- 4.0Still a good place to work!Software Engineer • Current EmployeeMountain View, California, United StatesMarch 26, 2025Pros: Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies. Extremely talented co-workers.Cons: Lot of bureaucracy. The performance process has too much overhead.
- 4.0Great Balance, Tough JobSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeMountain View, California, United StatesDecember 14, 2022Pros: Good for work-life and life balance.Cons: Hard to do the job
- 5.0Great Perks, Supportive TeamSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeMountain View, California, United StatesMarch 5, 2023Pros: Best perks and benefits and coworkersCons: High chance of having imposter syndrome.
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