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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

January 1, 2017
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

This was for a university graduate.

I was contacted by a recruiter two weeks after presenting my resume at a university career fair. I was asked to provide my transcripts and a summary of my interests.

Following that, I was given an online coding test to solve a week later. This test involved solving two questions in 60 minutes.

  • The first question was simple and the second was slightly more difficult.
  • I solved the first question and managed to only complete half of the second question, but I documented my strategy.

A few days later, I was contacted that I would be moving on to the phone interview stage. This phone interview involved coding on a Google Doc whilst talking with the interviewer over the phone.

  • The first question was a warm-up and the second was a design/implementation question.

Two days later, I was contacted to move on for the on-site interviews. I had four technical interviews plus one lunch interview.

After two weeks, I was contacted with their decision.

Questions

Coding Sample:

  • Two questions on string manipulation

Phone Interview:

  • My solution involved using binary search

On-Site Interview:

  • Dynamic Programming
  • Binary search
  • Object Design/Implementation
  • Array manipulation

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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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