Software Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California
Process
Applied through a university recruiter and went through an online coding challenge, a phone screening, and then an onsite interview.
Recruiters were generally very responsive, but the entire process took a long time (about 3 months).
Signed an NDA, so I cannot disclose the questions in depth, but the following are brief rundowns of the questions.
Questions
Detecting string off-by-one errors, word construction from dice, and finding certain names within a given input.
Given a word of length n, and n six-sided dice with a character on each side, determine if this word is constructible by the set of given dice.
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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, but limited scopeSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeMountain View, California, United StatesDecember 18, 2022Pros: 1. Perfect WLB 2. Smart colleagues to work with 3. Friendly cultureCons: 1. Slow promotion 2. Limited scopes 3. Too many cancelled/deprioritized projects
- 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.
- 5.0Good Place, Worse FoodSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeMountain View, California, United StatesFebruary 28, 2024Pros: Good place to work at.Cons: Bad foods than before, I think.
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