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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

January 25, 2016
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I talked with a recruiter who suggested a team to interview with. Following this, I had one phone screen, followed by five interviews on-site. The on-site interviews consisted of four data structure/algorithm questions and one system design question. It was a good mixture of question types.

Questions

Questions were twists on questions seen in most books and online resources.

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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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