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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

July 1, 2020
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Process

Invitation email to interview.

45 minutes over the phone coding interview.

virtual onsite interview: 5, 45-minute sessions (4 technical, 1 behavioral).

The technical interviews were chill, but one expected exact graph algorithms definitions for the solutions and felt too much like a course midterm.

Questions

The behavioral questions asked of me were nothing like I had heard. They were like, "Tell me about a performance improvement you made in your program in detail," and then discussing the details of the work. There were 2-3 questions like this in total during the 45 minutes.

Ordinary questions looked like LeetCode easy 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

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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