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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

June 1, 2012
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Phone Call Onsite 5 interviews

Questions were okay, mostly algorithm-based. Practice on a whiteboard and try to solve problems a lot. There is a book by Career Cup that can be helpful. Apart from that, I guess it will depend on your experience.

Questions

NP-Hard 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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