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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

June 1, 2015
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Google conducts five interviews hosted by developers across various teams.

You meet with your recruiter in the morning and complete a couple of interviews. You then have lunch with an engineer and finish the remaining interviews in the afternoon.

The primary focus at Google is on computer science expertise. I was asked very few questions about prior experience or what sort of roles I was looking for.

The interviews continue to expand in scope, so you typically use all the allotted time, leaving little to no time for questions at the end.

Questions

Provide an architectural design for a mobile app that allows multiple players to play poker both directly connected to each other and via a cloud-based service. Figure out how to handle the logistical issues of handshaking with other clients and how you would handle synchronization between the various clients and the server.

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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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