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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

March 1, 2009
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Had a phone interview with a software engineer.

He asked me how to decrypt a dictionary and how multithreading can help make the process faster.

Questions

Given a dictionary of words, decrypt it using a given decrypt() function.

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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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