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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

March 1, 2010
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interviewer asked me about my research topics, including my problem formulation and methodology.

This part already took 10 minutes.

Then, they asked me to use Google Docs to write an algorithm that could pop out the top unique entries in a database with 100 billion entries.

Questions

Try to figure out the top unique search queries from a database with 100 billion entries.

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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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