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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

March 1, 2016
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied through a referral, and I was able to skip an initial phone screening.

It's a pretty standard interview, but it's a long day.

There were four rounds of pretty technical questions, but I definitely overestimated the difficulty. I got caught on a question since I forgot how to reverse a linked list, but I never felt rushed or pressured.

I've been told that it's really important to have one interviewer really impressed, rather than a few who merely pass.

Questions

Write a deserialize and serialize method for an array of strings.

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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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