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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

March 1, 2018
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Process

  1. Online assessment:

    • Two questions: one quite easy, one quite hard.
  2. Phone interview:

    • The easiest part, with two easy questions.
  3. Onsite:

    • Two rounds in the morning, followed by lunch, and then two more rounds.
  4. Team manager interview:

    • Not exactly an interview; mostly the manager introducing you to their team and talking you onboard.

Questions

I am not allowed to share specific questions, but the topics for my four rounds of onsite interviews are:

  • Trie tree & DFS
  • An easy linked list problem, followed by a modified knapsack DP
  • Tree/Graph shortest path problem using BFS
  • Data structure design (min/max heap + hashmap)

It was tough, but the interviewers were all very nice, and the overall experience was top-notch.

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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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