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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

May 1, 2013
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interview process began with a technical phone screen, followed by an onsite interview in Mountain View.

Most of the people I met were quite pleasant.

I interviewed with five engineers during the onsite. The last one, however, seemed less impressed with my performance. This was likely the reason I did not receive an offer.

The majority of the questions focused on algorithms, though a few touched upon more general internet-related topics.

Questions

The phone screen question was something along the lines of coding a function that would validate an IP address.

Determine the Big-O for a Fibonacci sequence. Rewrite the function so that it was O(n).

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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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