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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

May 1, 2016
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

It was pretty much the process you'd have heard about. However, the process stretched a little longer than usual for me because after my onsite interviews, they had me do additional phone screens for a different position.

The interviewers were all very polite. If they thought I was as stupid as I felt, they definitely didn't show it.

It took a little over two weeks to hear back, but the upcoming holiday was in part to blame.

Questions

Given an array of distinct integers, sorted as first increasing and then decreasing. Find the maximum number in it.

Given a coffee maker with three buttons, and each one will dispense an amount somewhere within given ranges. Write a function that will determine if any combination of buttons is guaranteed to dispense a supplied amount.

How would you design StubHub?

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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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