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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

October 1, 2011
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I got the interview through campus recruiting.

The first round consisted of two onsite interviews, which included a tour of the office and an overview of the company. The second round involved three onsite interviews.

The interview itself was pleasant. I was offered breakfast or lunch, or both. I had the opportunity to talk to many people, and generally, everyone was very helpful. The questions ranged from manipulating arrays and linked lists to performing small code reviews.

Questions

Given two sorted integer arrays, write an algorithm to get the intersection.

Given the daily values of a stock, find how you can lose the most with one buy-sell trade.

Given a set of strings, a number 'n', and a function that takes a string and returns a score, find the n largest scored strings in the set.

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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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