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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

October 1, 2015
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Process:

  1. Resume Shortlisting
  2. Emails for signing NDA, Project Interests, Preferred Location
  3. Two 45-minute back-to-back phone interviews
  4. Selected/Not Selected Email.

Details of Technical Interviews:

First Telephonic Interview: She just said one line that she was calling from Google-MTV and works for Google Search. Period. No more, no less. She was sounding a bit frustrated and it appeared as if she didn't want to speak. When I was giving the most optimal solution (I knew it was, having solved that same problem previously), she seemed to say nothing. I asked her twice whether I should code it up, but she preferred not to answer, so I jumped into coding it on the shared doc. After finishing the solution quickly, she just said that she was done and asked if I wanted to ask some questions. I was feeling terrible by her behavior by this time, so I just said NO. She hung up the phone afterward, just saying OK.

Second Interview: He was a cool guy, and for the first 10 minutes, he mentioned about himself and told me that he works for Google Wallet and his previous work experience. He asked me two algorithmic questions and was satisfied and impressed with my solutions.

Questions

NDA signed. Sorry

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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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