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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

October 1, 2015
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Referred by an employee, directly onsite, no phone interview.

There were 4 rounds, all technical problems, mostly algorithm and data structure. A few fundamental CS questions and resume questions were asked.

All the coding problems were pretty new, and I had met similar ones in my previous coding exercises.

The questions were more flexible than at other companies:

  1. Design a data structure representing HTML (general tree design)
  2. Scalable matrix
  3. Math problem
  4. Regular expression matching

Questions

Design a data structure representing HTML (general tree design).

Scalable matrix.

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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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