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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

October 1, 2016
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Process

The interview process consists of one round of phone interview, followed by four rounds of on-site interviews.

The engineers are nice and will provide clues if you get stuck.

Be ready to dive deep into the details of your resume and projects.

Questions

Q: List all comments in the given segment of code.

Q: How to deal with real-time data streams.

Q: Find the absolute paths to all directories with image files, given a file system that looks like:

/usr /local profile.jpg /bin config.txt dest.png /rbin image.gif /sys /re /tmp pic.jpg ... ...

Phone screen Q: String encoding and decoding: Design a method that converts a list of strings into a single string which can be later converted back to the list.

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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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