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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

October 1, 2016
Negative ExperienceGot Offer

Process

Applied through an employee referral.

Had to complete a snapshot survey and an easy coding challenge, which consisted of two questions.

Received an onsite interview a week later.

I pretty much nailed the first three interviews, but had a terrible experience with the last interviewer. I guess it was meant to test stress response, but she literally gave me no guidelines for the questions. I asked a lot of questions and received no response, so in the end, I had to make any reasonable assumption that I could. The packet went to the hiring committee, but then they passed.

Questions

Graph Questions, Linked Lists, Recursion, and DP.

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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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